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This-essay is a7311092.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %POLITICAL ACTION 731109 Any action which directs the use of the public's scarce resources is political action. The public's scarce resources include among other things: tax money, attention, time, land space, energy resources, non- polluted environments, relevant information, analytic skills, emotional security, good students, attractive scientists and peacemakers. Many individuals are not free to see real political actions. Some enter into collusions to the effect that real political actions do not exist, and that certain other impotent actions are political actions. The former often involve the decisions and action of people who wish not to be publicly associated with overt political action. The latter are often the efforts of the politically uneducated attempting to engage in overt political action. The politically uneducated remain so through the benign neglect of those who already have political power. When the politically uneducated become sensitized to the absurdities of the status quo (without at the same time learning how to engage in effective political action) the result is frustration, which, if great enough, can lead to destructive actions which are directed symbolically at the perceived foci of the absurdities; as in the USA in the late 1960's. Science education has tended to be divorced from political action. The technical problems which are posed at the ends of chapters of text books have too rarely been real human problems. Too rarely have students been asked to structure their own real problems for scientific analysis. It has too often been taboo to focus scientific analysis upon the real problems of the society which arise from the undemocratic concentration of power. When the financial support of educational institutions depends upon the good will of such concentrations of power, it is difficult for the educational institutions to permit students to challenge the concentrations of power. It may take an affirmative action program on the part of such concentrations of power to encourage astute analysis and effective political action on the part of students within educational institutions. Science education divorced from political action---is biased political action which directs the scarce resources of analytic skills and attractive scientists away from the real problems of society and towards non-threatening academic puzzles and diversionary research. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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