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A Boring Dystopia
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You act like people=people.
Like the past few decades of stripping education and anti-intellectual culture and anti-solidarity propaganda isnt a factor. Weve created a perfect storm to keep people obedient and subservient.
Weve all decided that giving all planning permissions and resource allocation to people whose way of life requires we be like this is righteous.
We need to exterminate the billionaires or life on earth does not survive.
We weren't flush with quality education and rich intellectual culture and a staunch labor movement several decades ago.
None of these problems are new or unique to the current moment.
They are worse on purpose. There has been conscious effort. They started teaching children not to read instead of how.
How do you interact with anyone or anything in this country as an illiterate?
Everything Is Computer
I dont know anything about this podcast but the text of the page explains what's going on. https://revealnews.org/podcast/how-teaching-kids-to-read-went-so-wrong/
Remember most people use android and ios more than linux or even windows. They're using icons and voice commands.
https://xkcd.com/1414/