Det ser ut til at de har "lykkes" ganske bra med Kent, han ønsker jo at de skal fortsett å "hjelpe" ham når han blir atten.
Gatto spør i sin bok om vi har tenkt over at det kanskje ikke er nok hjelpeløse individer til å holde alle de som skal leve av dem i arbeid?
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the careers devoted to tending to them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my proposition: Mass dumbness first had to be imagined; it isn’t real.
Once the dumb are wished into existence, they serve valuable functions: as a danger to themselves and others they have to be watched, classified, disciplined, trained, medicated, sterilized, ghettoized, cajoled, coerced, jailed. To idealists they represent a challenge, reprobates to be made socially useful. Either way you want it, hundreds of millions of perpetual children require paid attention from millions of adult custodians. An ignorant horde to be schooled one way or another.