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Ouch!
Unless you are a believer in multi-dimensional possible universes, I think you’d have to accept they’re all facing the same future, so it shouldn’t be “futures”
Sorry to be picky….
Otherwise agree. Gove’s views on education are disgraceful. By the mere act of being selected for a safe Tory seat he seems somehow to have become our most learned & pre-eminent historian.
You may well be right….
It does seem a little odd that we handicap ourselves in selecting the people to fill some of the country’s most important jobs by making the only necessary and sufficient qualification to be that they have won a parliamentary election or have accrued, often by dubious means, some form of peerage. Moreover ‘we’ don’t actually select anyone for that is the task of the minority themselves. Hardly the system to maximise the benefit of the talent available throughout the population.
I would suggest that Gove’s as most learned and pre-eminent historian was comprehensively demolished by Tristram Hunt.
Exactly, so that once again the lions may be led to their slaughter by donkeys.
The Donkey in charge of the Department of Education wants to re-write history, because it is critical of elites….
What else can we expect from an Education Secretary that takes advice from social darwinists?
Indeed Martin, all this stuff is supported by dubious and dumbed down darwinism which is skewed so as to fit the cultural preferences of the financial system. It’s not by chance that Dawkin’s ‘Selfish gene’ book came out at a time when neo-liberalism was emergent (1976). Since then we’ve had all sorts of justification of crony capitalism as a variant of the ‘survival of the fittest’. Boris Johnson added to this moronic guff recently. neo-liberalism thrives on simplistic, one-dimensional explanations of reality that suit a certain area of vested interests which are then packaged as ‘truth’. They now people are tired and stressed and haven’t got the time or energy to think about things further than the vacuus sound bites of condescending and greasy politicians.
You can’t escape the irony that, after centuries of in-breeding, the ruling classes are now accusing the lower classes of ‘genetic inferiority’.
But on a more serious note I’m trying to recall when a political class created gross pejorative caricatures of a social group, then accused them of genetic inferiority…
Ah, yes, I remember, Germany, 1930’s…
It would be even more worrying if we were approaching an epoch of food and fresh water scarcity…