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A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Erickson, Megan http://jacobinmag.com/winter-2012/a-nation-of-little-lebowski-urban-achievers/
Publisher: Jacobin, USA
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy – which is why the process of improving our nation’s schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
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