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Seems to me, we're continuing down.
I was wondering the same with all the shifts coming up....
I’ve been thinking about all the burnt out authority figures and structures after Saturn in Capricorn and Aquarius. Parents, teachers, law enforcement. You name it.
I also wonder if traditional school will be a thing in a few years. I wonder if there’s a point in the near future where compulsory ed won’t be compulsory. If the whole thing will just be scrapped. And what, if anything will take it’s place.
@buendia I think this is underway. We got to point where you needed some kind of "certification" or degree to get pretty much any job. I understand these restrictions are being lifted here and there... employers want talent, wherever they can find it.
@elsa smart, considering what people can teach themselves, and learning on the job.
I wonder what the trickle down will look like. For the longest time, primary and secondary ed was geared towards those certifications. When it’s not, what then? Do kids 5-18 go to school? Do we throw away the veneer and call it daycare? If not, do parents go to work, watch their kids? And so on.
Open questions for anyone.
@buendia If it continues as it's going, I think babies / young children will be evaluated for aptitude by whatever method and put on track / trained to work for the state (in whatever form).
It will be just like everything else. Compartmentalized. Very, very few will have broad knowledge and no one will have "life experience", outside a video game.
I've been talking about myopia for years... just the gaze at a cell phone, which tricks you into thinking you're "out there". No, no, no, no.
People who really want to have kids and strong families will have to break away from the system... cooperate with each other, akin to how the Amish do.
@elsa this goes back to what I was thinking about burnt out authority. Will the state still even exist to evaluate, track, place? Or even, will tech still exist, and increase? Or decrease? I wonder if there’s any possible recovery for authority as we’ve known it collectively in our lifetimes…it seems completely spent
@buendia I don't think the "state" as we think know it, exists now. These people are as replaceable as we are. Easier to replace, actually. They do no actual labor, so a CGI is plenty.
@elsa I think “the state” is like a machine on autopilot or a runaway machine or vehicle. So you can want to get it and change it or fight it but it fights back, absorbs you, or eats you.
@libra-noir Yes, it's just a bunch of theatre - photo ops. They show you how easy this is to do.
There is a comedy series, "Hacks". The star is on the road, middle of nowhere. They throw up a 3ft wide "set" in the middle of the desert and she does her QVC spot. It looks perfect.
It's a revelation when you realize you are seeing something contrived, wherever you look.
You're lucky you cut hair, just because it allows you to see and interact with real people. People look at fake people all their life, so they can't tell.
This is why being deprived of a TV is one of the best things that every happened to me. I see this stuff, readily. We really don't look at other human beings very often. And when we do, there's lots of makeup and angles involved.
And then the costumes. There is a dude out there, playing a conservative, with a Pabst Blue Ribbon cap on. Are you kidding me.
And all these famous regional cooks with their spiels... fake af. I know people can't see this but damn it, they might try a little harder.
@elsa There’s this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/QY643FPMvRY?feature=share
And yes, I am blessed that I talk to real human beings. I TOUCH them. We talk and I see that it does seem to be about five percent that know wtf is going on.
@elsa I can see this happening: the compartmentalization and the resulting counterculture of breaking away.
@allie120 That reminds me of the response/advice an "old" counter culture figure gave to a class that wrote letters to public figures as a class assignment.
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut
@jana omg that’s incredible!
You’re a Capricorn, right? 100% you embody this, simply by sharing this story, passing this on.
Thank you! I love this.
I’ve read and heard that the patriarchy is falling (which I feel relates to your ideas on authority, Buendia). It seems that way to me too. I think what’s coming in to replace it is something that we don’t even have the language for yet (logos ya know?).
I think whatever is will take a while to stabilize and balance itself out. Maybe because I’m a Libra, I tend to see things as always wanting to achieve equilibrium.
Here's trickery for you. The accuser and the accused are the same person, playing both roles. People believe it all day long, all around the world.
This is where we're at. So growing up in a world like this, trusting, your odds of figuring this out is about zero, unless you have help. The help is out there at this point. They are showing you, all over the place, but you do need to take a minute and look. 