by capacity I don't refer to physical capacity although that is also dwindling rather most men are not cognizant that they could, if they chose, possess and use power awareness of capacity is necessary though of course not sufficient to be dangerous
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I have mostly negative feelings about this Generally I think people would be better off if they conceived of themselves as possessing agency and sought to develop it where it was lacking, rather than just flowing with the currents of systems and institutions
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schools prolly have a lot to do with this realized that after I started Jobbing my manager painstakingly led me to awareness that (i) I was expected to accomplish X at work, and (ii) I am empowered to do what I need to do to accomplish X very different than coursework
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standard K12 in particular is an exercise in systematically denying volition and agency to students you don't choose: what to learn when to learn how to learn from whom you learn when you go home when you may use the fucking bathroom anything at all except how hard to study
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is it any wonder that (most?) graduates leave more comfortable passively floating through systems rather than seeing a world they want to make real and exerting blood and sweat and cunning and charm to immanentize it they have no practice with this at all a few outliers excepted
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"dangerous to whom" is the question
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to elaborate a little, there's a negative definition of "dangerous" that's roughly "indiscriminately malicious", and a positive/ambivalent definition that's "personally powerful enough to do great harm if desired" the two if anything anti-correlate
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Will to Be Really Nice
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By the same fellow. Possibly the most tone deaf and heavy handed artist ever to write copy for billboards. He must have well connected parents or something.pic.twitter.com/QCt7wEjlrI
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