[walt] Whitman And [humanist Educator John] Dewey

Well, What There Ought To Be Is An International Labor Organization, A Confederation Of The Trade Unions Of All The Countries Speaking For The Workers Who Are Competing With One Another, And Talking About The Difference In Wage Levels Between, Say, Europe And Indonesia.

Complaints About The Social Irresponsibility Of The Intellectual Typically Concern The Intellectual's Tendency To Marginalize Herself, To Move Out From One Community By Interior Identification Of Herself With Some Other Community - For Example, Another Country Or Historical Period... It Is Not Clear That Those Who Thus Marginalize Themselves Can Be Criticized For Social Irresponsibility. One Cannot Be Irresponsible Toward A Community Of Which One Does Not Think Of Oneself As A Member. Otherwise Runaway Slaves And Tunnelers Under The Berlin Wall Would Be Irresponsible.

Always Strive To Excel, But Only On Weekends.

There Is Nothing Deep Down Inside Us Except What We Have Put There Ourselves.

There Are Credentials For Admission To Our Democratic Society [...]. You Have To Be Educated In Order To Be A Participant In Our Conversation So We Are Going To Go Right On Trying To Discredit You In The Eyes Of Your Children, Trying To Strip Your Fundamentalist Religious Community Of Dignity, Trying To Make Your Views Seem Silly Rather Than Discussable. We Are Not So Inclusivist As To Tolerate Intolerance Such As Yours.