donderdag 12 mei 2011


Student bodies that represent the interest of the youth propose the institution of a black list for studies that offer no job perspective. In line with the utilistic calculus they demand percentages. The probability of acquiring a job should be attached to a study as if it concerns a commodity with a price tag. This market logic reaches even further: studies that are without perspective deserve budget cuts. The youthful subject themselves to the voice of reason. A warning is issued to those reckless young people that are deaf and dumb and choose that which no rational person can choose: a study that offers no job perspective. Money is the only criterion here. Another choice - the wish to develop a certain talent and pursue a personal interest - is false and deserves punishment. Those irresponsible that choose the path of unreason are responsible for a 'mismatch' in society. This economic rationality forms the criterion between black and white, bad and good, no future and future, punishment and reward. There seems to be no outside. Even, or should we say especially, knowledge, that sublime good that should be, according to Aristotle sought after as a goal in itself, does not escape the economic calculus. This rings true even for young people. There is no more space for a reckless age. The future already demands discipline from those that once had their future before them as an open space. The youth revolt against this openness. The current pedagogical truth hat parents so willingly offer their children; the assurance that your precious child should do what he wants, that he should develop his talent and become who he is, is false. The youthful refuse this false hope: it can only result in a mismatch, poverty. They who choose a study without perspective are the futureless, the hopeless, the impossible.

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