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[Real Sasquatch @SasquatchScout]

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[Real Sasquatch @SasquatchScout]

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[SiriusB @SiriusBShaman]

They did not take cursive from the schools because children no longer needed it. They took it because of what it was quietly building in them.

Consider what the exercise actually is. A child, six years old, is handed a pen and asked to draw a single unbroken line that becomes a word. The wrist must float. The fingers must hold a living pressure, never quite the same twice, always correcting. The eye must follow the ink forward and trust the hand to finish what it has begun. There is no lifting, no stopping, no starting over mid-word. The loop must close. The ascender must rise and return. The sentence must travel from one margin to the other as a single continuous gesture, and at the end of it the hand must still be steady.

Twelve years of this. Every day. Ten thousand small acts of sustained, self-correcting attention, carried out below the level of conscious thought, until the motion belongs to the body and the body belongs to the motion.

This is not penmanship. It is the slow construction of an interior form.

The hand that has learned to carry a line without breaking it is the hand of a mind that has learned to carry a thought without breaking it. The two are not metaphors for one another. They are the same faculty, trained in the same child, by the same daily discipline. Continuity of the stroke becomes continuity of the reasoning. The patience of the loop becomes the patience of the argument. The commitment to finish a word one has started becomes the commitment to finish a sentence, a paragraph, a life's idea, without reaching for the nearest distraction halfway through.

Print is a different creature entirely. Print lifts. Print stops. Print assembles a word out of separate, stamped, interchangeable pieces, each one beginning and ending in isolation. A mind raised only on print learns to think the way print is made, in discrete tokens, in replaceable units, in fragments that can be recombined by any outside hand without the owner noticing the substitution. It is precisely the shape of thought a language model produces. It is precisely the shape of thought a language model can steer.

Cursive is kata. This is the whole of it. A form repeated daily, for years, not for the sake of the form but for what the repetition lays down in the practitioner beneath the form. The swordsman does not train kata so that one day he may fight in kata. He trains it so that when the moment comes and there is no time to think, the movement is already inside him, older and deeper than thought, and it rises on its own. Cursive was the kata of the literate mind, the daily quiet drilling of continuity, of patience, of a line held steady under the long pressure of its own length. And the signature it produced at the end, that small flourished mark unique to a single human being on earth, was only the outward proof of an inward form no machine and no other hand could ever reproduce.

Take the kata away and the practitioner is left with vocabulary in place of faculty. He can recognise a whole thought when he encounters one. He cannot carry one himself. He can admire a finished argument. He cannot sustain one long enough to close its loop. He begins books he does not finish, sentences he does not end, ideas he abandons the moment the screen in his palm offers him a brighter one. And when the machine begins feeding him tokens in the exact shape his schooling taught him to receive, he meets it with no interior resistance at all, because no interior form was ever built in him to push back with.

They removed it quietly, across a generation, and they removed it in the last years before the machines arrived. Twelve years of daily practice in unbroken, embodied, self-authored thought, gone from the curriculum of almost every child in the Western world, just as the instruments designed to complete their sentences for them came online.

The hand forgets. The mind, having never been taught the kata, forgets a thing it never knew it had.

That is what cursive was. That is what was taken. And that is why the thought of anyone who still writes by hand, in long unlifted lines, remains, quietly, stubbornly, and without their ever needing to announce it, their own.

Now the question stands open. What else has been banned, phased out, quietly retired from the curriculum and from common life over these same decades, under the same soft excuses? Mental arithmetic. Memorisation of poetry. Latin. Logic as a formal subject. Map reading. Knot work. The keeping of a commonplace book. The reading aloud of long passages in class. Singing in parts.

What was each of those actually building in the child, beneath the surface of the lesson, and whose interest was served by its disappearance?

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

🚨💬 SIGNAL GATE: 300 MORE NAMES DROPPED ⏬

Here are 300 more names from the Bloomington Rapid Response (ICE chaser) group chat on Signal.

It’s not slowing down. I’ve obtained A TON more info today, so follow me here.

[Paratrooper Brady @paratroopbrady]

Paul Allen, the voice of the Minnesota Vikings, made a comment saying the protesters in Minneapolis are being paid to protest.

Liberals are now demanding he resigns.

I knew I always liked that guy.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This is NUTS: Here's Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy. She's warning that their childcare audit shows $415.5 million unaccounted for.

Not only that, but she says the department made it impossible for her to fully track federal expenditures or verify compliance with federal rules.

"Because the department did not comply with HHS requirements to allow for the tracing of grant expenditures to a payment level, we are questioning all $415,579,473 in federal program costs it incurred during the audit period! We haven't been able to get that information for the last 4 years!"

[NOVA Campaigns @NoVA_Campaigns]

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine’s son “Woody” rioted and evaded Minnesota State police, was tackled, & arrested with his 5 Antifa friends at a 2017 anti-Trump protest

Woody had most charges dropped; the elite politician’s son was only given probation

Tim raised a terrorist himself

[Anthony Sabatini @AnthonySabatini]

Pam Bondi is NOT a war time consigliere

Get rid of her—and replace her with someone 10X more aggressive

NOW

[GunShyMartyr @jimmy_rustlin]

Meet Myrtle Lemon-Todd and Trevor Lemon-Todd, marketers and sign design of the Signals Chat group. Maintains group membership and reminds people to change their names out. Known as T (lemon) and Shark Pile.

[TRUMP SUPPORTER @_Postive_Vibes]

🚨ALERT: In a bombshell revelation, Michigan's House GOP has uncovered a jaw-dropping $5 billion fraud scheme within the state budget by Democrats, which includes the creation of 4,277 "phantom jobs" to launder funds and the funding of gender-reassignment surgeries for prisoners.

[Governor Dill @TheGreenOldDill]

Members of the leftist media are even included on this signal chat.

You seriously can’t make this up.

What say you, @benjovland? Care to enlighten us on how your group gathers intelligence on federal agents’ whereabouts?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Hey @FBI I found someone you might want to look into for information. Everyone meet @OliviaReingold_.

She embedded herself in an insurrectionist network for her "journalisms." In this article, she details Signal chats, much like what @0hour1 and @camhigby found.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Hi @MosesBrown, this your teacher praising people who try to kiII ICE agents and says she’s inspired by Renee Good and Alex Pretti?

Are parents aware and OK with this person promoting violence teaching their kids?

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Dr. Oz: "If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental, you don't get free vision. You do if you're an illegal immigrant in California… We've audited Newsom. This data is coming out this week."

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

And we have found,

that more than 10,000 illegal aliens using the exact same Social Security number voted in the 2020 Arizona general election. And that’s only in the border state of Arizona.

Saying illegals are not voting is like saying the border was secure during the four years of Joe Bide .

Just ask Adrian Fontes — he was the one who registered them.

8 backstabbing RINOs stopping the SAVE Act from getting passed:

1) Rand Paul
2) Thom Tillis
3) Todd Young
4) Jerry Moran
5) Susan Collins
6) Chuck Grassley
7) Lisa Murkowski
8) Mitch McConnell

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Don’t stop making her famous until she’s arrested

Minnesota anti-ICE Signal group leader who’s been coordinating ICE riots was identified as Amanda Koehler

She is a paid protest organizer and Minnesota State Senate Candidate

She was a campaign strategist for Tim Walz

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Okay so when are we getting the select committee going?!?!

I’ve uncovered FAR more coordination in Signal Gate than J6.

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Biggest story coming out of Minneapolis isn’t Alex Pretti, rather it’s how Signal is being used to attack federal agents.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 JUST IN: David Hoch (from that explosive Nick Shirley fraud video) just EXPOSED the Minnesota scam setup!

“Keith Ellison? Not from Minnesota, he’s from Detroit. Jacob Frey? Virginia. Minneapolis police chief? New Jersey (and his wife’s a Muslim cop there). St. Paul mayor? Not even from MN!”

Hoch says Democrats built this fraud framework, tried it with Hmong refugees in the 70s/80s, but they refused to play dirty because they’re honorable.

So they pivoted to Somalis who “fit right in” and ran with the massive taxpayer rip-off!

This is why accountability is coming, Hoch’s intel is headed to Congress. End the grift NOW! America First demands justice.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Here’s a screen recording of the moment they realized their Signal chat was infiltrated 😂😂