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The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse (medium.com)
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Has anyone read "The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse"? The document/post is available here.

What are your thoughts on it? If you just look at the conclusion, it sounds doomy, however, if you read the whole thing, it seems to be based on facts. I haven't read the whole thing, I skimmed through it though.

I am interested in hearing your thoughts.

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[–] amos@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't like how he seems to quote (positively) Noam Chosmky so much. By the end of the article, it ceases to be fact-based and becomes more opinionated.

He makes a few points that I disagree with, namely: "the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent and who think for themselves and who don't know how to be submissive and so on - because they're dysfunctional to the institutions" (This is from a Chomsky's book). I 100% disagree with this. I just don't see people creating an educational system that filters out good thinkers and smart people. If it does, it is surely failing. (I am in Europe). Ask any teacher what sort of training they received to filter out those people. They will tell you none. Ask any teacher what is the reason that one fails in the educational system. Not one teacher will tell you "oh, that person is too smart, too independent, for our current educational system. He needs to be dumber if he wishes to pass.". Come on...

I wish he would have kept the document fact based. This is surely an attacking point that may be used to detract the rest of it.