Post #700301

2026-03-16 10:01 UTC

The people who constantly say things like "We need education" in response to problems of the world make me want to stab someone. Probably them. My dude, look at the fucking people running the planet. How educated are they? Very. They have gone through a number of "prestigious" schools and programs. What the fuck are they doing? Please, stop just going WE NEED EDUCATION to every problem. No, we don't. We know shit's wrong, and we're still not giving a shit. This is not an education problem.

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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-16 10:07

Tangentially, I'm also tired of the whole "The fascists have taken the wrong lesson from dystopian fiction!" people. For the love of all of our mental healths, THEY DO NOT CARE. It's aesthetics to them. They do not give a single solitary shit that they don't understand the themes and morals of dystopian novels. Hell, we know they don't understand what they read; Elon Musk made a great display of entirely misunderstanding the point of Hitchhiker's Guide. He doesn't care that he doesn't know what it means; to him, it means what he says it means. It means what he forces it to mean. That is how he sees it. That is also not an education problem. That is a problem of how self-interested fascists (same thing) behave and believe the world to work. No amount of education is going to fix that.

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@shimon@kolektiva.social 2026-03-16 10:09

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems Why lump together Paulo Freire or Judith Suissa with the Harvard Business School?

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@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social 2026-03-16 14:23

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems It's an education problem in the sense that they have too much fucking education. Education that teaches them ideologies that are tools for oppressing the rest of us. Education that prepares them to take their places in the global system of capitalist control, just as the education they force us and our children to accept to prepare us to be controlled and to take our subordinate roles in that same system.

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@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca 2026-03-16 15:23

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems Indeed: “My moral system doesn’t require me to care about others” is not a problem of knowledge, information, or understanding.

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@paulywill@mstdn.ca 2026-03-16 20:22

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems your tone is appropriate.

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@young_harbinger@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-16 20:37

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 🔥 🔥 been well argued that educational progressives' focus on "fixing" education has always been a distraction from acknowledging and addressing root issues of inequality, etc..; too much insistence on conflating educational reform as societal reform

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@plantfeest@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 20:21

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems I think it maybe as simple as start caring, then act upon the things you see are wrong. Also, solving problems is a creative skill not necessarily taught in school. Classically, the scientific paradigm is analytic: pick the problem space apart. The solution space is something entirely different, and can be accessed through creative endeavours such as art and impro. Yes, and.. and failing forward are excellent methods, typically dismissed by classic science thinking.

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