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@Devon_Eriksen_ - Devon Eriksen

Some of you may be wondering why the entire bureaucratic caste of the USA is completely obsessed with weird sex stuff. Sure, we can all have good fun ranting about how insane this cult is, and watching them melt down when we leave skid marks on their sacred icons, but sooner or later, you gotta ask... why. It's the toaster-fucker problem. Some of you may be familiar. Goes like this, and I quote: I blame the internet. Back in the days before it, we had to learn to live with those around us, now you can just go out and find someone as equally stupid as yourself. I call it the toaster fucker problem. Man wakes up in 1980, tells his friends "I want to fuck a toaster" Friends quite rightly berate and laugh at him, guy deals with it, maybe gets some therapy and goes on a bit better adjusted. Guy in 2021 tells his friends that he wants to fuck a toaster, gets laughed at, immediately jumps on facebook and finds "Toaster Fucker Support group" where he reads that he's actually oppressed and he needs to cut out everyone around him and should only listen to his fellow toaster fuckers. Apply this analogy to literally any insular bubble, it applies as equally to /r/thedonald as it does to the emaciated Che Guevara larpers that cry thinking about ringing their favourite pizza place. But the toaster fucker problem doesn't stop there. Because every social group has an axis of prestige. They have to compete with each other for status somehow. That's what humans do. And in the toaster-fucking group, the axis of prestige aligns with fucking toasters. So first they compete to see who can fuck the most toasters. Then, when that is saturated, they one up each other by being most open with the general public about their toaster fucking ways. Then they make toaster-fucker pride t-shirts and hats and bumper stickers. Then they move on to bragging about how they sneak into other people's kitchens and fuck their toasters, too, and swap tips for how to introduce kids to the joys of toaster-fucking. But it doesn't stop there, either. Pretty soon normal people, who ten years before would shrugged and said "that's weird", are now sick of toaster-fucker flags everywhere and their kids being told to fuck toasters by sickos, and now they're going to burn every toaster-fucker flag they see, and Florida just passed a law requiring you to be 21 years old with proof of ID to buy a toaster. And Utah has banned toasters altogether and the Mormons have stopped even eating toast, bagels, waffles, or any other heated bread product. But it doesn't stop there, either. Because a few toaster-fuckers get beaten with fence posts by people sick of hearing about toaster-fucking, and other people, who didn't see or hear the toaster-fuckers' prior behavior, say "holy shit, toaster fuckers really are oppressed". And they decide to become "toaster-fucker allies", despite the fact that they haven't the slightest real interest in fucking any toasters themselves. But it doesn't stop there. Because toaster-fucking has become a sacred cause, it must now must compete with other sacred causes for the minds of highly programmable non-player characters, and there are clashes in the streets between the Toaster Fucker Pride March and the Stop Raccoon Shaving protests. This is what "go outside and touch grass" really means. It doesn't mean that plants magically cure insanity, it means go encounter randomly selected people who have nothing to do with you other than geographic proximity. The purpose of this is to remember what normal people are like, and what normalcy is. It's not that normal people don't do weird things. Maybe they like their pancakes with ketchup. Maybe they consider midgets to be the height of sex appeal. Maybe they never wash their socks, but just throw them away and buy more instead. What makes normal people normal is that they keep that shit to themselves when it isn't relevant. Like when you're an institute for space exploration. Not toaster fucking. Space exploration. Remember?

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@Devon_Eriksen_ - Devon Eriksen

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves. Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life. A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time. And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood. Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant: A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person. Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity: - Arithmetic - Geometry - Music - Astronomy - Grammar - Logic - Rhetoric These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point. The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn. By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters? Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"? That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade. A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own. If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men. If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them. In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are: - Logic: how to derive truth from known facts - Statistics: how to understand the implications of data - Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics - Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject - (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others - Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets - Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it. Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies. That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves. Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.