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Technologies should be designed to facilitate collaborative in-person meetups, skill exchange, and interest group-based teach-ins; all forms of selforganizing educational community are essential for real learning. Screens should run applications that get users to go away from their screen and be with other people, interesting objects, and nature. Pro-social technologies that spawn peer-to-peer (P2P) networks will form the universally accessible platform for integral educational initiatives of the future.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
What has become apparent through the twentieth century is that even drastic changes in one sub-system (e.g. political revolution) typically do not lead to lasting or widespread change if pressures from other sub-systems (e.g. the global economic order) push back toward equilibrium. __To recast the intersectionality thesis into structural-functionalist terminology, we might say: the problem is that modifying one sub-system (economic, legal, political; race, gender, class) is merely ... change within the system, but does not constitute change of the system, and often languishes in the face of boundary-maintaining pressures.__
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
It is interesting to note that the British welfare state, like most post–World War II welfare states, was consciously constructed against the principle that the poor need to be compelled to labor. This started to change almost everywhere starting in the 1970s.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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