"Let us assume that this program was adopted, and produced a single, brilliant generation of over 5 million children, who went on to college, and majored in science, math, gender studies, English, art, and music. After college, when they finally look for work, they will come across people who are still tied to their own petty interests. This generation will lose all sense of right and wrong as their own ideals are dissolved into an endless bureaucracy that only cares about its own existence, and the nebulous entity will punish any of these gifted people for acting in an unorthodox manner, even if their ideas would improve it.
The nature of institutions is such that it cannot afford to care about anything except for itself, and the immense weight of this overprotection and paranoia bears down upon those who operate beneath it to the degree that the only manner by which one is to survive is to embrace Sartre’s Bad Faith: In our context, it is to pretend to oneself that s/he is having a real impact upon the world in his or her everyday life, even—especially--if the opposite is objectively true. It is here, then, that our goal in this project is totally and irredeemably lost, and it is against this crushing reality that I pound away at my keyboard."
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