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JonathanBoyerFirstPaper 8 - 03 May 2010 - Main.JonathanBoyer
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*READY FOR REVIEW* | | | After all, it's just a ride, it's just a ride -- no need to run, no need to hide. Sooner or later, it all comes crashing down, and when you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to loose -- you're invisible now; you got no secrets to conceal. And when I'm at the pearly gates, this'll be on my videotape. It all might seem dumb . . . or maybe just happy -- I think I'm just happy.
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< | Might apathy be a kind of subjective happiness that merits a path of completely free pursuit, or are these just dumb people who lack the positive liberty to know better? In other words, should this Nirvana-esque retreat to an inner citadel remain free of paternalistic impediments, as a kind of negative liberty, or must one be educated and protected against any tendency to "go too far, contract [one]self into too small a space, [where one] shall suffocate and die"? Regardless of the side chosen in this debate, and withstanding the Kantian axiom that paternalism is the greatest despotism imaginable, it is an inescapable reality that compulsive education is a societal imperative -- to a debatable extent of course: | >
> | Might apathy be a kind of subjective happiness that merits a path of no resistance, or are these just dumb people who lack the positive liberty to know better? In other words, should this Nirvana-esque retreat to an inner citadel remain free of paternalistic impediments, as a kind of negative liberty, or must one be educated and protected against any tendency to "go too far, contract [one]self into too small a space, [where one] shall suffocate and die"? Regardless of the side chosen in this debate, and withstanding the Kantian axiom that paternalism is the greatest despotism imaginable, it is an inescapable reality that compulsive education is a societal imperative -- to a debatable extent of course: | | | "Children cannot be expected to understand why they are compelled to go to school, nor the ignorant [or dumb] - that is, for the moment, the majority of mankind - why they are made to obey the laws that will presently make them rational. 'Compulsion is also a kind of education." . . . You want to be a human being. It is the aim of the state to satisfy your wish. 'Compulsion is justified by education for future insight.'" |
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