Schooling in Orange Jumpsuits

[mgc1961]

The image that flashed into my mind was: schools in orange jumpsuits.

Something has broken apart in our society - an unspoken agreement about sanity, a truce between play and order. The authoritarian strain, always present, of course, has been ratcheting up to ever more absurd levels for a decade now.

It's as though, as the American political class has watched its real control over the course of events slowly ebb, a collusion of desperation has broken out among them: "The time of fun and waste is over," as the 9/11 terrorists put it. As our problems get increasingly complex, the solutions we implement get more and more simplistic. Results don't really matter, just the appearance of holding someone accountable.

More to read at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/11-2