Michael

Tech is the new elite – primary filter is competence rather than compliance

*public school

I use the reverse logic chain to make sense of this. Elites are useless->school is useless->schools don't give a shit about learning

The elite can see through the facade as well.

Humans have achieved great feats before not as individuals but in collective systems that rely on everyone's aggregate compliance. Compliance is needed to maintain a status quo as competence from learning determines how many steps ahead we get to take.

They don't go to the same kind of schools

This has become quite the meme but I believe that elite schools also are a filter for those with the intelligence and cunning to understand the rules of the game and creative enough to outmaneuver them. Those are very useful folks. So it’s a bunch of sheep and foxes.

Sheepishness is rewarded after years of slavery. By this time, reprogramming is too difficult. The cycle persists.