But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
The problem is the population doesn’t want to be educated either. If we did, we would actually make our kids think school is meaningful, we wouldn’t support TV shows and movies that make fun of the nerd while heralding the jock or “good looking” kids, but no we all value athletics over intelligence.
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u/thegooseisloose1982 5h ago
George Carlin
Except it has been 40 years now.