[Edu-sig] Things to come

[Dinu C. Gherman]

Arthur Siegel wrote:
> 
> "Disney Learning" is the voice over. Not much else said.
> I am not dogmatically anti-corporate.
> Then why do I consider that a very scary 15 seconds?

Maybe because you already heard about "Disney Living" before? 
Here in Europe I've once seen a TV report about a supposedly  
"ideal" village called "Celebration" in Florida, U.S. (see e.g.
http://celebration.nm1.net) where people move in voluntarily 
to let a cartoon corporation decide how they should spend 
their daily lives. Now, how scary is that?! 

Although I do think that common sense is more common in some 
places than in others, I also believe that all this is more of 
a logical consequence of corporations using their wealth for
missions they don't have a mandate for.

Regards,

Dinu

-- 
Dinu C. Gherman
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