Even our student newspaper has reposted the stupid lie that Trump promised a bloodbath if he loses the election.
The information age, you know? Anybody could go and watch what he actually said at any time. It would take all of 30 seconds. But why do that if you can be lied to and manipulated instead?
These are students, they aren’t supposed to care which old dude wins some boring election at all. They should be rebellious and care about stuff oldsters don’t know exist. Instead, they are being subservient and meek. It’s all very sad.
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This is why we will not be able to hold off the Visigoths. There will be absolutely no will to do so. And the news will report that the invasion is far right misiniformation.
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People eagerly and happily consent to being lied to in most egregious ways. There’s no agency or desire to have agency.
It’s not about Trump at all. God knows, we are fed enough lies on many other subjects. Out of sheer self-preservation people shouldn’t accept uncritically everything they are being told. Or if not self-preservation, then at least some residual sense of dignity.
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I have been over this multiple times, this month, with a fully-indoctrinated 12yo. “Why do I have to learn about statistics: I’m never gonna use it. And I’m bad at it” “Why do I have to learn about the ancient Greeks/Romans? I’m never gonna use that”
A) you’re 12, and you already know your future so well that you know exactly what you will and won’t need in adulthood better than any adult who’s already had some experience at it?
B) You learn it so people don’t have such a bloody easy time lying to you.
C) “I’m bad at it” is the exact same thing as saying “I haven’t learned this yet” but with the pre-determination that you won’t learn it. That will not serve you well in any part of your life. But hey, if you wan’t to learn everything the hard, painful way, I can’t stop you.
As much as my own 100% homeschooled 12yo frustrates me and we have our disputes about education, I never get this crap from him. He gets it. He has goals. And I can tell him OK, I know xyz is boring, but you’re going to need to be at least familiar with it in order to move on to zyx thing that you want to do. And that’s sufficient.
Schools are raising kids to have no goals, or if they have any, no idea how to reach them, and like adult life is some weird thing that happens after you finish school, that has no relation whatsoever to school. The only reason to work at any of it is if you’re in love with the praise of arbitrary minor authority figures– and that’s all about passing the test, and nothing whatever to do with mastery.
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(and in case it doesn’t show, this pisses me off in the worst way– why are we deliberatly training our young to be helpless thoughtless ignoramuses?)
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I was exactly like the kid you describe at 17-20 years of age. I was a very typical product of Soviet schooling in that regard. Thankfully, I found my way out of this mentality.
So what does it tell us about our school system that it produces the same kind of mentality as the totalitarian Soviet model?
I’m spending a lot of time trying to get my second-grader out of the “I’m not good at this thing I never learned”. It’s hard because the magical thinking of people just “being good at” complex tasks without having to put in hard work is persistent.
I really hate the “I’m just not good at.” I’m personally really not good at languages, writing or creating ideas. I have to put in extraordinary amounts of work to get where I am. Nothing that matters to me in life came easy. Not is it supposed to.
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Have you taken a gander at popular kid/tween literature lately? It is 100% about people who are naturally born with godlike powers, and are just good at stuff without having to learn it. Because heaven forbid you ever have to work at something to get good at it. (spits in appropriate direction)
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Yes, and it’s also in TV shows for teens. Kids are trained up from childhood to have magical mentality and give up easily. Something tells me that the ideologues of the entertainment industry aren’t raising their own kids in this frame of mind. Their kids are learning hard while the parents help out by erasing the prospective competition.
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Yeah. I am deeply frustrated right now that we are basically poor and getting poorer, and we could be in much better shape if I just shelved the kids in the local school and went back to working for a salary. May be forced to it at some point, if inflation keeps going. But at the same time… God help us maybe it’s worth it anyway, because unless something drastic changes between now and when my kids reach adulthood, my children will have no competition whatever in whatever they want to pursue. The world is their oyster.
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That’s what I keep saying. It’s quite easy to beat the competition in the US if you don’t fall apart emotionally at every minor annoyance, don’t feel massively sorry for yourself all the time, have a modicum of resilience, and are capable of consistent effort.
People need to learn to get over minor contretemps. Gosh, they just go on and on about how somebody looked at them wrong. It’s so boring.
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“a bloodbath”
They may have stepped in a pile of ….. if republicans knew how to capitalize on it… which they mostly don’t of course….
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Did you hear that Blasey Ford published a new book?
I’m getting radicalized all over again.
That woman is the best recruitment tool Republicans ever had. I was a very faithful Democrat before she came along and started squeaking her accusations.
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“Blasey Ford published a new book”
Someone needs to grab her by the soldiers and yell at her: Girl! Move on! Yeah, he felt you up at a party but then he lost interest! You had your chance with him and you blew it! He is no longer into you!
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… butbutbut someone said it was time to wear the Hugo Boss again …
🙂
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