I get frustrated when I remember/encounter uneducated people who are unwilling to learn. It's like How the fuck do you not know this are you dumb? Are you stupid? Are you an idiot? What the fuck? It's impossible for me to comprehend the idea of somebody like that exists, that a person could be this stupid. I try to keep in mind that maybe life didn't actually teach them this. They didn't get educated and the deepest blame lies with forces beyond any individual. It's weird because there's this idea that there's some parts of human life that you just understand from being alive. Why the hell should I teach you something you already know/should know? But I think it's actually possible that American society is so fucked up in places that it can't teach the most basic things about life. Overall we are babies in our understanding of human experience-- maybe some older than others, but all babies still. American society does that on purpose, and I've been privileged and lucky to receive a form of real maturation/education, as real as this society is anyways. I share information constantly because it deserves to be free. The world belongs to everyone in this way.

American society has always made up divides between people in the same classes because that unity threatens the top of the pyramid. Class war is desperately needed. Racism is screwed as fuck. Poor white people have more in common with poor black people than poor white people & rich white people but very few realize that. Our capitalism, 400 years old, needs and successfully uses racism to function. We all have problems because of it but American society tells a large chunk of its population fake reasons for its problems and get them mad about that. So many fucking people believe human beings coming to America and positive changes to reading curriculums are the threat to them, rather than their current domestic overlords and the millions of organized criminals that structure society. Education is so so drastically important to getting a clue about the real issues which is why America has made a mess of it. This is tied to science too because it's isolated & weaponized it to further divides between people, real and fake. It uses science to justify racism, be racist, make racism worse and also justify death, be death, and make death worse. Education's created problems and made existing ones worse. That kills and creates killers, people that lash out irrationally and refuse everything.

The problems related to education are so fucking layered I'm having a hard time thinking of a concise way to describe them. People are uneducated in 7 billion unique ways with general groupings... even those are numerous. This shows me, though, that education is the puzzle to fix. It's an enormous front to fight on and fight for. Teaching is so important to society. Teaching in life is as important as teaching in school because everything can be learned from. We need better ways of learning and teaching if we're going to transcend this society.

My education was able to give me the hits of Western society: philosophy, science, culture, art, and supposedly the best of all of them. It depresses me. This shouldn’t be excellence, because ​the only thing excellent about it was its ability to be troublesome for my learning. At a school so egocentric, the worst experience is the true measure of its educational capability. I wish Columbia University wasn’t as influential as it is but for 270 years it has successfully put itself in the spotlight as a beacon of Western thought and producers of exemplary humanity. But this excellence is artificial. Getting a supreme Western education like attending Columbia is supposed to be a pipeline to excellence. It’s one they’ve hijacked though, to direct the flow of intellect and potential towards themselves and starve the rest while claiming the rest naturally have less.

It’s artificial excellence— manufactured, appropriated, stolen, taken, exaggerated. It looks so real to us because we’re at a point in time where all the generations that exist are people completely of the West. Even though we have knowledge of colonial ancestors our society, with the multiple technological revolutions and rapid ages of invention, has unique aspects distinct to the West. So we think no humanity could’ve done this before because they haven’t, which makes the West better than the rest. The truth is, progress would’ve always happened because time doesn’t stop. Revolution and change is inevitable. What was completely avoidable was the damage humanity did while the times changed.

So the perceived excellence of the West is a shiny illusion. What happened in excess was violence and for a long time it outwardly praised itself for its savagery. I’ll speak for modern American history, that the 60s and 70s was a period of great social change where people finally had to reckon with the lies of civility they told themselves. Within America the definition of a human being genuinely expanded. I think there’s a time like that coming again, because the destruction in the world is so enormous and humanity’s rage is roiling. Real human being, love and acceptance, positive collaboration is where we’re going. It’s certainly where I plan on going.

Reality exists. We each perceive reality in our own way. Part of reality existing is each of us existing as a self, distinct from other selves. Another part of reality existing is that all of us, every human, is human. This feels very fucking obvious, but I point it out because I think it's not obvious for a lot of fucking people. The culture we live in discourages us from recognizing the unity inherent to humanity. It divides us.

​One of the basic principles about philosophy I learned at Columbia is that it thinks that the whole world should be divided into categories-- categorization is part of humanity's nature. I think this is only one part of reality. One view is like a tree branching off in a million directions and another view is one we haven't nurtured much. It's like looking at a sparrow, a pigeon, an eagle, and an owl and extrapolating that they all have wings, beaks, eyes, two little legs, and a similarity best approximated as "bird." Yes they are all different, but they are also all the same because they're birds. It's all about what level you're looking on and our current society wants to keep us as low as possible. Without a sense of greater forces acting on us, how would we be able to fight them or even attribute our problems to them? ​

I'm speaking to the white supremacy of the elite, academia heads who think they know more about the world than anybody else. The ones that believe their “education” makes them smarter and intrinsically better than other people... the ones that believe they possess some unreplicable and immaculate quality. Your Western supremacy Columbia shot me up with was traumatic and in the end, not even the pinnacle of education it claims to be.

In my Global Histories of Science class, I learned that the students of Edward Tylor-- the founder of cultural anthropology-- shifted the field from solely being based in secondary sources to "objective" primary source accounts through "participant observation". But we understand now, with universal proof of quantum mechanics, that observing affects the outcome of the experiment.

The narratives of Western history that we base our lives on were improperly measured. The colonizer simultaneously creates and experiences a type of local cultural shift that develops in relation to the presence. You’re in the picture you’re taking. It’s a selfie, not a landscape photograph. As the observer you framed the shot, chose what to focus on, what stories to tell, you created your own interpretation of reality and presented it to us as the most perfect truth without removing any of your own distorted opinions. You've been hyping up a selfie with a lot of fucking flaws, and I can see how that would offend you to the point of complete indignation and rage. That emotion doesn't change the fact that your original creation is Fucked the Fuck Up. Those of us not in the photograph (because you pushed us out, poisoned our bodies and buried them) try to make edits to your picture when we can. I must admit, you put up a terrifying fight.