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    > T h e   F i d o G a z e t t e   Volume 15 Number 13   September 22nd,   
    > 2021   
      
   [...]   
      
    > ...The dumbing down of America is   
    > most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in   
    > the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites   
    > now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator   
    > programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and   
    > superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of   
    > ignorance"   
    > ~Carl Sagan, 1995   
      
   " And yet he felt repelled by the teaching machines. For the entire Public   
   School was geared to a task which went contrary to his grain: the school was   
   there not to inform or educate, but to mold, and along severely limited lines.   
   It was the link to their inherited culture, and it peddled that culture, in its   
   entirety, to the young. It bent its pupils to it; perpetuation of the culture   
   was the goal, and any special quirks in the children which might lead them in   
   another direction had to be ironed out.   
      
   " It was a battle, Jack realized, between the composite psyche of the school   
   and the individual psyches of the children, and the former held all the key   
   cards. A child who did not properly respond was assumed to be autistic--that   
   is, oriented according to a subjective factor that took precedence over his   
   sense of objective reality. And that child wound up by being expelled from the   
   school; he went, after that, to another sort of school entirely, one designed   
   to rehabilitate him: he went to Camp Ben-Gurion. He could not be taught; he   
   could only be dealt with as ill.   
      
   [PKD, Martian Time-Slip]   
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