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The line about being hesitant to engage in real life connection rang true to me. To wit, I am working on getting to know the other fathers my age at my parish and am still unwilling to show my hand as it were.

Otherwise, I should read Kierkegaard is what I got out of this.

Especially because I have unwittingly been given the same idea:

https://silentsod.substack.com/p/flat-earth-society

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Together we can make “gay paper clip” a thing

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Let's not have this "gay goo" scenario happen.

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Great article. Loved seeing Hubert Dreyfus make an appearance.

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I've listened to this on YT three times already - this is excellent. Thanks to your posting here I can share with my folks and others that don't listen to podcasts/YT

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Thanks, although I posted it here first before it went to YT and other places. Trying to write more, but thank you for the kind words.

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> Just ask Nixon, Reagan, or Trump how well governing can be when you the dealers are counting the cards.

The word "you" seems wrong here. Typo?

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> Yet of all government programs and policies that most didn’t consider the long term consequences of (save for a few) was the mass subsidization of higher education.

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> I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that this system didn’t just rear its ugly head sometime in 2012, it’s been around for quite sometime. Edward Peter Garret detailed it succinctly in 1938 in his monograph The Revolution Was.

I just read Garret's article and I don't see any mention of government subsidies of higher education in there. Education of any form is barely touched upon at all, from what I can see. Am I missing something?

As far as I've been able to tell, the majority of everything that's wrong with modern-day higher education (not all of it, to be sure, but far more than you'd expect) can be traced directly back to the aftereffects of the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power. I wrote a few months back about why it's so significant, and why rolling it back should be a priority.

https://robertfrank.substack.com/p/the-most-significant-case-youve-never

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Thanks for the link, I'll give it a read.

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