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Another important article on a critical gear in the corporate machine. I know it’s important because the urge to hide under the bed just keeps getting stronger. The prison complex takes one section of our society, while the takeover of our minds through the erosion of education takes another, though far more stealthily. The 1978 version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” took this issue on directly and so cleverly. It may be too late to save the universities. I grew up in shadow of UC Berkeley. As a child I dreamed of going there. But by the ninth grade I understood what its real role was in society and left formal schools forever.

“A university education is a wonderful thing provided that you remember nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

Oscar Wilde.

I fooled them. I let them have their stifling academy. True learning happens when we teach ourselves. We’ll keep our freedom so long as we retain our curiosity, and our library cards.

And so long as we can keep reading Chris Hedges.

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Chris, you have so eloquently explained what I have seen happen over the past 50 years since I graduated from college in 1969. Although I did not want to go further in my higher education, I know friends who did. I saw higher education get more & more expensive, with the state, NY in this case, stop spending less & less to help out. I had a Regents Scholarship, which paid for my tuition for 4 years, at the cost of $400 per year. That's laughable now! A state school costs about $10 grand per year now for tuition! I kept wondering where all the money was going. Now I know.

I watched Democracy Now the other day interview one of the few tenured professors from Rutgers talk about the strike at the college. I hope that you win!

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