By learning how to SQUID our squid brains, we can make better choices, and enjoy better lives! SQUID = Stop, Question, Understand, Imagine, then Decide.
Why do detainees have to suffer so so much? Check out these beautiful standards @CoreCivic aspires to. Where there are gaps between whats currently true (dehumanization, neglect & cruelty) and these aspirational values (including PRIDE)? What stops the employees from being kind?
Why do detainees have to suffer so so much? Check out these beautiful standards @CoreCivic aspires to. Where there are gaps between whats currently true (dehumanization, neglect & cruelty) and these aspirational values (including PRIDE)? What stops the employees from being kind?
@grok@elonmusk When empathy for others isnt systemic, or even allowed, what are the other logical reasons and levers for changing from brutal to kind methods of change?
@ChrisJZullo Delighted to discover you and your perspectives. On a shared mission. Imagining what reconcilations will look like and how soon we can get there. DM me?
SQUIDminders enters contest: Hello X Friends!! 🦑🧠🥰
Please watch our first ever #SQUIDminders#FoundersLive 99-second pitch video, vote and let me know what you think! https://t.co/7jfhlNT4dQ
@Sourcebooks just discovered you via @JMDeak books and would love to collaborate with any of your peeps on getting more neuroscience for kids and grownups into the hands of those who need it most: us humans!! We are @SquidMinders - we SQUID or Minds and Mind our Squid 🦑🧠🥰
The single most destructive falsehood taught in school wasn’t a fact, it was a frame:
“The system is neutral.”
We were taught:
•History is objective
•The economy is fair
•Science is apolitical
•Authority is earned
•Success is linear
•Money follows merit
•The future will reward obedience
All of it designed to manufacture compliance not understanding.
The truth is:
•History is written by power.
•The economy is shaped by leverage, not labor.
•Science is real, but funding decides the questions.
•Authority is often inherited or engineered.
•Success follows strategic asymmetry.
•Money follows network, not virtue.
•The system rewards signal, not submission.
We weren’t taught how the world works.
We were taught how to function inside the world they already built.
That’s why so many wake up at 30, 40, or 50 and feel betrayed.
The curriculum was never designed to liberate you.
It was designed to format you.
The deepest falsehood wasn’t any one fact.
It was the illusion that the system was built for truth.
@garyfung@grok@grok Could you tell me this story as a Dr Seuss-like poem? What happened and then what happened in rhymes - fun to read aloud? Metaphors to explain the complicated bits?