LARGE CLASS, MAD DISCOURSE: SAME
ROOTS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Magandang
hapon! Good afternoon!
Classes
have resumed here in Manila/Philippines, and our campuses are again swarming
with pupils, students, teachers. Focused on their tasks, the same stakeholders
are barely aware of what’s going on in the world around them, a world that is
changing fast at confusing rate.
While
the rugs under our feet our changing, the old context of large classes (class
sizes of 100-250) are still in vogue in many universities worldwide. Some other
universities that may have abolished them in the past, are re-instituting the
large class platform.
As
I’ve said in a previous article, the large class platform belongs to the past
ages of medievalism and industrialism. To implement it now, at this time, is a
regressive decision.
The
large class, which unconsciously glues students to the ‘Herd instinct’, is
anathema to the overall evolutionary movement of the human psyche towards
greater individuation. University education is supposedly an opportunity field
for the flourishing of that individuation.
The
‘mad discourse’ is finding expression in many venues today. The large class
platform feeds inputs to the mad discourse, and is subtly rooted in it in fact.
Its rationale hides under the rubric of technocratese language, but any sharp
observer will easily unveil the illusion and show the large class platform’s
connection to the ‘mad discourse’.
Imagine
if all students are subjected to the same large classes, where they cannot air
feedbacks or questions at all as they are consigned to passive receivers of
inputs from a lecture professor. Imagine exposing freshmen students to this
platform for 4-5 years, and assess the degeneration of the same students into
the hovels of passivity.
Such
a regimentation is just but one step short of what the Phase III cybernetics is
up to these days: chipping humans. Phase III cybernetics had worked out to
erase the dividing line between human behavior and machine behavior, with
practical uses aimed at chipping all humans in the future.
The
same chipped humans can then be put under the control of mega-computer systems,
their behavior eventually reprogrammable to make them more in tune with what
the System demands. They can be sent to war fronts as armies and technicians,
and will experience no fear as fear will be deleted or subjugated by
mega-control commands from their own psyche.
Wars
and police states of the near future will be easily justified with every
technocratese language conceivable, rendering them as typical ‘mad discourse’
in the argot of Michel Foucault. Mad, in that the erasure of the boundary
between reason and the irrational has been effectively erased or deleted.
If
there is anything that university policy makers must do now, it is to abolish
all large classes while there is still time. Globally, we concerned citizens
are doing what we can to deter moves by elites to install nazi-type regimes in
the West, leading to a global state later that will be in need of compliant
citizens.
Let
us all do our tasks now to take down school platforms that will be the
launching pads for compliant humans who can be chipped in couples of years’
time. The VeriChip by Verizon Corp is now out, and before 2015 a more perfected
prototype will be out, ready to be implanted to humans via syringe (by trained
doctors/medics).
We
still have the time to act, to note. Any decision that infringes on human
liberties is dangerously fascistic, such as re-instituting or maintaining large
classes.
Failing
to act in time, we shall watch in horror as new ‘das boots’ kids will be
churned out from our youth, commanded via chips to participate in building a
Draconian deux ex machina of the near future. And they’re
products of our universities, products of large classes.
By
then, I will be having the last laugh. With resonating guffaws will I declare
“I told you so.”
[Philippines, 27 June 2012]
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UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com,
ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
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