Why I'm Mad that I'm Dumb - And You Probably Should be Too.

I have a decent IQ:  Above average but not close to genius.  I'm what a genius would call a mid-wit.

But I'm dumb.  And so are most of you.

Public School is useless.  Here's my anecdotal evidence.

How many useless days did you spend watching videos so you could "write down 20 facts" on a sheet that the teacher would then lazily gaze at and confirm that, indeed, you wrote down 20 things.  How many days did you spend memorizing useless bullshit that you don't remember.  I know from reading most people's posts that the HUNDREDS of hours spent literally conscripting grammar textbooks didn't do you any fucking good.

And yet, after spending 11 YEARS in school, I learned nothing about the REAL knowledge necessary to understand the outside impacts on my life.  I didn't learn personal finance.  I didn't learn corporate finance.  I didn't learn how to tell what my dollar is worth.  I didn't learn what inflation or deflation was.  I didn't learn about hot vs cold wars.  I didn't learn how our nation declares war.  I didn't learn anything about the Civil War except it was slavery vs non-slavery (bullshit).  I didn't learn anything about the tax code or Teachers Unions or corporate bailouts.

Yet, I skated through all that.  High relative IQ and I got the grades I needed to keep alive and do well enough on tests to meet societal standards.  I felt smart.

Then I met the internet.  In a real fashion, I started seeking out smarter people than me, and I realized how much I had been mislead - how stupid I was.  My teachers were not paragons of wisdom, they were idiots fed by a bloated state that is intentionally keeping people dumb and making it impossible to fire dumb teachers.

Think it's all bullshit?  Well, here's Bill Ivey, former Clinton Administration Official E-Mailing current Clinton campaign head John Podesta

"And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry"

Or, as Lupe put it -

"Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up"