Thanks for the shout-out and share of my video essay, brother! We need more voice and DEFINITELY more exit from the fully evil institutions. They are fifth columns in our society and the fact that they can draw on taxpayer funds by force like vampires while promoting such a wholly destructive ideology is beyond mere injustice to downright criminality.
BTW, we re-posted the essay on Dad Saves America with a few modifications, and it's found a great audience there. More to come like this next week! Here's the new link: https://youtu.be/6noX5AUuzwU?si=_Boee_5gP6AnH0qA
It is an uphill battle. Any truly independent school has to finance student loans without federal help. And it has to hire professors willing to work without government grants.
If you're going to use Underthrow's comments as a place to promote pet projects, I'd ask kindly that, at least, the link goes somewhere with content. This is a GoDaddy placeholder.
Sorry Max try again. It needed to refresh through godaddy.
And there is nothing to promote and it isn't a pet project. We have about $10,000 into it and no way to gain it back, nor do we care. It is a solution to the problems. We need to make new systems that make the old ones obsolete. High trust systems. Transparent systems. Decentralized systems. And swarms solve problems better than individuals or even language model ai.
Once you see it - and you eventually will - you will wish you took the time to understand it sooner. This comment wasn't directed to the readers, it was purely for you.
The existence of identity politics isn’t just because Marcuse, et al. wrote some leaden prose books in the 60s--it’s directly connected to the existence of multiethnic societies. A color blind society seems about as realistic as communism.
As you may know, I quit two teaching jobs at Universities (one in California, one in the UK) during the recent Nonsense. It wasn't for the reasons you cite above - it was a matter of principle more than anything - but nonetheless the sense that the university as a concept had collapsed was unavoidable. I wrote about this from a very different perspective to yours back in September, not sure if you saw it:
Btw that video from John Papola is excellent. First class. I appreciate the advice at the end about parenting, I agree with and practice most of his tenets/principles, and in our case add regular church attendance, even though I am not personally super religious. Its about history, tradition, morals and ritual.
One thing I am very keen on, in particular, is to make sure we say grace before every dinner. This is one way to keep our family focus on humility and gratitude, so that our kids have some tools to resist cynicism, and especially resentment, that certain actors will try to teach them later in life.
Yes certainly. I don't know how to do that without religion, but I am sure you will find a way. I was raised as a church goer, but as an engineer (applied scientist) I am inherently skeptical. I have to come to believe in God although I don't really buy all the Christian arc narratives, but I believe in all the moral teachings. I also want my kids to get a good grounding in bible stories as they underpin so much of our basic history and culture. I can say, its all paying off so far.
Excellent. Love this.
Thanks for the shout-out and share of my video essay, brother! We need more voice and DEFINITELY more exit from the fully evil institutions. They are fifth columns in our society and the fact that they can draw on taxpayer funds by force like vampires while promoting such a wholly destructive ideology is beyond mere injustice to downright criminality.
BTW, we re-posted the essay on Dad Saves America with a few modifications, and it's found a great audience there. More to come like this next week! Here's the new link: https://youtu.be/6noX5AUuzwU?si=_Boee_5gP6AnH0qA
Dennis and Rick could fix this! Love you, brother!
It is an uphill battle. Any truly independent school has to finance student loans without federal help. And it has to hire professors willing to work without government grants.
Create new Academies that make the old ones obsolete.
Same answer for all of our corrupt systems.
SwarmAcademy.ai
If you're going to use Underthrow's comments as a place to promote pet projects, I'd ask kindly that, at least, the link goes somewhere with content. This is a GoDaddy placeholder.
Sorry Max try again. It needed to refresh through godaddy.
And there is nothing to promote and it isn't a pet project. We have about $10,000 into it and no way to gain it back, nor do we care. It is a solution to the problems. We need to make new systems that make the old ones obsolete. High trust systems. Transparent systems. Decentralized systems. And swarms solve problems better than individuals or even language model ai.
Once you see it - and you eventually will - you will wish you took the time to understand it sooner. This comment wasn't directed to the readers, it was purely for you.
"This comment wasn't directed to the readers, it was purely for you." Best to use email, then.
The existence of identity politics isn’t just because Marcuse, et al. wrote some leaden prose books in the 60s--it’s directly connected to the existence of multiethnic societies. A color blind society seems about as realistic as communism.
As you may know, I quit two teaching jobs at Universities (one in California, one in the UK) during the recent Nonsense. It wasn't for the reasons you cite above - it was a matter of principle more than anything - but nonetheless the sense that the university as a concept had collapsed was unavoidable. I wrote about this from a very different perspective to yours back in September, not sure if you saw it:
https://strangerworlds.substack.com/p/after-universities
Btw that video from John Papola is excellent. First class. I appreciate the advice at the end about parenting, I agree with and practice most of his tenets/principles, and in our case add regular church attendance, even though I am not personally super religious. Its about history, tradition, morals and ritual.
Same. My thing is: if I'm going to raise them in a secular home, then I need to find a way to teach them basic morals.
One thing I am very keen on, in particular, is to make sure we say grace before every dinner. This is one way to keep our family focus on humility and gratitude, so that our kids have some tools to resist cynicism, and especially resentment, that certain actors will try to teach them later in life.
Yes certainly. I don't know how to do that without religion, but I am sure you will find a way. I was raised as a church goer, but as an engineer (applied scientist) I am inherently skeptical. I have to come to believe in God although I don't really buy all the Christian arc narratives, but I believe in all the moral teachings. I also want my kids to get a good grounding in bible stories as they underpin so much of our basic history and culture. I can say, its all paying off so far.
Well done, sir.
I don't think it's an accident that the Golden Rule appears in nearly every tradition. The Christian version is a good one.