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In the end, we are all just peasants in this world manipulated by the privileged elites.

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Education as a selection of obedience and discipline?

Most Asians are just opportunisitic, they see education as an opportunity to accumulate wealth, but if you look for the billionaire Asian businessmen, many are does not have univeristy degree.

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Most parents see college or university as a path to paradise, in which is not the case. Money has become our official religion,  industrial civilization has created an illusion that if we take certain initiatives, we will have success. That path is pretty narrow for us, go to college, get a degree, get a 9 to 5, get married, get ahead by accumulating the most wealth, have children and die. Does the student these days have time to think what they want in life? Or are we just part of someone else's plan?

Here is my story, I have recently gone by to college to take a few courses. The first few weeks I demostrated the usual exuburance of a returning student, as week goes by, the intellectual curiosity dwindles. I used to read an hour a day leisurely, but due to the college cirrculem,  I am unable to do this anymore. I am forced to cram my brain with knowledge and the lack of interest. I am sure many feel the same when going to school, but none take a stand, why? Because media and our parents tell us if we can go through with education, we can be qualified for society.  In the end, we are a bunch of sheeps being herded like livestocks.

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    Interesting thought, I bet you think kids with ideals are too simple sometimes naive, I understand that money is power, when you enter the workforce, you just try relentlessly to climb the social hierarchy. As peasants, you will always lose this game, there will always be someone who are younger, faster and stronger who can take your place. My doctrine is you can't lose if you don't play. I always let people around me know that, I get a certain respect for this, my parents take it very hard though. I just don't want to be part of this mass propagnda, mass education, mass media system where they brain-wash you into oblivion. Capitalism is like catching machine hares in a maze, when you succeed, there is more to catch. Very tiring.

Actually it is the intolerance and bigotry from the industrial people that I come to hate, their assertiveness think their way is the best and only way. I am actually in search of this egalitarian paradise, and found it is only prevalent in hunter-gatherer society. Industrial society with it's social caste system is actually democracy branded as feudalism. Our civilization is moving way to fast, it is growing wide in vastness rather than testing the length of time. We are sprinting our way into a brick wall, rather than slowly maneuvering our human vessel.  

This bring us to the new question: To conform or not to conform.







Listen to the 毛里求斯 turtle part.

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People might accuse me of being a misanthorpe, but I don't see productivity in society as merit. Actually theres is a character in Generation Kill, this US army TV show produced by HBO about the Iraq war, this Latin American militant went to college, got a diploma, and ripped it all up, he comment, he doesn't need a certificate from the White Man to tell him he is worthy of society.

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    I don't think kids with ideals are naive at all. I admire them. But I am not o ...
fibbi 發表於 2012-9-27 14:04

Extremism is great contrary to common misconception, would you rather fall within the Anglo-American melting pot of mediocrity?