Centering 'feels' leaves you unable to meaningfully criticize Jihadi John etc. Which they realize, so they center it in *their* propaganda.
@RedMaistre Hard to tell. Teaching's always been corrupt business but there was a big shift in the students we got out of high school.
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@St_Rev students more savvy to higher education as a game, perhaps. -
@RedMaistre Wasn't more savvy. If anything they were pathetically helpless in a lot of important respects. -
@RedMaistre ...but the kind of helpless that makes others step up to protect you out of pity/disgust. I dunno. I blame 'self-esteem'. -
@St_Rev what am academic thought of them becoming a prime target for advertisements saying they must validate themselves through school. -
@RedMaistre@St_Rev knowing (or at least believing) your future economic security is staked solelyeon being liked sounds like hell to me -
@schakalsynthetc@RedMaistre unless you're good at being liked, then it's easy street -
@St_Rev easy except for the bit where you have to inhabit the psyche of an at least subclinical narcissist@RedMaistre -
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@St_Rev the consequence of its de-mystification as more people participated in it. -
@RedMaistre Nope. Don't think so. There was a *rising* mystique, if anything. More ppl who didn't know why they were there. -
@St_Rev perhaps we just know different people.
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