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not ALL of it has been for totally “oil” reasons.

The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) springs to mind,

• with it’s jingoistic plan to accomplish global domination through hegemony,
• • with contingency plans of mass distraction via manufactured catastrophes to problem-reaction-solution up more unaccountability for the government / military industrial complex / PNAC to carry on unchallenged,
• • • recognising the threat to their plans was not from competing countries and their militaries, but from the people.

We can still mend this.

Seems fucking insane

until understanding they’re in the same club with the same interests.

The peace president, who did not start any more wars… they said (and some still say …???).

It was absurd in the first weeks when he’d tripled obama’s drone bombing rate before ordering reporting on his drone bombing be censored.

He is their boy. He has always been their boy.

I suspect it’d be a fun waving path drawn by their point on the political compass… not entirely in one direction consistently.

I failed to take in the rest of this, after the second frame induced a loud ringing, like I’d just been hit by a flashbang of “the boy who cried wolf”.

Corroborating

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

and such, I’ve come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akj4EGPiQEY … interesting for anyone interested in pedagogy and psychology and sociology and so on. Johan Hari on Peter McCormack, “We Built A World Humans Aren’t Designed For”.

It seems like awareness of this is increasing,

and shall increase even more as the mismatch of provision and needs widens as ai and robots increasingly take up more and more of what industrial education had been conditioning us to be the robots for. Our robotification shall become farther out of reach of worth, into redundancy, revealing our real worth.

Johan Hari puts it better than my mangled clumsy verbosity.

So it’s like that line from Good Will Hunting: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Yeah for sure there’s a mix, different usecases, and it’s just handy to illustrate the other extremes, to elucidate others of the existence of these other paradigms otherwise beyond their ken. Some of them may indeed likewise have been a star shaped peg trying to fit in a square shaped hole, not realising there are ways that fit them better.

I know for a fact that if I was a parent I wouldn’t want my kids near that crap.

Yeah, it’d be some kind of non-mamalian (let alone inhuman) approach, to let your offspring freely frolic in dire dangers, and not actively protect and educate them. Roads. Crocodile infested rivers. Corporate “Social Media”.

That’s always a fun 3 fingers to double check on. May reveal some insidious “not even wrong” fallacy that’s not easy to see when too close to it, immersed in it.

Two chopsticks!

I websearched that, wondering if that some memetic idiomatic expression…

o_O the websearch I used returned only 1 result: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/one-chopstick-or-two-chopsticks … what’s happening to this world?

a yes or no has no information about the user

Sounds too good to be true. … But, if it’s as you say… sure, lets use it to let pedos know where to target. Oh, sorry, I mean, use it to “protect children”.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=computer+says+no

Even after explaining what I would have done to them,

with that data, if I had the data, when I worked in advertising… [or even just explaining their basic human dignity of privacy]… the rhetoric remains strong enough to not have the cognitive dissonance be itchy enough to stop fallaciously repeating their mantra “nothing to hide”,

… and so that’s why they’re fine with this dystopian nightmare, this single point of failure, this hijacking of humanity by totalitarian government (or at least just megalomaniacal parasites wanting total dominating control, even in banal mundane petty ways, like just doing their job, serving their client as best they can, maximally manipulating mentalities to maximise wealth extraction)?

It does not make sense.

As for who’s on social media… yeah, maybe lets not have a corporate attention snare that learned from the billions invested in Las Vegas casinos for their ability to snare and direct peoples attention, keeping them going back in for more, keeping them addicted, maximally extracting wealth from them. “Social media”, such an Orwellian marketing spin term. … The ambiguity and resulting conflations help camouflage what the crooks are up to. Not all “social media” are alike. As surely we here on the fediverse know.

Children should not be on “social media”? Depends what one means… but typically I’d say children are due the same rights, and are not to be under classed. Y’know? Wanna take away children’s access to parts of the world? The parts that can be used for good too? … I just picture what that different world’s like, where Aaron Swartz gets denied access to something even younger… where that precedent goes, how much worse the dystopia can be, compared to what it already is. … Or… as you allude to… How much more fervently pursued, freedom is, by the young, the tighter they squeeze.

So Orwellian.

So much exhausting bureaucratic organisational downtime in college between ladles of info, perchance you’re fit for it when they pour it, compared to just freely swimming in the ocean of information.

It takes some kind of self motivation, be that curiosity, dedication, purpose or something else.

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

Also then there’s the perspectives that value education above mere preparation for employment roles.

Leave [that] school.

You can learn more, faster, at your own pace, with a library card and an internet connection (if you use it like a library, not like TV).

You could also try walking your teacher through the user agreement… paying special attention to the deal with the devil clause, where they can change the agreement after you agree. And the parts about how they use all your data, and how they consider your emails their property after 90 days, and and and… So many egregious points. So against the spirit of pedagogy that any educational institute should be about.

impose rent?

but…

it’s already working for you, setting up traps for flies.

bloody capitalists… always short-sightedly, myopically, trying to maximise wealth extraction.

Here’s hoping they’re squeezing so tight as to make more people slip out of their grasp, drop their borg boxes, and return to being real humans.