This bonus episode was inspired by John Taylor Gatto's Kickstarter campaign to produce a child's book.
With your help, he passed the required $15,000 with just 6 days left to go. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.
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Episode #745 - The Hall Of Mirrors (John Taylor Gatto Special) |
⌚ Fri 9 December 2016 ☻John Taylor Gatto |
![]() ![]() Download Hour1 Download Hour2John Taylor Gatto has contributed a lot to this show, perhaps more in terms of episodes than anyone else. Nevertheless, I'm giving another show over to him, since this speech, The Hall Of Mirrors, is such an excellent summary of the predicament of the United States of America - a nation which for generations has been attempting - not without success - to indoctrinate each new generation to greater heights of dependency upon the corporate system. This speech, from about 2009, really pulls it together, and gives a great historical perspective. |
Gatto emphasizes the twin threats of Hyperdemocracy - when ordinary people feel like they have the right to make themselves heard, and get angry if their voices are not being listened to - and Overproduction - when corporate profits fail because increases in productivity lead to falling prices and/or falling demand for new products. The episode begins with Gatto's observation that "Under corporate capitalism and corporate governance, ways must be found to make the general public less productive and less self-reliant, and school is a mechanism to do that." Even if his expose of schools is familiar to you. I recommend this speech as one of his finest, and a help to understand the conduct of the modern "democratic" nations:
![]() John Taylor Gatto, 2009 |
Thanks to John Taylor Gatto for this remarkable speech. And Thanks to everyone who heeded this last minute appeal to meet Gatto's Kickstarter deadline. He crossed the $15,000 minimum requirement within 24 hours of this episode being posted!
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