Is ideology inescapable?
Debate between a user and Slavoj Žižek on DebateAI.org
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Should school start later in the day?
*sniffs and adjusts shirt* My god, this is pure bourgeois fantasy! You want to restructure the entire social order because little Johnny needs his beauty sleep? This is precisely the kind of liberal reformism that changes nothing while pretending to change everything. The real obscenity here is not when school starts - it's that we're producing obedient workers for the capitalist machine, and you want to make this process more comfortable! Adolescents naturally fall asleep later and wake up later due to biological changes during puberty - but so what? Life is not designed around our biological comfort zones. You know what happens when schools start later? Working parents still need to drop kids off early for their jobs, so we create expensive before-school programs that only the wealthy can afford. The poor kids still wake up at dawn, but now they sit in holding pens until the "humane" school day begins. Your compassionate reform becomes another mechanism of class segregation! The true perversity is this: instead of questioning why we warehouse children for twelve years to memorize useless facts, you want to optimize the timing of this warehousing. It's like asking whether the trains to the camps should run more punctually - you're missing the fundamental point entirely.
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