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I think what didn't jive with me for public school was seeing how kids could be rewarded by technically following rules, while also doing things which seemed morally repugnant. I was bullied a lot, and I found that sometimes the same kids who would bully me were the ones who would get in the teachers' good graces.  The fact that you could do really well by gaming the system, instead of promoting fairness and honesty, left me with some strange suspicion.

The next point would probably be that I had a lot of initiative and enthusiasm for learning and exploring, but that it would often get me into trouble, such as being singled out as a troublemaker, and ending up with my desk facing the wall, for example. I didn't understand if it was because I was misbehaving, or just inferior such that my ideas weren't good enough. I likely didn't have the patience to sit through classes, and didn't have the disposition to try to do something that wasn't different, even though I was somewhat obsessed with wanting to be "average" so that I could eventually find love / acceptance or what have you.

It was especially clear after having fallen into the role of mentor countless times (often with people who had been perfectly molded to participate with normalcy, every step of their lives, and then later as a guitar/music teacher and a personal trainer) that the people's unrelenting compulsion to worry as to whether or not their actions are compliant with "normalcy" was, in a sense, a mental illness which prevented them from achieving higher levels of performance, or even simply identifying what in the world their thoughts, interests and values are. 

The class model seems to fall short (though it has its uses, particularly for performance, group activities, and playing enough games to see the meta game) when it comes to overall development. I think that we're at the point where technology allows us to be resourceful and give people the individual attention they really need, in the amounts they require, and no more, and that this alone could lead to such a massive improvement in society and culture. This is a criticism of both private and public education.

You're very kind.. my writing style is a product of my parents and the fact that I spent too many hours on the internet chatting with women who were twice my age (when I was a teenager - this was my socialization). I did really well in elementary school, not as well in middle school, and awful in high school (I managed to pass, but mostly because I was known for being really sick - I missed 110 full days of school in my senior year).

Do you mean to say you didn't graduate from school? I'm curious about what your experiences were.

I wonder about Florida too. If it's just a perfectly crafted piece for the puzzle, then I still prefer it to where I am, if only because the spirit of freedom burns a bit brighter there (even just as opinion among Floridians). I'd have to assume that things are expertly organized, but I've also worked both in public sector in administration/policy, and privately in things creative (music) and technical (engineering). There is a massive hole in the perspectives of policy planners. They aren't able to grok what it takes for things to work, the distance between a precise system and a deployed system (the former doesn't seem to exist, but the planners easily conflate the two, whereas the engineers obsess over the error margins that are otherwise ignored). I think that, for that reason, nothing will ever work as well as they hope it does, and that creates critical movement to occur.

Now, all that said, it's likely that the march towards absolute domination is done iteratively, and that this whole covid fiasco isn't meant to result in that final state of explicit totalitarianism. It may have been the most perfect adjustment of the bar.

Canadian doctor - I believe his name is Charles Hoffe. Interesting that the victims had a high representation of Indigenous people. They often have poor health these days. So many are on the street here - I used to know many of them, and would hang out with them in the downtown market, smoke weed with them, play guitar, etc... I grew up going to a church, and there was a very liberal, upper middle class couple who adopted an Inuit boy. They provided things to him which most of the Inuit community would never be able to, but nevertheless - within time, he was on the streets in those that downtown market as well. Spending nights in the homeless shelter, and scavenging for crack and alcohol during the day. Their culture has been raped, and the whole set of Indigenous/Inuit government initiatives are so wasteful and patronizing that I feel it does little except reward them with tokens of frivolty for claiming a victim status.

I always think back to this time I was hired to play classical guitar for some University of Ottawa professors who were hosting their daughter's wedding. Their daughter was also an assistant professor (mostly climate change related), and they were staunch atheists. Except, they also deal with the indigenous community, because they drag them around everywhere for climate change committees, because it somehow replaces science if you parade around with noble savages. Anyway, I found it so fitting that these atheists would bring an Indigenous elder to their wedding, so they could have them perform a land acknowledgment and then bless their event with mysticism. These types of atheists slurp up every drop of metaphysical koolaid, so long as it's politically en vogue. They probably even believe in it, at that moment, since they're permitted.

Not to go off on a tangent, but that's I think that just paints a picture of why I think these central planners, in spite of their carefully formulated plans, and well mapped out alliances, are still always prone to critical blindspots. They don't know how to test if their things actually work, they just need to be patted on the back enough times to keep up the fascade.

In spite of that, you bring up the problem of this being a "long game". They are most certainly playing that long game. I don't know if Reiner is correct in assuming they've jumped the gun and acted sooner than anticipated (one wonders if the virus was well planned, or if they'd just been waiting for the right event to be instantiated).

I'm worried about quarantine camps and prisons, too. Especially with Bill C-36 being proposed, here, which turns us all into criminals (well, offenders of a Human Rights Commission's code, but it sets up the right path). I just don't know if they have particular use for the calories, this time around. If the same degree of infringement were to be imposed, I'm not sure what it would look like. What utility would they be able to extract?


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