It doesn’t matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they’ll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.
I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.
A lot of the irredeemables are that way because of the market driven education standards. Kids don’t learn philosophy and art have meaning and value, and it has become so alien to them that they stop asking the right questions. I had one of my better students ask me, for another class assignment, what I thought the minimum wage should be. The idea of selling their labor is already ingrained in their world view, and my kids aren’t even in high school yet.
Reagan’s advisor Roger Freeman is the reason student loans exist basically.
His reasoning is that an “educated proletariat” would be dangerous.
damn, did he ever articulate it that way? that would make for some good quotes
They literally said that. Someone posted a photo of the text sometime ago but I can’t find it.
lmao, found it, holy shit
From this article https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/