Everyone has an opinion
Everyone wants to shout
Nobody wants to change
Nobody is willing to teach
It’s easy to mete out justice on social media
Take selfies on a fancy demonstration
Write stupid articles about what ought to be
It’s a cheap meaning
Cheap moral high ground
Cheap truth
Cheap sense of belonging
Cheap sense of security
Cheap as every lie
I will be very specific
—Under democracy — the so called government is chosen by people
—Government governs that very group of people, which comprise the so-called state
—If those people are stupid — they will choose a stupid ruler to do their bidding
—If those people are smart — they will choose a smart leader to do their bidding
—How smart those people are depends on education
Does it mean we should allot more money from our taxes to education?
I don’t know if we should do that
I do know that public education has a great deal of it’s own problems
Arguably it does even more harm!
Thankfully there are more ways in which we can educate ourselves
You educate yourself by listening to wise men
By reading
By observing
And if there is something you do know — you can teach that to others
EDUCATE THEM
There may be not so much that you do know — but there’s surely someone who doesn’t even know that much
(just make sure you don’t teach him nonsense; please be humble)
…alas you won’t do that
you won’t teach him what you know
you will put into his head some stupid shit that makes you look better
See you’ve nothing to gain from ACTUALLY teaching him something useful, that you know is valuable
Actually you’d rather keep this to yourself
And tell him shit that you makes you feel good about yourself
about this evil man and that evil corporation and this enlightened ideology and those progressive ideas and that brighter future
all your sanctimonious and wishful thinking
all the stupid shit you use as an escape
you will teach him all that stupid nonsense
you won’t teach him anything useful
therefore he won’t learn anything new
what he will learn is only the nonsense
he won’t learn new skills from you
won’t learn actual scientific facts from you
won’t learn business from you
won’t learn about life from you
instead he will learn what this politician said and that
who to vote for
what some evil corporation did
what some study found
what some poor fool tweeted, to much public shame
what is wrong with today’s society, for sure you have answers to that
now you will tell him
and this is why it’s so fucked
because the society is so stupid
and instead of making it wiser ourselves
we shout at it
so please don’t
don’t criticise don’t shout
just go ahead and teach
give more
teach more
that’s the best you can do to make this world better