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The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Worker and Parasite

CHAPTER

You Don't Wanto?

i thought it was very interesting, which ia piece of history which i didn't know, is talks about the a selective service act being passed in 51. So you had to go register for the draft, unless you were in college. And so what that meant was that immediately everybody in the middle class started thought to going to college was very important. The lower classes got sent to bea canon mater a. But this is kind of the a sor f, the origin of everybody has to go to college,. and then everybody goes tol and so you have to have something for them to do. Andso there's all these colleges become a bureaucracy themselves. They become their own for profit

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Speaker 2
And again, thisky is supposed to be, aye, i'm not a conserver,
Speaker 1
not a conservative. Noayes.
Speaker 2
And something i thought was very interesting, which ia piece of history which i didn't know, is talks about the a selective service act being passed in 51, i think. And so you had to go register for the draft, unless you were in college. And so what that meant was that immediately everybody in the middle class started thought to going to college was very important. And the lower classes got sent to bea
Speaker 1
canon mater
Speaker 2
a. But this is kind of the a sor f, the origin of everybody has to go to college, and then everybody goes tol and so you have to have something for them to do. Andso there's all these colleges become a bureaucracy themselves. They become their own for profit kind of thing. You start having all these whatever, studies programms and electives and football stadiums and things. A ha, ha, ha and a and then people, you know, you create this pyramid scheme were, now, i'm projecting, now, i not goon beyond thetext, but you create pyramid scheme where, you know, you're not actually passing on any keeping any candle burning. What you're doing is just creating more positions for more people coming in behind it,
Speaker 1
right? It becomes a just another a consumer good, right? It's like, you know, you need to advertise it. You need to create the demand for it in people. And, you know, despite, so, you know, my family, we were imigrants. We come to america, like, i'm not that old, on six or seven, but it's even by ten years later, right, when i'm in high school, it's definitly been, i wouldn't say beaten into us, but inculcated that you go to college, um, because that's just what you do as like, a normal middle class person. Or if you want to get a good job, you want to move up in the world, you go to college. What do you mean you don't wanto? I mean, not that i didn't want to go, but just like that, doesn't even answer. Does'te te equation not going
Speaker 2
right?

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