I’m sure Fox is not being ironic when they criticize The Story of Stuff for fear mongering. What is sure is that Fox is a bit of weathervane informing us of our good work. In other words, if it feels like attacking the use of The Story of Stuff in classrooms (I use it for teaching as well), then it must be working. The knee-jerk reaction to the video’s valid claim that externalities are both the source of Western wealth and the destruction of the environment is dismissed as “ponytail” Marxism, a funny pejorative, but hardly substantiative, which is par for the Fox course. Another irony in the Fox attack is how it decries the video for being “anti-government” when it is Fox’s neoliberal philosophy to attack government whenever possible.
Anyhow, know they enemy.
Thanks to the Immanence blog for posting this.
