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1. From a thread on schooling. https://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1285270163156283394
My primary critique of education has been its lack of value for the effort and resources invested, but I choose that tack in part because I think it’s the one most legible to present culture. It is the most legible in part because of all the other downstream effects of education.
The larger and in many respects more meaningful critique is the way education accustoms people to constant stress, fear, and competition, accommodation to authority, cynical disinterest in learning as a species of fraud, and comfort with not producing anything of value.
If our system continually produces young people who are burned out and terrified, heavily indebted, have few meaningful relationships in their lives, can see only a narrow number of legitimate paths in life and regard absolutely vicious competition for them as normal...
...are trapped into an essentially fake narrative paradigm of viewing everything in terms of moral truth and not practical reality, seem to have fewer and fewer skills and less and less real knowledge despite more time spent in education... then we should ask some hard questions.
You can’t understand the revolt of the young today without understanding that people feel alone, burned out, always on the brink of disaster, and don’t see any way to improve their lives by their own hard work other than by shanking each other. It’s what they’re taught.
