On-Line Teaching; The Road To Serfdom

Chase the following link to an excellent article on this:

The Computer Delusion

Let's Destroy "Credential Hell."

Face it. In the last 40 years it has become necessary to secure a "credential" to take a shit. This has increased unemployment and lined the pockets of the schools. Time for it to end.

Degree or Knowledge?

Anarchy and Education

"I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.” - John Taylor Gatto

“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.” - Lucy Parsons

Imagine that, manage themselves. No credentialed drones to bore them into lassitude and despair. - mce

Mark Twain

"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty." I would add: massive debt, indentured servitude and unemployment. Except as credentialing factories, universities are dinosaurs waiting for the asteroid, which - one hopes - will arrive soon. - mce

Student Loan Thoughts

Let student loan interest rates rise to market levels. That should make the 60% of students who shouldn't be in college think twice. And for the love of Emma Goldman, do not help your kids pay them off or let them live at home for free while they do.

By the way, do you know how much plumbers and electricians make by doing honest labor? Call some and find out. You can't outsource shit or wires. Just a thought.

My Politics

I am often asked about my politics. The answer is simple: I have none. I am an anarchist, but that is a state of mind, not politics.
The Left, the Right, and the Middle have devolved into fanatics or sheeple. None of them has had an original idea in decades. They are walking corpses.
As for democracy, forget it. The rich ate it de facto well before the Supreme Court institutionalized Oligarchy in the Citizens United case.
Forget that 60s bullshit about being part of the problem or part of the solution. The US is now too dysfunctional and cowed to come up with solutions.
I am an iconoclast, first and last.
There is nothing else left to be.
As I see it, if you don't offend someone everyday, you are not alive. The culture of Nice and Political Correctness are the culture of numbness and death. Offend whenever possible. Make the hooples mad and they might think. Worth a try.

Slight Praise for the Great Cultural Revolution

Mao's Great Cultural Revolution was primarily a disaster, but it had one good idea. All of the elites: doctors, lawyers, merchants, intellectuals had, from time to time, to go and live with, work with, and share the hardships of the peasants. Bravo!
Can you imagine that now? Bankers, professors, politicians, lawyers, businessmen, the whole polluted crew having to eat bad food, work long hours, get dirty, have no cell phones, internet, etc. Half of them would die or go mad, neither a bad thing.
Doubtful, but we can hope.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." »» Thomas Jefferson

In general, Americans have drunk the Calvinist kool aid and believe that work, and ever more of it, is virtuous. Bunk! Capitalism creates slaves. It is not the function of slaves to enjoy themselves. If they take a vacation at all, it is to stay home and paint the house.

Here is a link to an article that takes issue with that notion:

Leisure? We don't need no stinking leisure.

Paidea Proposal Synopsis

Link: A good short synopsis of Adler's Paideia Proposal. So simple. So dead on.
Blog: Wide Awake Minds
Link: Excerpts from Adler's Paidea Proposal