My father was an army musician/pencil pusher and my mother an elementary school teacher for "Catholic" schools. Typical epimetheans, unthinking drones adapted to an un-American hierarchy and ethos of "always do what you're told".
I was a smart kid in school and would always get good grades and do well on tests. But I wasn't a very effective communicator and I didn't "play well with others", so I would constantly get in trouble and racked up quite a good number of detentions and suspensions. And my dumbass stereotypical boomer parents would always double down and defer to the communist educators and whatever other (((authority figures))) were most directly involved.
Those gangrenous golems did all kinds of awful shit to try and get me to behave. They put though a specialized school system meant for unruly children but had much poorer quality education. They had me ingest all sorts of nasty pills. They had me waste time with all sorts of useless psychiatrists. But did they ever consider the input of their own child? Nope, you're the child and they're the parents. Doesn't matter how smart you are or how stupid they are, don't you ever disobey or resist the authority figures. "Love thy neighbor", even if they're a destructive, instigating and/or incompetent pile of shit.
Of all the redpills I've swallowed over the years, by far the most bitter redpill of them all was the fact that even in so-called "free societies" like America our social dynamic does not reward competence or intelligence. What it rewards is obedience. And that is a recipe for the collapse of civilization. Because when competency and intelligence are pushed aside for empty feel-good platitudes like "kindness", "inclusion", and "social justice", pressing problems are not going to get solved.
And those capable of solving these problems certainly aren't even going to bother lifting a finger if the social dynamic relentlessly demonizes them as evil fill-in-the-blank-ists. They are simply going to throw grease on the fire and let the whole thing burn down.
Idiocracy wasn't a prophecy. It was a historical documentary.
My father was an army musician/pencil pusher and my mother an elementary school teacher for "Catholic" schools. Typical epimetheans, unthinking drones adapted to an un-American hierarchy and ethos of "always do what you're told".
I was a smart kid in school and would always get good grades and do well on tests. But I wasn't a very effective communicator and I didn't "play well with others", so I would constantly get in trouble and racked up quite a good number of detentions and suspensions. And my dumbass stereotypical boomer parents would always double down and defer to the communist educators and whatever other (((authority figures))) were most directly involved.
Those gangrenous golems did all kinds of awful shit to try and get me to behave. They put though a specialized school system meant for unruly children but had much poorer quality education. They had me ingest all sorts of nasty pills. They had me waste time with all sorts of useless psychiatrists. But did they ever consider the input of their own child? Nope, you're the child and they're the parents. Doesn't matter how smart you are or how stupid they are, don't you ever disobey or resist the authority figures. "Love thy neighbor", even if they're a destructive, instigating and/or incompetent pile of shit.
Of all the redpills I've swallowed over the years, by far the most bitter redpill of them all was the fact that even in so-called "free societies" like America our social dynamic does not reward competence or intelligence. What it rewards is obedience. And that is a recipe for the collapse of civilization. Because when competency and intelligence are pushed aside for empty feel-good platitudes like "kindness", "inclusion", and "social justice", pressing problems are not going to get solved.
And those capable of solving these problems certainly aren't even going to bother lifting a finger if the social dynamic relentlessly demonizes them as evil fill-in-the-blank-ists. They are simply going to throw grease on the fire and let the whole thing burn down.
Idiocracy wasn't a prophecy. It was a historical documentary.