I just realized why those of you arguing for classic literature in schools as a way of teaching values are wrong. @CheshireOcelot
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It's not just that fiction is lies. It also has to do with the issue of viral memes vs. "mitochondrial" memes. Transmitting values virally
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as in schools will result in anti-clannish (shitlib) values. Values transmitted from parents to children are more reliable at promoting
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survival; values transmitted by others will tend to promote others' survival. If a society is excessively clannish we may want to transmit
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values via schools, but not in our current societies.
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I'll have to look up
@EvolutionistXX's posts, but this looks like an argument against either letting Liberals run schools, >>1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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>> or against Prussian style education. I oppose both, so if I'm following you correctly this doesn't get us anywhere.
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I support homeschooling, esp. in current environment, and parochial schools, and a lot of local control over education.
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I'd say no matter who runs the schools you are vulnerable to virtue signalling/memeviruses. That's how classics got pozzed
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in the past few millennia of civilisation, how common is this problem? I'm sure it crops up, but you're vastly overstating the case.
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we have a novel tech environment that has allowed memeviruses to spread out of control
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