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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:40AM (#24834784)
> School is excellent at building the cohesive fabric of a society, including teaching it's boredom, authority, and pointless busywork.

I have a feeling that pointless busywork always grows to however much people can bear, so maybe if school didn't condition people to be so tolerant of it, we'd have less of it.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:13PM (#24843256)
https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/the...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by phobosanomaly on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:51AM (#24834858)
I dunno, I haven't see a whole lot of bearing at the DMV, but there's not an epidemic of concerned citizens showing up with molotovs and burning their local branch to the ground. Minneapolis' third precinct, sure, they burned that sucker right to the ground. But not the DMV, the icon of pointless bureaucracy.

And no matter where I've gone, from Honduras to Pakistan, to Germany, to San Bernardino, folks have been waiting in lines for things, and doing stuff that didn't really matter.

Doing stuff that sucks seems to be an unfortunate consequence of social organization for all of us normal folks who can't pay to skip the line.

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