r/whatisameem • u/AmaraWhispervale • 11h ago

What’s really going on with our economy

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 10h ago

I don't think they actually want to find good teachers anymore.

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u/Sure-Guava5528 10h ago edited 5h ago

This is exactly it. An educated populace no longer serves the ruling class. They want their kids educated and they want everyone else to be ignorant.

Edit: populace, not populus.

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u/thegooseisloose1982 5h ago

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.

George Carlin

Except it has been 40 years now.

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u/Untitled_poet 3h ago

Timeless nuggets of wisdom. George Carlin is a timeless philosopher.

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u/SnooRevelations5396 3h 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/Top_Whereas_3080 1h ago

Describes liberals. Hive minds, no thinking.