Yeah, there's this crazy IMBY/NIMBY focus where a person's foremost concern becomes the justification for ignoring every other thing in the world, chasing the kids off your lawn with a flamethrower.
There should be a coda which details the difficulties of growing up inside this, when everything learned in kindergarten is definitely not what the parents are doing. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:32 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a fantastic article. I worry about the extension into racism in the > later parts. It distracted me from the main story line because of the link > to the Naked Dollar and the toxic anti-Wokeism comments there. > > But the main story shines light on pathological rationality, the neurotic > optimization trap. It reminds me of Effective Altruism, where rationalists > wring the skin off their hands trying to choose which charity provides the > best bang for their buck ... or twisting one's mind trying to eke out a few > miliseconds from a computation with clever but unreadable code. > > > On 3/17/21 10:31 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ > < > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/> > is about the relationship between parents and elite independent schools and > elite colleges, by an author who had both taught and enrolled children in > an elite independent school. It gets extremely weird. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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