State of Tuesday: THE GREAT RESET WE NEED
There’s been two flashpoints for debate in education recently. One in higher and one in primary.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Once again, I will be off the rest of the week. I will see you next Monday!
Until then, Merry Christmas!
Also, can we get a little revolution soon, please?
THE GREAT RESET WE NEED
As we discuss this, I want you to remember a few key things.
Despite what the “GDP line goes up” people say about immigration, the economy, trade, and so on, what actually matters is simple enough for uneducated rubes like us to understand easily.
All that matters is: guns, food, water, shelter and energy.
Do we have what we need to build shelters for our people? Do we have water, food and energy? Can we reliably produce and distribute all of it?
Do our guns work? Do our planes and bombs and tanks work? Are we capable of producing more?
Finally, does anything outside of these things really matter to our survival as a nation?
To the degree that we require trade deals — as in they might be a necessity for survival purposes — and therefore durable, external relationships, they would be for rare-earth minerals. That’s not much of a problem.
There are a handful of industries we’d need to reshore that we deliberately externalized as a result of policy decisions, but that’s not an impossible task either, given a decade or two. Machining, chemical production, manufacturing, then some tech production.
It turns out that within the territorial structure of the United States, we have an abundance of everything we need to pretty much sustain all these things in perpetuity.
Which brings me to the next step: America’s great reset.
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The biggest obstacle we face is education. It’s been completely captured and distorted. As a result, it’s largely useless, and it produces useless minds. In the best case, those minds produce useless thoughts.
One cannot eat a land acknowledgment.
In the worst cases, ones we’re seeing play out right now, these useless minds clump together and busy themselves producing actively harmful policies at every level.
Ask an under-35-year-old “educated” liberal how much immigration from third-world shitholes we should allow in a given year, and they’ll struggle to give a concrete answer. Should we let 10,000 Eritreans a year into small-town America? 100,000 a year?
Ask a coed at Harvard University to elucidate exactly what rights men have that women don’t, and you’ll get a blank stare. Same goes if you asked about white people versus blacks and Hispanics. If they bothered trying to take the question on directly, it’d be sheer befuddlement.
But they’ll tell you without an ounce of hesitation that STEM needs more women the way Columbus, Ohio, needs more Haitians.
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There’s been two flashpoints for debate in education recently. One in higher and one in primary.
In primary, there’s a huge debate about how Mississippi suddenly became the literacy capital of the United States. In short, they went back to teaching phonics.
Phonics is ultra-simple and ultra-boring. It runs through various characters and character combinations to teach the sounds and contextual sounds associated with each. Then it zooms out to words, sentences and so on.
There are various issues when it comes to rote memorization and comprehension, but for the case of simple literacy, there is no better way. Memorize the alphabet, memorize the sounds, burn it into your brain, and suddenly you can read.
There’s just one problem: modern teachers hate it.
The solution here is simple: If we care about the kids, fire all the teachers. There are other factors that contribute to the decay. The ability to discipline and even excise unruly students is big. Even bigger is nuking all cell phone use from schools.
In general, however, the biggest problem is the people. The teachers and administrators. We know what they need to do, so if they don’t do it, fire them all.
The next flashpoint is just how politically lopsided academia has become.
Books could be written about how and why this all happened. I won’t get into it because this is running long already.
Here’s a good qualitative analysis from an anon if you’re interested.
Just remember: Guns, food, water, energy, shelter.
Can you eat a subversive analysis of Russian poetry as it applies to racial hierarchies in the coffee business? No? Out it goes.
The solution here again is simple: Cut off all the funding to useless majors.
Start federally, then go by state, where some GOP governors can literally line-edit staff of state colleges. If the privates and the Ivies want to keep funding this stuff, great, go for it, but not on our dime.
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But Geoff, this would create a ton of unemployed people. What do we do with them? What do we do with all the kids who are too dumb to study STEM and too poor to pay for an education in racial intersectionality?
Chris Hansen, who famously has a long-running pedophile sting operation, said something shocking recently.
“We have seen an increase in illegal immigrants being caught in our stings across the country. And it seems today that we can’t do a sting — whether we’re in the South, or the Midwest, or East Coast or West Coast — without catching someone who’s in this country illegally.”
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The great reset we need is two-pronged. Purge the poisonous and misguided educators. Make education entirely merit-based, make the pathway to higher education extremely narrow again. Only the brightest minds. Not only will engineering and medicine improve, so will creative arts.
You can do this through funding reforms but also through straight up fiat in red states. As education improves, like it has in Mississippi, parents who care will either move or demand the same in their states.
Second, deport 50 million people. Go back 25 years. All the illegals and everyone who got picked up and shipped here by Democratic presidencies and liberal organizations. The Somalians in Minnesota, for example. No reason they should be here other than liberal leadership decided to literally scoop them up and move them, summarily giving them legal status. Immigration in this century, legal and illegal, has been totally artificial, painfully corrupt and detrimental to our native population.
Therefore, it’s all up for review. You’re a net contributor? You get to stay. Javier, who cleans gutters and moonlights as a rapist. Out. Somalian tribals. Out. Fraudsters and net negatives. Out.
So to answer my own question, where do all the unemployed folks go?
If they’re too dim to study STEM and too frail to build, mine or drill, well …
To the fields.
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