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When I got sick this year (again and again), it compressed my priorities, but I usually write an education article once a month or so. Recent readers may not have seen them.

https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=rounding_the_earth:the_education_wars

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Although there's probably a mixture of Hanlon's Razor incompetence and malign intent, and it would be too simplistic to presume that it is all on purpose, it certainly looks that way, as it is not just the non-adoption of methods that are proven to create thinking, creative individuals, but the active repression of those. Plus crazy obvious shit, like a black eating disorders specialist becoming the dean of the engineering department at San Francisco State. After standardized testing, they got rid of recess to teach to the test. The kids who couldn't sit still, particularly the black kids on the East coast, whose physical development is precocious, according to child development scholars, they then diagnosed and drugged. Now we've got the UN disseminating woke gender and sexuality educational materials, plus the Inner Development Goals (those little rainbow circles the oligarchs and young global leaders wear) in higher education. (https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/)Scotland, which is 96 per cent white, is getting DEI and CRT and gender pushed into their education system. And BC and Chico, CA are actively separating kids from parents, with parents having little voice. Here's what happened to this UK middle school teacher who had embodied studies ala forest kindergartens.

As the U.K.’s Only Headteacher to Question Vaccinating and Masking Children I Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/16/as-the-u-k-s-only-headteacher-to-question-vaccinating-and-masking-children-i-was-investigated-by-counter-terrorism-agencies/

Steve should give it to you!

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The "how much and how is the game rigged, and by whom" questions are challenging, and that we might ask how much is planned and how much is the ignorance of people in high positions suggests that we should focus on a strong epistemological effort. Even if Hanlon's razor is sometimes correct, calling it a razor makes it a thought-terminating cliche, and that's something to fight against.

Always dig at the roots.

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I think there’s clearly a mixture of both, but separating the two is almost impossible to do with absolute clarity, unless there is a “smoking gun”.

The big question for me, is how wide spread is this kind of fraud throughout society. When we see “smoking gun” events, such as 9-11, are we witnessing an isolated crime, or are we getting a glimpse of a much larger problem.

And I wonder how much of the social controversy that consumes so much of our political dialog was engineered to be a distraction.

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