Dear George,
Your education reforms are works of pure genius. You have taken a field known for its chaos and confusion and made it even more so. Your work is nearly finished, but there is one question still to be answered: How can schools teach citizenship in a corporatist age? More specifically, what is the nature of the good corporatist citizen?
Our new age needs citizens with a pinprick vision, a vision that stops at their lotioned and oiled skin, their whitened teeth and their deodorized armpits. The crotch must replace the cross; the dancing screen, community. Reduce personality to a fashion statement; replace scripture with the glossy pages of a catalog, the Constitution with a Visa statement. Let the scarlet glow of the party light replace the searing light of God’s grace. Drown out doubt with the iPod; discourage thought with the sound byte. Replace the soaring wings of the eagle with the leaden chains of indebtedness. In the corporatist state instant gratification must rule.
You can accomplish all of this by forging a partnership between the corporations and the schools. The drones are all in a dither about their property taxes. Propose a property tax reform by encouraging corporate funding of public education. The corporations would get a fantastic return on their investments by being able to manipulate the curriculum. This will enable them to create the perfect corporatist citizen by replacing the curriculum with marketing strategies geared to the demographics of each individual school.
It makes sense. If America’s destiny is the merging of the corporation and government, does it not follow that our public schools must come under corporate control?
Imagine the challenge of teaching children both instant gratification and the humility to accept their impoverished condition with grace. It would take a truly great marketer to pull that one off.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
9:28:52 PM 
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