Tour Guiding

I have to say that I like this idea of the "tour guide," but at some point we have to make decisions about what we're teaching, don't we? And don't those decisions reveal some kind of agenda (political?  social?  cultural?)?  Doesn't our textbook reveal its politics at almost every turn--marriage is not "traditional" and never has been; obedience to authority is problematic; consumerism is troublesome.  Can this even be avoided, considering that even the alternative--to use no text and only focus on student writing--turns out to be embedded in a hopelessly Romantic notion of the author/individual?