Lies, lies, and more lies

I am sick of the lies comming out of my Geography prof. Tomorrow I act to get some alternative grading. Its bad enough that he lies about population distribution in England. There, he's just wrong, and I don't see any harm beyond the fact that its simply not true. That is bad enough, because error is sufficient to warrent condemnation. But some of his lies are insidious in their subversive intent. This is error in the service of harm. He claims that Soviet indoctrination was very much like American indocrtrination. I suppose that's true, except for the secret police, the gulags, the state control of speech, and the other forms of repression. Then again a dog is very like a fish, except for the fins, scales, gills, and other characteristics of underwater habitation. He argues that cars in 1970 cost $2500 and that similar cars cost $15,000 today and that this is largely the product of our economic disfunction. Never mind that the value of the dollar has changed by a factor of four, so that in real terms that 1970 car costs more like $10,000 today and that the items he did list as differences (mostly safety and convienience features) account for the remaining $5k. Why send students out into the world suspicious of corporations, believeing that their system was corrupted and broken by greed, and that is fundamentally disfunctioinal? Could it be any of a variety of left-wing ideologies? The fact that this professor is a leftie is not the problem. He can embrace anarchy, communism, fasicism, or idiotarianism for all I care. Further, if he can get a faculty to hire him, he should be able to teach from his perspective. But to lie to people to get them to embrace this doctrine is a cancer on the professoriate. I mentioned 3 lies, and this one clearly slides over into incompitance rather than the other. He argued that when we refer to devolution (such as the formation of a Scottish Parliament) that it connects to some evolutionary concept of greater complexity, rather than the more literal sense of falling down.

By the way, this caltalogue of lies are all taken from an hour of class today. He has a previous catalogue of lies, but today was the straw that broke the camel's back.