🤔 the task scheduler, or something like it, should be the central feature of an OS. Paired with an AI in one GUI, you could make scripting and automating stuff at home super easy for regular people.

One difference between Chinese schools and American schools is the attitude to competition.

Chinese schools maximize competition, gameify difficult subjects, and reward the winners.

American schools go to extremes to avoid competition.

I learned how to teach in China. I was recently investigating becoming a teacher in the US, and did interviews mainly to learn their expectations. They did NOT like me. I said very inconvenient things...

I told them why autism is rising and how to mitigate it with architectural design. I told them how to raise math scores. I told them why childrens' vocabularies are smaller now than in the past, and how to fix it. I told them they should prioritize coding and design, and gave them a plan, even though I'm not a coder.

America cannot compete while schools are failing. And schools will only continue to fail while the teaching philosophy taught in teachers' training is so wildly wrong.

And the solutions can't come from within the education system. The solutions don't exist there.

Gm ☕

Socialism is the end state of perpetual war - total war.

Throughout history, conflicts grew to include a greater and greater percentage of the population. Dutchies, princedoms and monarchies rarely maintained standing armies, and when war occurred, there was a limited supply of trained knights and bowmen to protect the fortress and sortie out from it. Then the concept of citizenship, pioneered by the free cities of Europe, came with a requirement that all male citizens be available for conscription.

Then, as oligarchs seized increasing amounts of power from the monarchies, they solidified their power in the form of legislatures, which exist primarily to tax, distribute taxes, protect the businesses of the oligarchs, and exercise power under the guise and morally camouflaged legitimation of representation. The effect was a more centralized state, which was able to sustain longer wars.

The next step was a central bank, which gave such an advantage to the first state to implement one - the Netherlands - that that tiny country was able to defeat much larger states, maintain naval dominance, invade England and install a monarch of their own choosing, and conquer colonies around the world. Every state copied the central bank model of warfare or they disappeared.

And then there was canned food, mass media, centralized agriculture, urban planning, etc..

But you get the picture. The progression of history is from smaller wars to bigger wars, enabled by centralization and the mobilization of a greater and greater percentage of the total resources and manpower of a country.

And what's the name for the phenomenon of total social mobilization? Socialism.

There are two main branches of socialism, which fought for dominance in the 20th century :

democratic socialism, aka fascism
Vs.
international socialism, aka communism

Or, nationalism vs internationalism

Both included all the previous elements - an empowered oligarchy, a legislature, a central bank, and various technologies that automated the processes that support war. From the standpoint of any free person, the differences are immaterial.

The end state is whichever version of socialism musters the greatest amount of resources - meaning, 100℅ of all people and 100℅ of all capital - and throws it into war.

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Enter #Bitcoin and #freedomtech and #anarchism and #christianity - yes, this is Christianity's fight, too, sorry if that bothers anyone (srry not srry).

We're a small candle up against a great darkness.

Each step along the path of centralization and war must be undone. Central banks are just the beginning. If you want real freedom, the other steps must go too. Oligarchies have to go. Without oligarchs, who does the legislature serve? If you keep the legislative body, it will recentralize and rebuild an oligarchy. It has to go. Every jewel of power must be dismantled... carefully.

I'm not in this to buy humanity a couple hundred more years. I want eternity. All of it. Humanity should be free and vibrant and unchained and ungovernable. Humanity should be an unpredictable force of nature. Nothing about us should be tamed. Let us take the universe by storm - an uncontrolled storm, undirected, spilling out and watering unknown shores while obliterating everything that gets in the way. A typhoon of freedom... Tear off the shackles. Socialism must die.