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You could have used some more schooling...

Posted by: Mr. Grr ( The Anti-Anti Movement ) on January 18, 19100 at 10:23:53:

In Reply to: All of you school worshippers... go to hell! posted by Thanatos on January 17, 19100 at 10:41:00:

Schooling in written communication, that is.

The justice of this is that few people are born extraordinary--as regrettable as that is--and must undergo an extensive training session where they'll learn how to subsist as a being, and perhaps have a multitude of other desirable traits as well. Now you may or may not like behaving in these "desirable" ways, because sometimes it's hard to resist your baser urges: those that make you selfish, violent, and egomaniacal. But these are easily overcome if an individual demonstrates a modicum of intelligence and ability to reason; overcoming these urges, in a society of other human beings, is essential to survival.

You will, for example, notice the treatment society gives to those it considers criminals. These are people who commit acts outside the boundaries that a society has set on behavior, and they are punished for their transgression. To a lesser extent, society works to punish all trangressors to normality. One might be turned down for lucrative job offers because of one's dress or hairstlye, for example. One thing can always be certain: the degree to which you emulate what society desires will in part determine your success as an invidual within that society.

As for "society" being "crap," I think you had best undertake a study of the advantages that living in groups brings to human beings. I'll bet that for whatever your complaints, you'd be even more miserable if forced to hunt for your own food with weapons you made yourself, build your own house from materials you gather and tools you fashion yourself, etc. Lots of people do lots of things so you don't have to, and all they ask is that you respect their preferences considered in aggregate. That is what makes a society. You may have a problem with yours, but you couldn't possibly have a problem with society in general. You are already its product and I doubt subsistence living would be to your liking.

As for obeisance to authority, the rejection of authority for the sake of rejecting it is stupid. People in authority may or may not be competent--that is your true gripe--but you should have no problem with a competent authority. They'll ensure things turn out for the best for you, and how could anyone not like that?

It seems to me, however, that the attitudes of people such as yourself imply that the only competent authority is the individual; that is, everyone makes their own rules. But the problem with that is the possibility for error; its completely feasible that everyone is wrong about something, but utterly impossible that everyone is right all of the time. Otherwise there wouldn't be such a proliferation of different opinions among the populace. And at least when we know them as opinions we can dismiss them if they're odious. If everyone makes their own moral "facts" and acts on them, exactly what do you think we be the result besides endless dispute?

Anyhow, as for the justice of it all... Since by your dismissive and unthought post I may assume that you haven't really considered the subjects you're broaching, and believing firmly that you had access to at least a passable education, which you reject, I'm going to have to assume you are of the same group of unextraordinary people that most of us belong to. If you were anything greater, your ability to process data reasonably and clearly would not be impeded by rejecting a formal education, and you'd have come to similar conclusions as I have all by yourself.

But what's immensely fair about it is that since I've put in my dues, languished under the "oppressive and horrible" thing that is a modern civil society, and not rejected the advice from authorities such as teachers when it was sound advice, I have a much greater understanding of how to coexist in large human groups than you, which cannot help but be advantageous for me.

You, on the other hand, will suffer defeat after defeat at the hands of your society, as you are repeatedly denied its benefits and shown only the fruits of nonconformity.

You might want to consider the notion that if your society stifles all that is great about who you are; that perhaps who you are isn't so great after all. An identity so easily stifled is not the sort that any self-respecting human being could possess.




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