The Law of the Cathedral and the Revolution

1. You can't be the Cathedral and the Revolution at the same time.

Our schools are a cathedral of sorts, where our dominant social and cultural assumptions originate. Our mainstream media and our political establishment tend very strongly to assume those assumptions.

At the same time, many scholars view themselves as brave revolutionaries, carrying forward their banners against oppression. The idea that they themselves might be the oppressors would never occur to them.

The Law is, you can't be the cathedral and the revolution at the same time. If there's really going to be a revolution against oppression, it will have to originate outside the schools and be directed against the schools.