[FRIAM] The year ahead

[Marcus Daniels]

IMO, it is like a tradeoff between adhesion and cohesion.   Education creates something to adhere to (or, more positively, to build upon), but in order for it to break local cohesive strength (of a local community full of chuch-goers, rednecks, etc.), it has to be pretty strong.   Merely being a little more enlightened doesn’t give that individual much more power in their world (and in some cases less by being a sore thumb that conspicuously sticks out), so many opt to conform to the norms of their community.   If you dive off the springboard, there better be water visible below.

Or think of education as being a magnet (or set of magnets), that, to first order gives a `right answer’, bias, or politically correct answer for a set of questions.   The uniformity of this field causes the influenced to look like many other influenced individuals.   But a rural person doesn’t have endless opportunities for social training compared to a person in a city.   Even if they are `as well biased’ by the magnets, they won’t necessarily seem that way because of how they interact.  Such individuals from the country are at not a competitive advantage to those in metropolitan regions.  They have fewer networking opportunities and less support infrastructure (e.g. subways).   So, low adhesion and high cohesion naturally leads to insular communities which have arbitrary, narrow, and prescriptive lifestyles.

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:21 AM
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Why won't education make (a?) difference?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <robert at cirrillian.com<mailto:robert at cirrillian.com>> wrote:

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life

Timing and Marketing is everything.

Robert C

On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference.



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