Suspiria (1977)
I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.
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Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (via philosophybits) |
On March 30, 2016, in an immigration courtroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, a 2-year-old boy was doing what you might expect: He was making some noise. But Judge V. Stuart Couch—a former Marine known to have a temper—was growing frustrated. He pointed his finger at the Guatemalan child and demanded that he be quiet.
When the boy failed to obey his command, the threats began. “I have a very big dog in my office, and if you don’t be quiet, he will come out and bite you!” Couch yelled.
Couch continued, as a Spanish-language interpreter translated for the child, “Want me to go get the dog? If you don’t stop talking, I will bring the dog out. Do you want him to bite you?” Couch continued to yell at the boy throughout the hearing when he moved or made noise.
A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says he supports getting rid of higher education because he argues it would cut off the “liberal breeding ground.”
Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield called for eliminating higher education while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show on Sept. 2.
Roberts specifically called out one activist who testified in favor of protecting abortion rights. He asserted without evidence that the woman’s beliefs were a “product of higher education” and claimed that getting rid of higher education would “save America.” (x)
Hold on, hold on, hold on. This one’s not scary, this is hilarious. What the FUCK do we do without higher education? Where do we get our experts, or pass down knowledge? Really think about that. Without college graduates, who the fuck is going to find answers to the big questions? Questions like: What the fuck is space? What lives at the bottom of the ocean? How do you organize traffic lights at intersections to minimize traffic on the daily commute?
Now, absurdity aside, let’s really consider more practical applications of the idea… I know, bear with me.
Let’s actually get rid of HIGHER education. Let’s include it as a part of the basic education package. Granted, it’s not for everyone, but let’s say you are someone who would really like to further your education on astronomy, instead of institutionalizing it like we do today, why not build it into the educational upbringing of students from the get-go. Some people know what they would LOVE to do, and simply lose steam after 12 years of public school beat down, causing extra stress, anxiety, and suffering in their college experience. Integrate these higher courses in place of certain electives, or build the entire education system around the idea that by the time you’ve graduated high school, you will have at least one degree or technical certification.
Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Theres nothing conceptually complex about most entry level courses, and if you start early, and with smaller steps, you could accomplish a degree plan easily in addition to a course load of “basic” courses similar to those already in the high school curriculum, with reduced redundancy.
Or you know it’s actually scary esp. when coming from the right given that totalitarian governments literally close the universities during political upheaval and nothing Sen. Roberts implies anything you just said.
“Some people belong entirely to others… They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
On this day, 28 April 1945, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed the previous year. At the time, Mussolini is said to have remarked, “for the blood of Piazzale Loreto, we shall pay dearly.”
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