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Collective Agency and the Catholic School system


I am interested in our institutions and how at this point in time society is clearly very anti-institution. Neo-liberalism, Reagan-omics, globalism, capitalism is the reigning doctrine and at it's core is a seeming hatred for public institutions. Whether it's government or unions or even the press. Organizations whose primary purpose was to improve the lives of the many are now scorned and ridiculed. We're better off leaving city building to Google and everything else to Amazon. Eliza Anyangwe writes a great piece about Collective Agency. In our love affair with capitalism, billionaires and unicorns we marvel and idolize the personal agency of people like Jeff Bezon, and Elon Musk,  we go buy that fair trade coffee or Toms loafers. We sign that online petition, share that meme. However Eliza argues that in dialogue in working with people side by side we can accomplish more. Eliza references Anand Giradharas as a fellow advocate for collective agency as well as he wants to stop the woke-washing currently going on through "big philanthropy". Restoring the idea of collective agency is likely an important step in rebuilding institutions like public schools, governments and the like. For all our futures it's an important step.

Interesting piece by Michael Coren who has been very vocal of his criticism of the Catholic church around inclusiveness for a number of minorities. In this article he asks why Ontario continues to pay for the Catholic school system. He lays out the case of how we in Ontario got to the current two school system, how other provinces and dealt with it and the potential benefits. As a protestant alumni of the catholic school system I can't say that I've seen a system that produces a more righteous or faithful lot. I did have to take a religion course each year and sit through mass monthly.

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