Post AWAB3DD2Em3sNphdA0 by Benfell@hcommons.social
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(DIR) Post #AWAB3DD2Em3sNphdA0 by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T00:00:02Z
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Work https://disunitedstates.com/24679-2
(DIR) Post #AWAKKajOw3DvqWCglM by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T01:20:59Z
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@jeff 1/2 Well, that's a little short of 'mandatory,' and it's also older than the early 2000s.There was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. got worried about competing with the Soviet Union and we really started encouraging kids to go to school. This was a recognition of education as a public rather than a private benefit.As the Soviet threat receded, and as neoliberalism took hold, we decided education was an individual benefit, and we started financing education with student loans, allowing college costs to skyrocket and saddling students with ludicrous amounts of debt. That the government guaranteed the loans and kept interest rates relatively low for unsecured debt was the sole remaining concession to the notion of a public benefit.Anti-intellectualism, always a major force in the U.S., has been on the rise ever since.
(DIR) Post #AWAKKckBS72Q5WaLGC by Inginsub@clubcyberia.co
2023-05-30T01:44:52.276276Z
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@Benfell @jeff >1/2raped and gaped
(DIR) Post #AWAKKdRQrJdIFeosfg by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T01:25:41Z
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@jeff 2/2 As my own example painfully demonstrates, an education is no guarantee of a job. And that's how it should be.To make it so is to reduce education to job training, hence an individual benefit, when a neglected value to society of an educated population comes in exposure to the humanities and the social sciences, via general education requirements.That said, the anti-intellectualism in this society has reached a point where education is often a detriment to job prospects: Employers increasingly prefer idiots who will follow rather than question orders.
(DIR) Post #AWBnl3CQKg0ENpcRWq by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T01:42:11Z
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@jeff Which explains your defense of anti-intellectualism. Bye.
(DIR) Post #AWBnl3lsCsMK9mCkme by nach@bae.st
2023-05-30T18:49:21.832613Z
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@Benfell @Benfell @jeff >Which explains your defense of anti-intellectualism. Bye.b-baka!baka.gif
(DIR) Post #AWQXZzGDx5jr5RUwc4 by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T19:21:07.630619Z
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@nach @Benfell yeah it do be that way tbh
(DIR) Post #AWQXaOA3NAeoJXnrxw by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:57:43.637654Z
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@Inginsub @Benfell dont make it any gayer than it already is dude
(DIR) Post #AWQXauEm79RpnSG5lg by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:43:03.593898Z
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@Benfell your lack of humility is regrettable but not a surprise to anyone.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb1TvBEisGSOmqe by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:23:07.573429Z
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@Benfell the institutions are run by idiots. you can brandish opposition to intellectual and cultural orthodoxy with any term you want to be it "anti intellectualism" or whatever non normative buzzwords that end up being churned out the outcome is the same regardless.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb22J7OEDz6UFRg by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:28:12.489024Z
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@Benfell this outcome of blind obedience was desired and 9/11 gave the machine an excuse to implement it.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb2LnwtpAxZbops by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T01:38:44Z
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@jeff Anti-intellectualism does not mean opposition to academic orthodoxy.It is, to borrow and slightly mangle Isaac Asimov, "the false notion . . . that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84250-anti-intellectualism-has-been-a-constant-thread-winding-its-way-throughIt conflates learning of academic elites with the nepotism, incompetence, and arrogance often characteristic of religious, economic, military, and political elites. (For this, see Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (New York: Crown, 2012).) Which is to say, it takes two exactly opposite things and declares them one and the same.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb3nUZRZ9RjZRdA by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:26:12.479950Z
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@Benfell please try to understand, the angst and contempt for the post cold war leadership of the west by their constituents are legitimate and earned. the true failure is the lack of humility to admit there were mistakes made.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb3pyQDYDZQjQUy by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:40:56.149067Z
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@Benfell the most insufferably vain part of that notion is the assumption of there being equal or greater value in the knowledge gained from higher education.
(DIR) Post #AWQXb4a3esPjsMIEKW by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:30:45.268616Z
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@Benfell after tankman, the PLA rolled up 30 years of human intelligence networks in about 2 months. the permanently retarded brass at the CIA wanted to be able to compete with that kind of opponent domestically. i conjecture, this was their solution to their deranged anti human aspirations.
(DIR) Post #AWQXbBxiDKUilkPifg by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T00:03:06.586087Z
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@Benfell the value of a college degree went down when higher education was made mandatory.
(DIR) Post #AWQXbEXEeE68kV37Jo by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-05-30T01:06:30Z
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@jeff Who made higher education (meaning college and university) mandatory when?
(DIR) Post #AWQXbGDoNPkVypydJw by jeff@federated.fun
2023-05-30T01:09:35.317422Z
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@Benfell it was a huge cultural shift where everyone in my generation was sold the "go to college and you'll be fine" world view. most people should not go to college but for some reason it was seen as abnormal to not in the social environment of the era of the early 2000s