Elite futurism
The despicable fraud Yuval Noah Harari went on a TV show a couple weeks ago making this argument—that we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years. The elites love this trick of trying to undermine and "disrupt" the idea of education, meanwhile they will continue to send their own kids to elite, exclusive schools that have been teaching the same classical education as always. They want us to think education is unclear—but for them and their kids, it’s the same as ever. They want us to be confused and uncertain about absolutely everything—meanwhile the future is clear as day for them, same as it ever was.
Another part of what this devious imbecile is saying is that we need to teach young people things that will “still be relevant in 20 years.” As if human development should be about staying in touch with what market forces and new technology deem relevant! Human beings should not be following the shifting, fickle tides of “relevancy”—human nature is an eternal thing, we have spirits, minds, and souls. Human nature has always been the same—this is why we can read Plato’s dialogues, written 2,000 years ago, and see ourselves in them—and even more importantly, in our own lives, we have souls and personalities that we are born with and keep till the day we die. That is what human life is about—certainty, not confusion. Trying to reinvent yourself to be in keeping with what’s “relevant” in the market is the most subhuman life imaginable—which is exactly how the elites want us all to live. They will not be changing or trying to stay relevant—they will do what they’ve always done. Again, they want us to be confused, because we’re easier to control.
Another recent example: Elon Musk tweeted “When sending medical advice, ask your doctor, but also ask an experienced nurse. Nurses are underrated.” (Not sure why he said “sending,” I think he meant “asking for”? But these idiots have no grasp of language, anyway I digress). This is this thing that the elites do to try to get lower classes accustomed to lower quality services—like how they say the future of education is uncertain—but they will still send their kids to elite schools, and they will still ask medical questions to doctors, not nurses. As society continues crumbling, and quality of life declines for the mass of people, they will keep trying to get us to accept these things: utilize nurses, instead of doctors; train yourself to be “relevant” in the economy instead of actually becoming educated—all things that apply to the masses, and not to them.
Elon has also been pushing his brain chip implant company Neuralink a bit more recently. They are moving into human trials—apparently the first human patient has gotten it already. Why is he making this brain chip? He claims it’s for good reasons, like helping blind people see, or helping paralyzed people to control robotic appendages, enabling them to get around easier—and also to help us stay a step ahead of AI or something by making us smarter than AI (whatever).
But the real reason, I think, is to implant this kind of smallness I’ve been describing into our very heads—to give lower class people a chip in their brain, so that they can just consult that for all their needs that they can no longer pay for, and that society has declined too much to offer them.
Schools don’t really exist anymore, but you can just ask your brain chip about things you want to learn; you don’t have medical care, but you can ask the brain chip for medical advice. The world is getting smaller for the mass of people—so that the elites can live these outsized, enormous lives—and they want us to get accustomed to having less, to being confused, to making due and scraping by. And the brain chip implant is the culmination of that—cutting your head open and sticking smallness inside your head, and making you think it’s somehow a larger world that’s opening up.