COUNTERMAPPING CULTURE : Use edges and value the Marginal
Within any discipline, it is valuable to observe who is making the map and whether we respect their agenda and skill in constructing context and mythologies.

THE EMPIRE
We are all indigenous peoples.  The Empire has come and laid a grid upon our circles, demanding obedience, efficiency and order.  
We must be the jedis. I understand the appeal of the Empire.  They represent order and efficiency that could create ease.  However, Aldous Huxley says it well in Doors of Perception when he remarks that rather than using the efficiency and industriousness we have created to give all of humanity a ten hour work week, we simply create more work and demand higher growth.  With all our grain surplus, we aren't feeding the hungry of the world.  Efficiency dynamics which could be used to facilitate human happiness become more about power and money.
The current financial advisors write the economic textbooks, defining how money functions in our society. 
Indeed as Joseph Cambell points out, you can tell who is running a society by the tallest buildings in that society.  In Medieval Europe, clearly God and the clergy were honored through the cathedrals.  Then, in America and Europe, we see the political centers begin to overshadow God in the separation of Church and State.  And now, the skyscrapers of the financial district tower over all.   In each case, the tallest building is merely a symbol of who is in control .. . and now it is the financial sector and in some ways, they are determining what education means.  I wonder if it means becoming a useful slave to their machine.