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[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Read Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow".

There are 2 thinking-systems.

I call 'em Kahneman System-1 & Kahneman System-2.

System-1 is animal-reaction, prejudice, addiction, and trained-expertise, including all its defects.

System-2 is considered-reasoning.


What the Repubs, AND MANY OTHERS throughout the world, are doing, is fighting-off System-2, for animal-reaction's totalitarianism.

Biblical-literalists, Quran-literalists, Rashists, kkk, nazis, marxist-leninists, fascists, etc, the 1 thing that the ALL have in common,

is that they NEED to break System-2 from interfering with their animal-"reasoning"/reacting, and they use System-1 conditioning ( propaganda ) to displace System-2 from their own kind ( preventing objectivity all they can, while repeating, repeating, repeating, the "special narrative" that conditions System-1 into embodying the pushed-narrative ).


From my perspective it is simply humanity's ignorance working itself into a planet-killing tantrum/pogrom.

I no longer expect more than 1.5% of humankind to survive this century.


Germany outlawed homeschooling, and because the education-system did sooo much damage to my potential, I was against Germany's answer ( I'm not of Europe, this just bugged me ),

but then, through the years, I've seen what the cults do with "homeschooling", and .. Germany is right.

There are 2 independent reasons for homeschooling:

  • education is bad, abusive-of-potential, etc, and homeschooling looks to be a convenient means of letting the problem remain, while saving a few kids

  • wanting to prevent the schools from seeing the brainwashing, the abuse, the molestation, etc, and so keep the child within the cult/abuse regime

The real correction for bad education, is to correct it, at all scales.

From removing conflict-of-interest in all institutions, to, Scandinavian-style, removing alternative to public-education, so that the rich who want their kids getting better education, have only 1 path available: improve education itself.

( private tutoring can still alter career-vectors, but removing the need for that helps fix things ).

The US system does the opposite:

Poor regions get the worst schools, in order to prevent poor kids from ever competing equally with rich-regions kids...

( evil, that, and that convict/felon/inmate "Jesus" Yehoshua benJoseph would have had no tolerance for it, his being obviously socialist, & providing both free healthcare & free food to people, while stating bluntly that you could more-easily get a twisted-rope through a needle than you could get an oligarch/rich into heavan )

The US education-system is actually a well-engineered class-segregation system, not an education system.

This guy was a NY State Teacher Of The Year award winner, who trashed his employability in education by telling people the truth.

Institutions require the breaking & dependency-on-approval of kids.

Among other truths...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto


Anyways, once you realize that competing interests work to either make education work, or not-work in specific ways, and the not-work enforcers have been winning all along.

John Taylor Gatto discovered that the original US education system was paid-for by the coal-industry, etc...

Why?

To prevent any more people like Benjamin Franklin or Abraham Lincoln ( both mostly self-educated ) from ever occuring again:

what were required were limited workers.

So, they based the US education system on the lower caste education of India.

Elegant, isn't that ...

Anyways, once you earn "compound interest" on deliberately damaging kids ability to do considered-reasoning, generation on generation, then the lashing-out-against-considered-reasoning people are going to gain enough dominance in order to take exclusive totalitarian possession of the country.

Which is exactly what you see happening.

Mao, in China, destroyed both education & the educated.

The Repubs in the US are going to do what Mao did, their own way.

Because they hate/can't-stand considered-reasoning or objectivity.

So, they're fighting it to the death.

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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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