Mathematics student who upon completion of his degree was ripped from the university’s caring bosom and cast into the ghastly cold world of employment

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  • The only way to defuse kids’ timetables is to ensure that mandatory education must continue after you are 18. While the kids are away on summer break, we need to use the empty classrooms to put all the adults to the test, examine their blind spots rigorously and without mercy, and guide them towards fixing their problems. Too many grown adults cannot tell you how vaccines work, where nuclear power comes from, what Linux is, how kimchi tastes, who Henry Kissinger was, or how to read a pie chart. There are 50-year-olds out there right now who can’t read, and cars are being driven by them. The perils emanating from an uneducated working adult are much more vicious, insidious, and dangerous than from an uneducated kid, and it is high time we started paying attention to the threat they pose.


  • It isn’t even bizarre if you consider that every foreign notion that enters the general vicinity of the US is immediately ripped apart and absorbed by a churning maelstrom of confusion and misinformation explicitly designed to prevent the formation of anything resembling coherent political thought. If you want bizarre, look at a Qanon map















  • The “control your subjects” quote is not even that far fetched, because in order to perpetuate itself, the capitalist class must adopt its own version of dialectical materialism so that it can learn how to avoid or defeat revolutions and minimise the damage of economic crises on its end.

    The problem with learning this capitalist kind of theory is that it limits its user to the portion of history before a successful revolution occurs. It tells them nothing about the culture and the society of the economy that will follow, nor about their own role in it. They will lie awake pondering the simplest question that any proletarian who has read even just a Marxist leaflet could answer, as if it were an indeterminable enigma such as the shape of the universe. Such a theory may be able to teach calm indifference when Marxism teaches horror and revulsion, but it must be silent in the face of existential dread when Marxism begins teaching hope.