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They just go back and forth shooting opinions at each other and nobody ever says 'wait a minute. If you think that, does that mean this?' You know, sort of get inside somebody else's ideas, and try to follow through and explore. Then I thought 'well maybe higher education does do something positive in that it teaches people how to do this.'

And then suddenly I had this realization: No wait. Children do that all the time! That's all they ever do is like 'wait a minute, if you're saying this, then does that mean that? Well why's that?'

So basically children have a natural desire to do this! So something is happening in our educational system which is basically smashing that out of you. Saying 'Shut up! Stop asking questions! Stop thinking that way!'

Then they have these little 'opinions'- an opinion is what you have when you have no power, right? An opinion is like what I would do, but I have no say in the matter.

We don't want to have opinions. We want to have actual policies which is what powerful people do. We want to have actual decisions that we make collectively- which is the opposite of an opinion.

So essentially we have our natural inquisitiveness smashed out of us by this mechanized system, and then when you go to higher education they put it like halfway back it.[...] So I guess this is the point of real critical pedagogy, for me, or real education- is to undo the damage done to our minds by earlier education and open us up so we can just get back to where we were when we were children to begin with."

where there is no freedom to disobey orders, the freedom to arrange and rearrange society is cut down- so one gets whatever rest one is allowed to get, until one can exercise her freedom to leave

but in a social world where we do have the freedom to disobey orders, the freedom to arrange and rearrange society is better supported, and we can cooperate to prioritize, plan, and coordinate whatever work needs doing

the sabbath's glory is not merely a day of rest, but also the implied 6 days of robust, democratically organized "caring labor":

opening of 'the mystery of the sabbath' — 16th-century Kabbalah text by r. meir ibn gabbai

providing a real historical reference point, reminding people that america DID heavily tax the highest incomes, and that it was better for basically everyone(besides banks, financiers, lobbyists...), might've genuinely given weight to the 'tax the rich' mentality, might've prevented it from being so toothless

literally 'Make America Capitalist Again, back when profits were made by buying and selling goods, rather than managerial feudalism, where profits are made by creating debts through rent, insurance, fees and penalties, and enforcing them through the courts' is probably what a significant number of """conservatives""" actually wanted from trump.

but also about how, back in the day, you werent a 'gay person,' you just Had gay sex, or gay relationships