CosmiKnot

The train conductors are now falling ill The railway company says the strike is not necessary It does not think - why are they striking? Let alone Why are they falling ill? This is because the railway company thinks in binary efficiency Empathy cannot be captured in units Metric tables cannot explain why they are unhappy Unhappy at being communicated with in binary The railway company does not compute The railway company is a vulcan culture Magnetic data strip memories The conducting people make bad jokes They are humans after all In the interests of safety Please don't stand on the tables Now they are falling ill Being treated like a piece of data makes you sick Unless you are sick already The art school lecturers are falling ill also Like the islanders drinking stagnant water Wondering why they have the shits They keep turning water into why? The binary why brigade History is the lives of individual people Says the academic cultural materialist Hurrying ...

They are talking about education on the radio. I haven’t really heard enough to workout the specifics but the gist is about how we could change education if we could start again. I think they are saying that social relations ought to be made part of the experience. I just suddenly thought what an insane world we live in that we are able to convince ourselves that an education system based on competition is in any way an evolved way of organising our lives. This tells me that I am not a realist. I mean a realist would say, “that is the way of the world so we must prepare our children for it”. That was in a deep resonant alpha control voice in case you didn’t pick that up. The other thing we’d say is something about human nature and that we can’t change that. This all makes me realise the eternal paradox of being human. The enlightenment tried to help us evolve through the use of reason and higher thinking but that ended in lots of heads being chopped off and scientism trapping us in a ...