I Quote Exactly

I'm learning it's tough to learn utter crap. I think the reason I never studied any to much in high school was because it all made so much sense. The only things I had to learn were the things that I couldn't make sense of except by memorizing them: trigonometry identities and biology vocab come to mind. All of my teachers were so good at making sense. That's because they were teaching me how to think more than they were shoving knowledge down my throat. Well, in Sociology 242, Modern Social Problems, this is the stuff I'm memorizing. I think the individual statements are ridiculous enough, I'll forgoe the commentary. I quote exactly:


"The powerful, by making and enforcing the laws, create and define deviance."

"In essence, the largest corporations control the world economy"

"Capitalism generates inequality"

"Thus, the candidates tend to represent a limited constituency - the wealth"

"The law does not exist as an abstraction"

"The schools, for instance, consciously teach youth that capitalism is the only correct economic system. This indoctrination to conservative values achieves a consensus among the citizenry concerning the status quo.

"Whenever the interest of the wealthy clash with those of other groups or even of the public at large, the interest of the former are served"

"The poor, being powerless..."

"Foreign policy seems to be carried on in the light of the needs of the munitions makers, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the multinational corporations"

[My favorite] "Religious beliefs, such as the resistance of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and of fundamentalist Muslim regimes such as in Saudi Arabia to the use of contraceptives, are a great obstacle to population control. However, religion is not an insurmountable barrier. Despite the Catholic hierarchy's resistance to family planning, some nations with overwhelming Catholic majorities have extremely low birthrates"

[My other favorite] "Malnourishment also causes a low level of energy. [Footnote:] Although low energy levels are a result of poverty, many persons have blamed poverty on an inherent lack of energy, or "drive" in the poor - a classic example of blaming the victim"