dear_academia dafremen I'm not sure if it occurs to you that for all of these many decades, you've been sorting through our children, cherry-picking them for the brightest, most cooperative and most ambitious. Then, you promptly serve them up to a system that's hell bent on destroying us for profit. Meanwhile, the rest of our kids are taught that they are the left overs and hobbled mercilessly until they know their place as the less-thans who shouldn't trust their own judgement. And while the wealthy use the very cream of our working class future to undermine the future of the working class, you preach like some empty-headed geniuses sitting on a pile of bones who think they're heroes for grooming the victims. Shame on you for letting an ego stroke in elementary school turn you against your own kind. 230118 ... dafremen "They did this to us. I was fortunate enough to avoid most of it, but caught a whiff of it and watched how it separated me from those of my generation. They made us unsure of ourselves. The working class used to be the MOST sure of ourselves. They made us into children..like them. We used to be the adults in society,(those who do what is unpleasant but needs to be done) now we are chronic children with our cargo pants and our teddy bears..with our juvenile fantasies and childish responses to fear. And it's not pathetic..it's just tragic. It's no one's fault..I watched it all happen. They brainwashed us..and I was fortunate enough to have been fucked hard by authority very early on..so I resisted letting them in my head. They tried to destroy us to give their mediocre children an advantage. To give their spoiled shitless, inexperienced and so clueless kids a chance to be leaders. But it was becoming more and more obvious that their children were looking like MORONS compared to our children. So they "educated" us..to dumb us down. To make us easy for incompetent rulers to rule. And as shallow, clueless, deluded, selfish and sociopathic as they are..they didn't forget one thing: blanket forts don't stop bullets." 230118 ... . some buddhist master once said in the beginner's mind the options are many in the expert's mind there are few and that wasn't a compliment trying to find complex solutions to complex nested holarchies of complex problems will not be achieved by the myopic views of the narrow_minded self_congratulatory experts that spend their lives in classrooms; i reject all theory in favor of practice experts to me are people who go out in the world and actually DO things run experiments treat patients reform their hypotheses and try again 230118 ... daf This. ^^ 230220 ... . intellect in the buddhist view is just another delusion that bolsters ego obscures truth 230223 what's it to you? who go blather from