ThinkB4Learning

@sircalebhammer They are designed to produce racial conflict, they worked as intended.

A Harvard Business Review finding showed that mandatory race training in workplaces produced higher levels of racism in the end, similar to the white bear suppression effect. We were so close to a colorblind society… then all the crazies ruined it with performative politics.

@Principal_Jon Their existence.

What is the #1 thing you would change in public schools?

@BrentAWilliams2 People who incessantly invoke Marx where his predecessors fit much more clearly are just showing their shallow understanding of the topic. Marx is possibly the most overrated & insignificant person in philosophical history.

No one cares that you read or "studied" Karl Marx. No one.

“the roots of much of my work lie in the soil originally tilled by the social reconstructionists. - Michael W. Apple

“Through The Social Frontier(Frontiers of Democracy), reconstructionists…Counts…Rugg…Brameld…anticipated the critical pedagogy of the 1980s and 1990s.” The same #CriticalPedagogy that absolutely dominates K-12 Education. It is the normal, is the “status quo”, not “radical”.

“this contribution has largely been ignored.” Still true in 2026, & ignored because it completely changes the common narrative of today that Paulo Freire was some major “radical” turning point in the K-12 education system. Why is that Freire timeline narrative pushed so hard?

@LaptopZen Thanks for the feedback. Always appreciate hearing that these posts are helpful for the thinkers that see them & that my compressed language isn’t hindering understanding. It helps to keep me motivated to continue posting, despite feeling that they mostly go right into the void.

@Thinkb4Learning These are helpful for those that are thinking, those people that are configured with an "I" and are modeling with self relational processes. A scalpel for seperation can be created, that serves to prepare others for grafting. This is the magic of metaphor compression language.

The Edu system seeks to primarily do two things. 1) Install a “MeWe” at the liminal hinge between being & becoming, creating a relatively stable semi-frozen state of becoming & a mediated transformation mindset. Active, but also updatable. 2) Install a mediator(consciousness)

@limitingpatrick @CatknightAlex @limitingpod Enjoy your mediation break.

I’m gonna take a break from politics. For one week. That includes all X usage. I don’t like when ppl announce this kind of thing because it comes across as histrionic. But here I type anyways. I’ll be back in one week with a new episode of @limitingpod. See u guys soon.

@Ducemin For context, look at green & blue as if they are the common sense definition of racism(blue) & the CRT definition of racism(green). What happens when one gains a CRT consciousness? Do they totally abandon the common sense understanding when they become green or gain a mediator?

@Ducemin This color gradient gives a good visual as to how gradual shifts over time result in a more solidified change. If green shifts slowly to blue without detection,when awareness of the color change happens it is jarring & destabilizing, but this can be quickly remedied by fusing G-B

Bringing this image back again because I think it demonstrates how woke forms and/or radical political perspectives get adapted. Every circle in this image is a single movement on the rgb scale (up and down), they look identical beside each other. This in some sense a similar visual to the dialectical spiral separated into individual steps. You can barely tell that there's a difference between the horizontal ends let alone the immediate left/right. Ideologically, this is how opinions are influenced and how frogs are boiled. And for the sake of empathizing with the process, this is also how skills are learned. Top and bottom are in total opposition to each other; contrasting opinions for the sake of argument. Propaganda works extremely well at influencing these opinions, somwthing doesn't have to be true for the change to be made (obviously). Because of this, emotions function as anchors/catalysts for the process of transitioning opinion to be made. Subtle input is enough to get someone to adopt "one rgb movement" in either direction. Since the next step looks the same, it's easy to assume that what you're being introduced to is compatible with your already standing values. The issue is, this exact experience is replicated no matter where you are on the graph. You are constantly under the assumption that what you're buying into is already in line with your values, and it's why you see such massive changes in behavior and cult-like adherence to specific ideas that have served well in the past. The rise of woke-like behavior on the right occurred this way, but the colors are different, if that makes sense. They were unaffected by this when it was happening on the left because it wasn't using their values, but now it is, so the emotional attachment makes them vulnerable - and it makes them angry when associated with it because they consider themselves completely antithetical to that which they feel is silencing them. The just asking questions strategy is the same as critical race theory not being taught but being practiced, and much of that strategy, like it was for the left, is how so many people are being influenced into strange extreme worldviews. Like TB4L expressed here, once you've acclimated to a viewpoint, regardless of its truth, you are hard pressed to reverse - you become loyal to it. Leaping to another color makes contrast too aparent, and that contrast is the violation of held values. Discernment is very hard to learn in these environments, but surviving enough value violations I think is what starts to shape it. It's hard to let go of ego, and much of this stuff involves identifying with the ideas themselves. "I am green, i am blue." As opposed to "i hold green, into hold blue."

@Ducemin I think so. The authentic(real) becomes what instigates a psychological crisis, & direct perception becomes the alienating force. To efficiently overcome that anxious feeling the person then reflexively aligns with the ideal & over time eventually doesn’t even perceive the real.

@Thinkb4Learning Talked to a friend last night about something similar, how when you live under a particular idea that sacrifices truth for an ideal then authenticity feels like the lie when you try to course correct

When psychological possession happens, several patterns emerge. Identity fusion—The ideology becomes part of the person’s self-definition. Criticism of the ideology feels like personal attack. Interpretive monopoly—All events are filtered through the ideology. 1/2

In this psychological structure, identity formation itself replaces indoctrination. If the “I” never becomes dominant, the system doesn’t need to later reshape it, because the person already experiences themselves as part of the collective “MeWe.”

The Edu system doesn’t really “re-educate” or “indoctrinate” it instead from the beginning forms a “MeWe”, the “I” never even gets established. Once a “MeWe” is established, especially if the “I” never was, there is little value gained w/ indoctrination, & meditation takes over.

An ideology is powerful bc it tries to reorganize the entire MeWe structure under one interpretive system. Once internalized, the ideology begins interpreting every experience through its lens. An example of an internalized ideological lens of a MeWe is #CriticalConsciousness

When “MeWe” replaces “I”, the capacity to step outside the system disappears. A We -> Me -> We loop forms & becomes sealed. Reflection still happens, but it is bounded by the collective frame. A “MeWe” is structurally possessed by a collective consciousness & is tuned to conform.

When the “MeWe” Self replaces the “I”, the subject experiences an identity fusion & the individual experiences themselves as an embodiment of the collective. The “MeWe” morally outsources & judgement gets delegated to an external mediating authority, like an ideology or “Experts”

The “MeWe” Self, is reflexively-reflective, mediated, & socially constituted. In this identity fusion Me is the internalized social structure & We is the collective order. A MeWe Self, is ALWAYS mediated by the social field. A MeWe is reflexive through mediation & co-dependent.