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there are structural problems that we, collectively, don't want to face. like the fact that educational funding is tied to local property taxes, which makes it an inevitable mirror of the class order; that the internal organization of school systems reproduces an outmoded class model; the ongoing reactionary political climate and it's effects on parents; inadequate funding or education as a whole which follows from a system-level choice to divert enormous resources into military expenditures rather than into creating and maintaining anything remotely like an equitable model of cultural distribution; a top-down political system that conceals it's nature by evacuating terms like democracy of any content, a fact that is nowhere more obvious than in education, which should be producing people capable of critical judgment as fundamental to a democratic polity, but instead runs away from this, preferring to imprint passivity and obedience because in the immediate run it's safer.
these follow from basically fucked up priorities which in turn follow from a basically fucked up view of the world, of politics and of people--particularly the latter. if you view people as a management problem and not as the center of what makes a system viable, you are producing your own collapse.
i think people focus too much on effects, on little things and pseudo-solutions tied to them.
greasing the wheel of implosion by being unable to think beyond what they're told the problems are.
yay.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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