I’d Rather be Happy
The study in this oped piece finds that capitalism is really good at producing rich bankers but socialism is good at producing happy people.
I’ll state right up front that I’d rather be happy. I’d rather that my students be happy.
One of my favorite poems takes it a step further:
it’s like being sick all the time, I think,
coming home from work,
sick in that low-grade continuous way
that makes you forget what it’s like to be well.we have never in our lives known what it is to be well.
what if I were coming home, I think,
from doing work that I loved and that was for us all,what if I looked at the houses and the air and the streets,
knowing they were in accord, not set against us,what if we knew the powers of this country
moved to provide for us and for all people–how would that be–how would we feel and think and what would we create?Karen Brodine – Deconstruction Site
What if our schools served this purpose? What if schools were there to help individuals, all individuals, achieve happiness? What would those schools look like and how would we feel and think and what would we create?
Technorati Tags: poems and socialism, you on the right – take a minute to suck on that, turns out I am a commie-pinko-bed-wetter after all, no I don’t like ketchup on my hotdogs
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
