Non-Conformity – Christina Taft

Ideas & Stopping Standardization – Different Future

Individualization & Limitless Potential? Strengths, not weaknesses.

I often have ideas, but unable to do anything about them.

There are several problems:

– Imaginary barriers of entry (educational system creates this)

– Standardization

We need individualism and to focus on people’s talents/strengths, not forcing them to repeatedly do things over and over for decades. Once is enough, or not at all.
Imagine if the old days of talent and crafting was used in a different way – but with Artificial Intelligence allowing people to skip grades, skip degrees, and not take the classes that they don’t need.
- Levels, I guess… and no need for student debt.
- The hardest part about this is that the system makes profit off of holding people back. Not only a middle class barrier, but also a barrier that keeps the richest at the top in a hierarchy, forcing people below them to learn about guess what – THEIR PRODUCTS, THEIR BUSINESSES, and THEIR THEORIES… not yours.
  - Boards, certain ones, and licenses can also be dangerous with limiting potential
- “Behaviorism” – It increases its stranglehold on society everyday. It labels Creatives as “counter work productive” (aka, anti entrepreneurship) and makes certain ideas, lines of people even, extinct.
  - Hide or be labeled and limited. More economic slavery. Notice many are anti-status quo or creative.
The educational system is 250 years old – It’s time for it to be replaced with something better.
Also AI isn’t “like a human” – all it does is learn from reactions, effects, etc like a machine. The way it’s discussed is wrong, and victimizing.
NO Entry Exams – just start and go.
- No more lowly “you didn’t do this question right, even though it’s too simple for the big picture” degradation.

OTHER IDEAS:

Outsourcing, Automation, and AI in medical – remove all those jobs, delightfully.

– Consumers, not laypeople… Consumer Boards

In 2016 I think, I imagined outsourcing the technology as well from Business to Business INSTEAD to Business to Consumer. Now the people are empowered with their own medical equipment. Everywhere. Then use the technology databases to let people figure it out themselves
Don’t get me started on how backwards the medical field is, either. It’s archaic and bizarre. But I know that’s also for profitable and controlling purpose.

MATH – MOVE ON:

Stop using 40 year old calculators. Also, who actually has used the “math” they learned in school in REAL LIFE? Likely almost none. Then they degrade us to learn it again, and again, and again. It’s like an endless cycle of destruction. Let the machines ADVANCE with AI and do it.

Stop forcing students to do it by hand if they can just jump right away into the programming.
- I know controllers get highs from making people feel lessor than them, but this is ridiculous

OUTSOURCING: There’s a huge divide on how to find people. Connect real life, in person, online…

LET THE REAL PEOPLE TALK: Those who actually *want* to make the world a better place with ideas, should talk, not get constantly divided and interrupted by the control freak or boring types. This may mean new organizations that create more advanced quality controls.

Scientific Method: OLD. Actually, qualitative witnessing, observations, first-hand accounts matter also. There are hundreds to thousands of layers for each issue.

THINK LIKE A NETWORK (that all connects and effects), NOT A HIERARCHY. No beginning and no end.

Push technology to EMPOWER, not manipulate. And spread it. It actually pays off more for everyone if they’re empowered instead of controlled downward.

That’s my message of the day (:

Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd’s song is on target. School is like a factory – it forces people to memorize terms which they will never use to converse with people. They’re also ideas created by people who want to control the narrative. Will 90% or more ever be applied in a career? Likely not.

They sell this idea that it “increases critical thinking” or a “type of thinking.” Really? What type of thinking is being cultivated? The “follower” type? Very few classes benefited me in getting larger grasps of the world, but even so, some of them will never be used in any type of business or job. In fact, as mentioned in another post, it is hiring by word-of-mouth. That means, only those with connections get these jobs. Realize, that is the same result from manufacturing and before then, natural resources. (Oh wait, remember the answer is either a written “other” or “none of the above”).

Now, I am having to learn MORE psychobabble in these classes which claim they are for business. I know it is HIGHLY wrong to criticize psychobabble – even harder to do than criticizing race, gender, religion, or well, ANY other subject. It’s literally in everything and creating a class of unseen, unheard, and frankly, brainwashed into submission, class of individuals.

What classes tell students to create inventions? Further, if you look at funding for start-ups, they clearly are going to certain demographics of people. I question if they were from those they knew. For someone like me, that is downright impossible. Further, no classes show you how to do a WeFunder or even set up an LLC or any other business entity! This is business, people.

I – and who knows how many others – are enrolled for financial aid. If I wasn’t enrolled, my only job is taking orders as a subordinate for the forever – I mean FOREVER – minimum wage. No, nobody would ever be interested in my anti-status quo ideas. Moreover, what applicable skills are you learning? None. Yet, when I came around, the cost of education is probably the highest here than in the entire world (though I heard Canada is pricey too, but alas, it is very American I guess). It’s basically a place to wafer away and try to not drown. Worse, if I could keep that minimum wage job – and try living in California, even in one of the cheapest counties in it. Oh no, you got sick? You get tired standing on your feet all day? You don’t smile? You got angry at work one day because you were too afraid to pretend you were sick instead? Your co-worker reported you because they are jealous of you? Bye.

Now they are teaching this “EQ” test which essentially is just marking people’s social skills and inward-focused viewing. This semester is going to be long. I hate this. Meanwhile, I learn more outside of the classroom.

I feel that school is just an oppressive environment overall. Yet, I remain… and remain… and remain. Granted, I do get those ‘grades’ but it is just even harder when I am trying to create a website. Instead of having internships or real skills that employers ask for – we get…. theories, brainwashing, and honestly, I think it’s just to keep the public content.

Critical thinking was the top one. Only ONE class in that is even required for learning about logical fallacies. 99% of school is “follow the herd.” Now I am hearing about some innovation, but the rest is just conjecture.

Well, I like the song..