The power of knowledge is unknown to most people, including you, perhaps.
I think under a more free government/corporate social structure, there'd be quite a lot less brainwashing in schools, and more learning, due to the sudden free-market aspect of schools being required to actually teach useful things, and not being able to simply force children to listen and obey.
Think libertarianism, anarchy, minarchy, or other concepts that require less law, less force, less manipulation, in order to still have a peaceful, decent society. These ideas are all explained, and if researched without bias, one would find that less government is not actually bad.
It is propaganda that would tell you that less government or less control is bad, of course.
People would have vastly more choices as far as what gets taught, and would actually be able to choose which classes and skills a person should learn, seeing as they'd have to pay for it, rather than being pressured to accept a "free gift".
Instead of 12 years of what is essentially social programming and a few classes that teach the most surface aspects of a useful skill, it would be learning only useful things, provided the market doesn't fail to select for schools that actually teach information that is good, true, and useful. This sort of society would take a bit more of an enlightened mass of people to actually succeed, so this truly does rely on people being able to make good decisions, rather than just mindlessly obey.
However, it would mean that people would become more educated to have more skills, and thus able to do better quality work for themselves and others.
You would be earning more money and creating more value for yourself and others if you had more skills, but instead of being seriously skilled to the maximum of your potential, how much time do you waste not knowing how to do things that would make your life and job easier? For example, can you write a computer programming script to make a repetitive job easier? Can just anyone? Or is this a thing you should've been taught how to do in school when you were a kid?
You might be a bit older than me, hypothetical reader, but even so, it's not as if most young people know how to use computers to their full power either. And if not computers, then it's repairing their car, or their household appliances, or even just understanding how to invent a useful new product, and then market it effectively.
If each person was skilled with scientific invention, as well as computer programming, then the things we're using right now, such as the computer you're at, would be vastly more accessible. I mean, if you think computers are useful now, imagine being able to build them, and then program a tool you 3D-printed to assist you in doing whatever it is you'd like to do.
I'm talkin' about robots. Simple, useful ones, to save you time, money, energy, allowing you to better enjoy your life in an age of technology and abundance.
As it is, isn't a lot of work obedience-for-money corporate servitude, rather than performing truly useful jobs that need to get done to maintain a healthy, advancing society?
In a technological age, it really can't be denied that we no longer live like feral animals in little huts.
We are far beyond that, and we shouldn't play a game of slavery or servitude towards people with vast fortunes or political/social power, when the truth is that we should simply have more intelligence and skills per-person, in such a manner as to have a surplus of value, but a lack of taxation-type-leeching.
Thus each person should have vastly more personal power, autonomy, as well as money, enabling you to get your healthcare needs taken care of, as well as far, far more. We are long past the age of needing to force people to obey us. We no longer need to be told what to do.
Instead, we should focus on completing important work, and ensuring that our lives are filled with enjoyment and happiness. We don't need to live as feral animals anymore, and suffer our entire lives, only to be manipulated with propaganda. We need to rise above this, and it starts with you.
You need to speak out, and demand that people who have the power to control others stop controlling others, and get real jobs instead. It must be done. Police, military, politicians, and financial schemers who don't actually contribute real work need to pack up and get a real job. Put down your gun or spreadsheets, and pick up a tool, and get working on serious stuff.
There is a glorious future to build.
~Kitten
there is the argument it's in the family and that has been dropped a while ago, general knowledge taught in schools is one thing, it's fine by itself, when you couple that with the skewed values and lazy governance you get the worst of both worlds, dumb controlled people.
There was a time when things were more inclusive and people were hanging out together rather than with a system, that's how skills were learned, from a relative, then to some friends now we are loosing connection little by little while we upscale it to the internet, so in the general sense we are more free while in reality we rarely see our teachers,
Still the technology is being misused in my view, just as education is, we are using marketing ploys and still aiming to control for the most part.
I agree people need to speak up, but more importantly show action and take their power back.
Autonomy is self rule after all, so don't abdicate your health or education to some "agency" neither your social or political life to "media" .. cutting off as not to make a post out of it :D
No need to cut. I like reading your ideas.
https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/2015-05-27--rms--chania--greece.ogg
here is someone rambling better than me :D I was wondering if you were, thank you for the consideration and for your time, also for being honest and open with your ideas
There is a part about schools from around the half an hour mark ..
I have to say I do agree with the Richard but he has massive conviction.
Yes, people can hardly get through to the computer itself these days. For instance, using Java means using the JVM, which is like living within a Matrix. Your code does not actually interface with the true CPU.
Perhaps a free form of Java would be acceptable, but that is not what I encounter in daily life. It is always oppression, and always compliance with existing corporate/government standards.
There must be a way to access the actual CPU, and know that the CPU does only what you tell it, and nothing else.
This requires knowledge and freedom. Absolute freedom. It is wrong to compromise on freedom, anonymity, privacy, and security.
We need to be far more adamant about maintaining freedom, in such a way that saying "No." is said more often than, "ok."
From what I've seen, it is obedience that is wrong and unethical, and the inability to make choices that is wrong and unethical.
The right choice is always freedom and personal autonomy, and each step that takes it away is worse than a step that grants more freedom and autonomy.
Yeah you have nailed it, pretty much what Richard had to say as well, I still find it hard to have a proper communication with most people, everyone sees things differently and has different lenses in the first place, most people have no conscious knowledge of them, how skewed their sights are.
I do agree that obedience is a problem, but in the current system only trolling it whenever possible is a option, if you stand up and make your point, other people mostly either don't get it or get herded into some mainstream view or whatever excuse, or the usual "those things are true, but that's not how it works" and all of them are right.
I'm still struggling with understanding the general concepts I suppose.
Still the usual solution is less of the bad and more of the good, what causes the problem, what is required that it is solved, those questions are left to knowledge, the more you know the better you understand it, the better you can act.
For some reason, life is funny that way
always something around the corner, probably nothing,
unless you aren't expecting anything, then surprise :)
I try to write from the perspective of a neutral observer.
I like to see only the truth, and not apply judgement or my own desires to it.
Reality is.
Yet there must be clear, solid reasons to desire freedom to persist.
Not just a fleeting spark of freedom, such as they do with open source software- where you get to see the source, but cannot modify it truly, but rather, a free software world where the source is truly open, modifiable, and not only that, but you cannot take information from the source, but not share it.
A person who uses previous good ideas to make a better idea should share the better idea. To keep it secret is a terrible thing, considering how dangerous technology can be.
Be it spying upon all whom exist, or being able to instantly exterminate entire cities, there are people with far too much power, and other people with very little power.
Thus there must be a moment of equalization.
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