Jimxx50

We're all searching in life. Let's help each other find what we're looking for. And decentralized societies are the best way to do that.

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

One of the most incredibly important posts I've ever read on the internet.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.

He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.

Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life.

A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time.

And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood.

Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant:

A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person.

Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity:

- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Music
- Astronomy
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric

These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point.

The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn.

By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters?

Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"?

That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade.

A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own.

If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men.

If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them.

In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are:

- Logic: how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics: how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets
- Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it.

Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies.

That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves.

Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

Ch CBC JiAfghanistan Gold Star Dad: We Deserve Answers on Memorial Day, But Biden Ignores Us, Putting it ‘in the Rearview‘ https://t.co/tD171aDEOf via @BreitbartNews

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

@KittieRein19308 @LagerthaMuadDib @IanJaeger29 Gee I certainly hope so.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Since 2016 I have come to believe certain things are possible that would have caused the pre-2016 Me to label the post-2016 Me a "whacked-out, insane conspiracy theorist."

I believe it is possible that the Mar-a-Lago Raid was designed by the Fascist Democrats as a way to ignite a true civil war in the USA, which would have given them carte blanche to suppress all political dissent.

They tried this with the January 6 "insurrection" hoax, and it failed. So they tried again.

They thought that if the FBI had killed President Trump or a member of his family during that raid that the actual hot civil war they crave would have come to pass. They would have been right.

If you think this is outside the realm of possibility, you have not been paying attention these past 8 years.

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

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[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Meta and Google are leading a nearly $1 million lobbying fight to oppose proposed online child safety bills.

These bills aim to enhance protections for children online, including measures to prevent exposure to harmful content.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

The left is crying that “Donald Trump is trying to start a third reich” all over again.

Well, let’s talk about that.

Donald Trump didn’t force you to get a vaccine or even mandate for one. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t have two wars start under his watch. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t abandon Americans in Afghanistan, Israel and Haiti. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t cause inflation to reach record levels. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t consistently alienate half of the country. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t have topless transgenders at the White House while promoting “decency on the ballot.” Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t allow millions upon millions of illegal criminal aliens through the southern border, while America’s OWN CITIZENS are being raped and murdered. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t send billions of dollars of military equipment overseas, many times without Congressional approval. Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump didn’t promote racism throughout the country like it still exists. This isn’t the 1940’s. You are either a good person or a piece of shit. End of story. Joe Biden did.

Stop with the bullshit lies and the propaganda because we know this shit show that we have experienced the last 3 1/2 years, is an intentional and destructive behavior to America.

I honestly don’t care who this offends because this is the truth that many people need to know.

Stay mad.

[Keith @ktmarine1]

@ZeekArkham This is who we should be celebrating as a hero. Why can’t the NAACP, Sharpton SOC and the rest of the race baiters support this family.

https://t.co/yDSxdBI90q

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

I took a screenshot because I’m not giving this old timer’s BLM the engagement.

Michael Brown would still be here if I hadn’t strong-arm robbed a convenience store owner and the violently assaulted a cop. The cop had to shoot him in order to stop a rampage.

I don’t mourn Michael Brown, or any other criminal. I mourn children who die by gang violence before they reach twelve years old. I mourn children whose parents treat parenting like it’s a part time job. I mourn children who don’t have a real chance in life because of their surroundings.

Funny how the NAACP doesn’t put up memorials for them. No one does. It’s just business as usual. A White cop didn’t kill them so “oh well…”

Oh, and “hands up, don’t shoot” was a damned lie.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

It’s 2024 can someone please send this to Chrissy Teigen and ask her to unblock me? It has been a year and I miss talking to her about these posts.

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

Our elites are so uneducated that they can't understand how inflation works at the bottom of the economy.

[just a friendly rightwing extremist @Rightwinge1]

@Oilfield_Rando @elonmusk as a engineer for one of the leading horse racing safety apparel companies i can attest that every product i make my first thought is "how can i make this not work for our black customers"

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

@elonmusk You don't like somebody, that's racist. You don't agree with their opinion, that's racist. Facts and science are now racist.

The term has lost its meaning. Overused.

[Rocker Chic ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️ @rckerchick73]

@wakeupusa Yes!

[Hillary G. @Hillary60363296]

@wakeupusa Yes. He did not say anything offensive. As a woman, I heard him celebrating women. I also am laughing at the left. They can’t even define a woman.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Insane. They literally prevent the defendant from presenting a defense. The whole case is an FEC issue & the crooked judge won’t let *the former head of the FEC* testify because it would help Trump.

Never conflate a trial with justice. New York courts have zero legitimacy.

[James Jinnette @james_jinnette1]

@LauraLoomer @NikkiHaley Vivek has predicted something like this happening for months now…

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

@CynicalPublius No they're fascists. Just like Hitler was a far left fascist.

[Jimxx50 @jimxx50]

@KingMaker4570 @drdrew And every industry is now run by oligarchies