School and Conditioning
School and university as conditioning systems: what they were built to produce, and why it's so hard to leave them.
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2026-10-01 —
Job Simulator
University isn't knowledge transfer. It's a job simulator for fake corporate jobs, the exact jobs AI deletes the year you graduate.
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2026-06-09 —
We Put the Children in Charge
School selects for the middle of the curve, and now the perfect students run the institutions. The results are in.
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2026-06-09 —
Safe Choice
You weren't into computers, but it was good money: four years, $200k of debt, zero passion. Then AI hit and the safe choice sank.
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2026-01-31 —
The Inescapable Classroom
Leaving state-school conditioning is harder than leaving a religion. A church you can point to. The classroom you carry everywhere.
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2026-01-01 —
Engineered Control
The modern school was built to produce obedient corporate staff: bells, rigid schedules, hierarchy. It works exactly as designed.
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