Students are funny
The scene: Class this evening
The text: An excerpt from The Communist Manifesto
Me, trying to get a reaction: So what do you think? Should all the parasitic, bourgeois factory owners be lined up against the wall and shot?
The Reaction: General indifference to the fate of the factory owners.
Me, summing up a passage where Marx and Engels note that the owners have no incentive to pay the workers anything more than enough to subsist and propagate: Basically, all they care about is giving them just enough to eat and fuck.
The Reaction: OMG! Did he just say that?!?
So it goes.
The text: An excerpt from The Communist Manifesto
Me, trying to get a reaction: So what do you think? Should all the parasitic, bourgeois factory owners be lined up against the wall and shot?
The Reaction: General indifference to the fate of the factory owners.
Me, summing up a passage where Marx and Engels note that the owners have no incentive to pay the workers anything more than enough to subsist and propagate: Basically, all they care about is giving them just enough to eat and fuck.
The Reaction: OMG! Did he just say that?!?
So it goes.
posted by GeoX, one of the GeoX boys. at 10:57 PM
We're tired, and hypothetical factory owners...zzz..
but the prof says something about sex and we're 5th graders and wide awake.
My anthropology class is pretty interesting, but on wednesday, she kept asking us our opinions on something, and I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't have anything to say but "that sucks" and "I'm tired." So we left class early. A happy ending all around.