Comments on: Mistakes Were Made https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: CMarko https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6472 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:03:25 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=791#comment-6472 A new, similar case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402591_pf.html

I am so glad I’m not in high school anymore.

]]> By: moldbug https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6470 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:36:51 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=791#comment-6470 Professor Burke,

Don’t pull on that! You never know what it might be connected to.

I’m afraid there is no such thing as a phronetic committee. Wisdom is not a common property of collective action. So Filmer is just around the corner…

]]> By: aprudy https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6469 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:11:14 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=791#comment-6469 Summarily paraphrasing Max Weber: hyper-rationalized professional bureaucratic efficiency destroys all social meaning and precludes wisdom… what he forgot or, due to his depressiveness, couldn’t see was what anarchists and Marxists – and even some Progressives – know… the only socially meaning-ful solution to living under these conditions is engaged and coordinated collective action, which of course can be expressed in a myriad of effective ways…
Or at least that’s what Richie Schuldenfrei, Ken Sharpe and others taught us oh so many years ago.

]]> By: Laura https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6468 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:16:33 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=791#comment-6468 You know what these cases remind me of that I hadn’t thought of until now–Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” I used to teach that story every year to freshmen and it always has a chilling effect on them as they realize how easy it is to “follow the rules” even when the rules result in some pretty horrific outcomes that make no sense.

]]> By: CMarko https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/03/27/mistakes-were-made-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6457 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:07:21 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=791#comment-6457 Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.com has a great article about prosecuting teenagers for sending each other naked photos: http://www.slate.com/id/2211169/pagenum/all/

Best quotation: “The argument for hammering every such case seems to be that allowing nude images of yourself to go public may have serious consequences, so let’s nip it in the bud by charging kids with felonies, which will assuredly have serious consequences.”

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