This is straightforward, Owen, Just keep in mind that _everything_ is done with one motive: to get points with the Mob, so that they will keep you installed to give money to the oligarchs. They have no other agenda, and don’t care about anything else. All the rest is just part of the public show, and just tools of the trade.
The Mob has been given a talking-theme about hating higher education (which for many wasn’t a hard sell to begin with), so any kind of explicit attack on it, which would drive down numbers and impair or kill off schools, will gain points with them. Some of it will work to drive out highly educated foreigners, which are another attack group. This is just a replay of “Jewish science” in 1930s Germany; one need not even search for a new social model. It’s like the pesticide allowances. If there were a chemical that made people stupid and aggressive, don’t you think there would be a republican-sponsored bill before both houses of congress to have it injected into every water supply in the country? No more blue states to have to get around. Demolition of primary education was a more labor-intensive route to that end, but we now have to live at least a generation with its effects. The issue is how we respond. I have heard that when monkeys are being attacked and castrated by aggressors, they don’t scream or make other shows. Screaming is for when a fight might still be avoided by a display. When the fight has been committed, your energy is more urgently needed for other things. I like the operation-oriented materials in Marsicano’s feed. That is all public performance, too, and we know it, so you use it as part of the tool set. Eric > On Nov 19, 2017, at 7:01 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > > I was surprised to find out that the "tax cuts" actually impose increased > taxes in important sectors. Grad students? Yup. > > Melanie Mitchell retweeted this: > https://twitter.com/ChrisMarsicano/status/931953249091022848 > > It's so weird. Traveling here in europe where schools are affordable, & > health care too .. why are we trying to destroy such valuable resources? > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
