Pizza boy living in the future, with narrow eyes.

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Conspiracy Theory: The "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" episode of Star Trek was an elaborate insult at scifi nerds who only communicate in media references.

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yes. conservatives looked at the american experiment in mass, high quality education over the course of the 20th century and concluded that it was a failure that threatened to overturn existing hierarchies of status.

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the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

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