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Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Junior High School
• We all live in a hellish manufactured world from which we escape only during sleep.
• All evil is done in the name of social status. Yet the people with the highest status do not personally do any evil -- they behave as inoffensively as they can.
• The usual way to get status is through imitation.
• You can also get status as an intellectual, by imitating elaborate combinations of words. But only other intellectuals really care about this, and it's just as unpleasant and cruel as other status systems.
• No punishment is ever as bad as the fear of that punishment.
• The people you used to be in awe of turn out to be nothing.
• When you get to a higher level, everything from the previous level is thrown away. But they never tell you this.
• Everything you do turns out to be meaningless, except hanging out with your friends.
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• We all live in a hellish manufactured world from which we escape only during sleep.
• All evil is done in the name of social status. Yet the people with the highest status do not personally do any evil -- they behave as inoffensively as they can.
• The usual way to get status is through imitation.
• You can also get status as an intellectual, by imitating elaborate combinations of words. But only other intellectuals really care about this, and it's just as unpleasant and cruel as other status systems.
• No punishment is ever as bad as the fear of that punishment.
• The people you used to be in awe of turn out to be nothing.
• When you get to a higher level, everything from the previous level is thrown away. But they never tell you this.
• Everything you do turns out to be meaningless, except hanging out with your friends.
Go visit:
http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html