Joe Bageant: We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls — It’s Time to Do Something Meaningful

“As university students, you are among the 20 percent or so of Americans indoctrinated and conditioned to be the administrating and operating class of the American empire in some form or another, in the business of managing the other 75 percent in innumerable ways. Psychologists, teachers, lawyers, social workers, doctors, accountants, sociologists, mental health workers, clergy — all are in the business of coordinating and managing the greater mass of working-class citizenry by the empire’s approved methods, and toward the same end: Maximum profitability for a corporate-based state. Yet it all seems so normal. Certainly the psychologists who have prescribed so much Prozac that it now shows up in the piss of penguins, saw what they did as necessary” – Bageant from a speech to the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago .. read more

 

 

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