From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 17:23:43 MDT
Mike Wiik writes
> Basically, beginning shortly after the American Revolution, several
> different threads in thinking began a convergence that (later) gained a
> purpose when captains of industry realized that a nation of largely
> self-educated shopkeepers, craftsmen, small farmers and such were not
> going to be suitable for the factory work that would drive the
> industrial revolution.
Mike, I've read only a little of Gatto's book, but statements such
as the above are not encouraging. What sort of model of society
do you hold when you can claim that "the captains of industry...
were not going to be suitable for factory work"? In my model, or
understanding, those captains of industry, e.g. Vanderbilt, couldn't
have cared less what the state of the countries children and workers
was going to be in a few decades in the future. They focused entirely
on the bottom line---next week's if not today's.
This stinks of conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theorists arrive at
elaborate and contrived explanations involving hidden cabals and
purposes so secret that they're never committed to paper. You or
Mr. Gatto will have to provide me a lot of evidence that, for
a concrete example, the "captains of industry" carefully planned
the future of the United States.
Can you buttress your position with either facts or explanations?
Lee Corbin
P.S. I had to give up on Lyndon LaRouche's fantasies more than
a couple of decades back because of exactly this kind of appealing,
but ultimately ridiculous, prose.
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