they're building the map that perfectly covers the territory, from the borges story "wouldn't it be fucked up if there was a map that perfectly covered the territory"

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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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This is really the key political development of the last 15 years, and there are waaayyyy too many people working in politics and media who don't have the stomach to just state it plainly. A lot of the other conversations happening right now are just tangential to this

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My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

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I think the t shirt should say YES I DISAVOW THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WHY ARE YOU ASKING? He could wear it with a blazer. A little Miami vice. A little Y2K. He could pull it off. Making a stylish joke of the whole thing might be just the ticket.

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