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Steve Wolf's avatar

Stupidity is underwritten by standardization, so this vacuous slipstream predated hyperconnection and instant gratification by several decades, when the likes of Rockefeller knew a captive population in school would be perfect meat for the machine if they were encouraged to be obedient and compliant drones, the perfect prelude for a later uncritical employee.

If kids are incentivised to copy and memorize, not explore and create, then it's only the most deviant, bloodyminded and persistent that are going to bust through the algorithmic crust and dilate on difference and depth.

Everyone else will be dutiful, programmed automatons, a production line that gets more refined with each quarterly report, now bathed in a fragmented, distracted and glitched out by digital static.

Justin Schroder's avatar

Preach!

I've been struggling to read more and it's annoying as hell to stare at a page for ten minutes "reading" nothing.

The trick seems to be reading as fast as possible until the Brain engages. Then the comprehension will begin to grow.

Happy New Year!

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