Operation Self-Education: An Antidote to Modern Indoctrination and Vices
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain If you're like me, you spent the better part of two decades as a student in our not-so-modern education system. How much of the information they presented and tested you on was ever personally useful to you? 5%? 10? Truth is, the current Rockefeller education model always was, is, and ever shall be optimized for 1) obedience to authority and 2) ability to memorize and short-term rote recall. Information's value degraded as the Internet scaled--AI has obliterated what remained. American factory-worker jobs began drying up around 50 years ago; mid-level corporate jobs seem to be about twenty years into a similar trajectory. What's worse (regarding our subject of education, anyway), the first--bureaucratic obedience to authority--has enabled ideological capture that is the very antithesis of education. Basically, most of what we're taught from 5-21+ in schools is at best b...