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The moonlit piglet provides dispatches from the carcass of public education. Most disconcerting of all is the fact that he knows he cannot speak any truth to the kids whose lives it is ruining without being immediately and severely punished. Add to this the fact that the younger ones can arbitrarily be forced to bind their faces with masks and you have a banal, ever-present system of repression managed by smiling government employees. The school system has become a dystopian archipelago of behavioral brain-washing. Reform? OK, but first, get your kids the hell out of there.

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What happened to the FITs?

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Parents are failures here, not the schools, really. I have written it before, if you don't set the gender norms for your children, someone else will, and I guarantee you those people will not have your children's best interests as motivators. What we are seeing is a complete abdication of parental responsibility.

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Simone Weil: "Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized." An intimate province of meaning, or personal language game is different from a public one. As I walk out the door and go to work, my priors, the things I take for granted and my expectations begin to adjust to the public world, I should say. The cognitive/social adjustment that we make in transitioning from home to outside of home has little to do with distance or space, to be more general. So remote is not doing much work here. The shift in language games does however impinge on time. How I manage and conceive of time differs radically in these two general spheres. The face-to-face relation I have with my banker differs from those I have at home whether I can smell his bad breath or he is a thumbnail on Zoom. In public relations I will have to apply pattern recognition, typification and adopt various gradations of anonymity -- techniques that make no sense and have no role once I return home.

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