Comments by "CynicalBroadcast" (@CynicalBastard) on "Burlington VT Goes Through Three Police Chiefs in a Day Due to Twitter Shenanigans" video.

  1. And yet, people admire the metropolitan as the key center of where power should flow.
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  2. Leadership Does not truly pertain to "hippie" anything, that's just a facade...clearly, and pretty well obviously.
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  3. LOL OK. So America is doomed to be overtaken by actually educated nations with math wiz extraordinaires and tech-superbrains, while Americans struggle in trades and farming practices that will meet the future with a skid of the worn brakes of a faultering agriculture industry, because there are no improvements made to the infrastructure of a growing populace. Sounds GREAT!
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  4. Wouldn't you rather that be China? because if China is the tech-hegemony, and you're the Kulaks, how do you think that is gonna fare for US citizens...well, at that point, it'll be ostensible "citizens"...well, you imagine, it probably isn't what most people want...to have all businesses leave, and have anyone who wants to stay be like serfs.
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  5. I admire the thought you put into this, but China, it's China...right now...who is becoming a tech-giant...your autarky sounds good -- but there are certainly pressing matters that will arise if China gets a foothold as the world-hegemon.
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  6. Problem is most people who graduate from an 8 year institution come out dumber than when they went in. That is what I am saying Good point. I agree. The pyramidal system of education aims to push you out quickly while young, and put you into a diagonal temnic "meritocratic" [not truly, as it is not "vertical" but it's diagonal] hierarchy, where nepotism rules, and where, alas, at any rate, one has to prove themselves in several unrelated fields, and whatever interrelation is found, these headers aren't consolidated, leaving a huge latency in the differentiation of positions within the professional STEM fields, etc. Farming is of import, and sure, you can say you learned more from a farmer than a teacher...it shouldn't be that way, obvious. I think, and it seems to me, that there are 'work-arounds' to this, that people find, they tend to succeed, but it's because they are clever enough to find these work-arounds, which still end up being perturbing to those involved, as it takes up their time, energy, and incentive [drive].
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  7. What do you think of this? As overspecialization increases, so does arbitrariness. As these codes [of conduct] become more arbitrary [along with the influx of migrations] language and communication becomes more inflected into chaos. As these factors accelerate, arbitrariness increases to up to a zero channel and trivialize [in memetic terms, things "normalize"]. This is my personal theory: it's rather abstruse. But basically, in a nutshell...overspecialization is a bane on education and the pedagogy, and on markets.
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