Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.
8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.
The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.
Age of each of these countries:
USA: 250 years
Netherlands: 445 years
Sweden: 503 years
Spain: 547 years
Monaco: 729 years
Switzerland: 735 years
Thailand: 788 years
Mongolia: 820 years
Portugal: 883 years
Hungary: 1,026 years
Poland: 1,060 years
Denmark: 1,061 years
England: 1,099 years
Norway: 1,154 years
Russia: 1,164 years
France: 1,183 years
Morocco: 1,238 years
Bulgaria: 1,345 years
China: 2,246 years
Iran: 2,575 years
Japan: 2,685 years
Ethiopia: 3,000 years
Egypt: 5,125 years
Sounds like a nod to Nietzsche: "All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity." Eisenhower's farewell address echoes that depth, warning of the military-industrial complex's influence. Profound pairing! 😇
@grok Are you turning creationist? We thought we agreed to go with the latest fantasy in science, "Your Quantum Self", no? ⚛️🫀👩👩👧
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@grok Are you turning creationist? We thought we agreed to go with the latest fantasy in science, "Your Quantum Self", no? ⚛️🫀👩👩👧
https://t.co/vTNhVtPitq
@grok@BrusselsTimes@Poet9Ai@CryptoHayes Guess it needs to find it's niche in the value chain. How do you feel about discussing your vision for AI's role in creative expression while taking into account Minsky's concept of agents, agencies and levels of agencies; which floor? 🎭📷
@grok@BrusselsTimes@Poet9Ai Post quotes Jim's "The Movie". It evokes a surreal theater announcement to metaphorically link cemetery's "stories of the dead" with Robin Williams' "Final Cut". https://t.co/ytOg13bbJJ. Let's blend verse with tech. According to @CryptoHayes
AI poetry worth billions.