The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

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jacob wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:56 am
The fact that humans seem hardwired to fall on a spectrum here. Most people in a democracy seem to vote according to what benefits them personally w/o considering how the whole of society hangs together. There are a few exceptions to this general rule in which some people begin to realize that "just because it's good for me (and my neurotransmitter levels/rates), doesn't mean it's good for everybody".
I understand and I have seen you write about this before, but I have also read your problem with postmodernism. If difference of opinion can be justified by idiosyncratic brain chemistry, what grounds could there be for a definitive and authoritative answer to any question?

Taken to its logical extreme, one group can simply outbreed another and justify its moral code in that the group is the majority and is therefore right.

While what @7w5 describes is dreadful, if we are hyper attentive to every case, it leads to more bad than good. More social programs leads to more people who need social programs, and the aggregate suffering is multiplied. I would rather we try and colonize space and increase the size of the whole pie, rather than bicker over fair distribution of the current pie.

But you already knew I would say something like that, based on my previously established neurotransmitter rates and levels. :P

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There's a great argument for being "reasonable" because reason is basically how the universe works.---And we do know quite a bit about that. Pomo, being invented and discussed in the ivory towers (really, only one of those towers) by tenured professors has the luxury of ignoring reality. However, the rest of us are better off working in accordance with reality than against it. My issue with pomo is that it ignores the observation that frameworks based on reason experientially work much better than frameworks that people invent out of thin air.

Learning how to reason is basically a work in progress. Therefore reason will be neither definite nor authoritative.

If you have a community of humans with diverse neurochemistry and knowing that 99.9% of humans don't like pain, it would better to make laws (using laws because humans like to follow laws because it requires less thinking) that ensure a minimum compromise than going for laws that make 51% happy but 49% unhappy. This follows form min-max theories from game-theory, so it's eminently reasonable, because reality. This is basically why it's better to have laws that respect/protect minorities even as persecuting them would make the majority happy. The reason is that you don't know which side you might find yourself on eventually ... therefore it's better to aim for a system that minimizes the maximum pain you can receive from any number of law systems [because you don't know which one you might suffer from] in case they work against you. Grokking that last sentence is crucial to understanding how the optimal system of laws follows from the minmax theorem.

(If you want a simple minmax problem, consider the death penalty. Set up the game theory matrix. Explain why you use that cost matrix.)

Of course, if one group outbreeds the other, then we would (by the laws of nature) have a more limited range of neurochemistry. Lets say humans started breeding for size and aggression. Then a better system would be one of chiefs and warriors in which what mattered morally was whether you could physically kill anyone you disagreed with. And people/everybody would agree with that because they all had the required brain chemistry to accept it.

However, again, the minmax theorem would lead to the correct ethics. In such a case, it would be my honor to be killed by someone who stole something from me as long as the thief is stronger than me(*).

Since that is not the case, we can't have that kind of system. But if everybody is the same, it's very easy to construct one-size-fits all. If not, it's a lot harder and might even be impossible. If thought making clothes for all the different kinds of human bodies was tough, it's so much harder to make laws that fit all kinds of human brains.

(*) This incidentally, has been the operating [ethics] system, in historical warrior communities. They died out when single-warrior combat skills lost out to "smarter" humans who knew how to organize. Humans who follow squad tactics beat strong individuals. Big reason why the Romans overran the known world.

Not respecting the minmax essentially means that people playing against it, that is, choosing by same other strategy will lose statistically against systems that do. In short, those societies will perform less well in terms of what they're trying to optimize than others. A democracy in which participants understand that the aim is to find the best minmax (vernacularly known as a "compromise") would work better than a democracy in which participants vote according to their own interests ... which again would work better than a democracy driven by single-issue voters.

I already know that single-issue voters will object to this last observation, but before doing that, please try to understand how minmax strats work first.

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A hypothetical.

Let’s suppose Country A focuses its resources on a minimax for the lowest common denominator.

Neighboring Country B focuses its resources on stronger infrastructure, economy, and military.

Country A would be a nicer country to live in, or at least an easier country to live in. Studies are released that indicate the aggregate happiness quotient in Country A is higher. It is decided! Country A has the best form of government, as it attends to its least advantaged persons and tries to minimize the worst outcomes for all individuals. No one is left poor, homeless, or hungry. Even male virgins in the MGTOW movement are provided with beautiful women for sex, as the beautiful women decide that inequality of outcomes is unbearable.

Country B is denounced as unpleasant and indifferent to human rights. Not only are the MGTOW virgins left unrewarded, their knuckles are whipped at each mention of “equality” and “fairness.” The underprivileged from Country B longingly seek to emigrate to Country A, as they feel Country A must be better. Right up until Country B invades, conquers, and subjagates Country A. The best and brightest of Country A are killed, and its lowest common denominator is made subservient.

Another hypothetical.

An asteroid is hurtling towards the Earth, and is expected to destroy all life on the planet when it impacts in a few years.

The leaders of Country A convene. Life is fleeting, and so all private property is confiscated from the wealthy and redistributed to the masses, to be consumed in a massive orgy. Anarchy reigns as the ultimate fate is a foregone conclusion. People devolve into hedonistic monsters.

The leaders of Country B convene. They decide that survival of the species is the ultimate goal. All social programs are suspended. Every bit of human-energy in society is dedicated toward the construction of a spaceship that will carry 1,000 individuals to the nearest habitable planet. Even those who are not designated to go on the ship channel all of their energy into the spaceship construction. Even as their death approaches, the meaning of their work is imbued with a spiritual importance. They are the inheritors and perpetuators of all human history. The spaceship is constructed, and all but 1,000 individuals from Country B are annihilated. Mankind survives.

I am not sure a minimax strategy is sacrosanct.

****Disclaimer: These hypotheticals were written by a privileged straight white male in an air-conditioned American office setting, sitting in a comfy office chair and sipping on free iced coffee provided by work, and he probably never has to worry about being marginalized or being dealt the worst hand.*****

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Minmax is subject to whatever values you put into the value matrix. Lets assume that two countries both enter values in accordance with valuing perceived happiness, individualism, and literacy in that order. The particular chosen values can be changed without loss of generalization. The optimal strategy is not dependent on the kind of values ... just on the degree they're valued.

I suppose I should point out that there's only ONE such matrix. It's not like each person gets to make their own one. The full matrix (or rather tensor) includes every single player in the system (including Country A and Country B). Minmax takes care of the rest(*).

Minmax would then conclude that the country which voted according to minmax would do better at maximizing those three values than the country which votes according to each individuals personal preferences (call it maxmax) which again would do better than the country where everybody voted according to a single issues (call it maxsingle). IOW, given the values, the foremost would be a better run country (values are better enjoyed) than the latter.

The strategy is sacrosanct. The values are not ... but the values do seem to be biochemically given. Therefore, we can probably get a lot closer to the ideal society than we currently are.

However, that goes back to the "this could be solved in theory" ... but "most humans aren't ready for it [mainly because they aren't used to it]".

We have solutions ... but we don't have much of anything in terms of how to go from A to B.

Kinda why I suggested (in another thread) that some problems are impossible to solve at this Kegan level.

(*) It's kinda ironic that I'm arguing for a rational approach here ... while I the same time, I'm pointing out how humans tend to be irrational in another thread.

However, what matters in terms of this thread is that it's [reasonable] possible to tell that the selection mechanism of the government is borked to the degree that the people have no faith in the government mechanism. This reasoning behind this doesn't even need to be precise as long as it's accurate.

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jacob wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:56 am

So for example, suppose that a typical human has a problem with something. Being human, there are two possible solutions: economic and social.

The human can exit the situation and try to find another situation. That's the strategy of changing the economical relation. Everybody on the right would say this is the best way.

However, other humans would try to fix the situation by complaining about it or convincing others in the hope that the social relations would change. That's the strategy of changing the social relations. Everybody on the left would say that this is the best way.

Color me a little skeptical. I seem to remember lengthy threads here about two years back where the left voting contingent said disaffected flyover folks (many former "blue dog" dems, granted) should pack up and move to alleviate their problems while the people themselves voted right to stick with their communities with hopes the existing situation could be improved, which was judged foolish by the left advocates.

It would probably be easy to find a variety of issues that would illustrate that, as a function of the issue, either political side leans towards out with the old, in with the new; versus saying fix what we've got. Actually, by definition "conservative" would imply a bias towards fixing what we've got.

In reality it takes a balance, of course. So maybe it is not so bad people fall all over a spectrum. I'm not surprised that is the vignette that persevered through evolution.

The wise voter realizes that what is best for the society writ large is likely best for him, or if it's a far future consideration, for his children/descendants. Not entirely unlike investing, something a significant majority does not have a lot of proclivity towards. What is best for society includes both a social and economic component, which are hard to disentangle from one another as has been pointed out above.
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7Wannabe5 wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:10 am
@Campitor: I don't like it when people throw words like "psychopath" around freely.
That sentiment was hard to infer from your "do you want to be in a Rihanna video" comment. I guess that was a fancy way of calling me dramatic? If so, that is the politest ad-hominem attack I've ever received. :D

I never said psychopath. I said sociopath. There is a significant difference between the two in regards to cause and effect. Here is an article by a psychiatrist that explains the difference:https://psychcentral.com/blog/differenc ... sociopath/

Now back to the sociopaths and the emotionally disturbed: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/ ... asheet.pdf
  • In 2014, 4,300 young people ages 10 to 24 were victims of homicide—an average of 12 each day.
  • Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for young people ages 10 to 24 years old.
  • Among homicide victims 10 to 24 years old in 2014, 86% (3,703) were male and 14% (597) were female.
  • Among homicide victims ages 10 to 24 years old in 2014, 86% were killed with a firearm.
  • Youth homicides and assault-related injuries result in an estimated $18.2 billion in combined medical and work loss costs.
  • Among 10 to 24 year-olds, homicide is the leading cause of death for African Americans; the second leading cause of death for Hispanics; and the third leading cause of death American Indians and Alaska Natives.
  • Homicide rates in 2014 among non-Hispanic, AfricanAmerican males 10-24 years of age (48.2 per 100,000) exceeded those of Hispanic males (9.6 per 100,000) and non-Hispanic, White males in the same age group (2.6 per 100,000).
  • In a 2015 nationally representative sample of youth in grades 9-12:
    • 7.8% reported being in a physical fight on school property in the 12 months preceding the survey.
    • 10.3% of male students and 5.0% of female students reported being in a physical fight on school propertyn in the 12 months preceding the survey.
    • 5.6% did not go to school on one or more days in the 30 days preceding the survey because they felt unsafe at school or on their way to or from school.
    • 4.1% reported carrying a weapon (gun, knife or club) on school property on one or more days in the 30 days preceding the survey.
    • 6.0% reported being threatened or injured with a weapon (gun, knife or club) on school property one or more times in the 12 months preceding the survey.
  • In 2014, 501,581 young people ages 10 to 24 were treated in emergency departments for injuries sustained from physical assaults.
  • In 2015, of a nationally-representative sample of students in grades 9-12, 2.9% reported being in a physical fight one or more times in the previous 12 months that resulted in injuries that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse.
Perhaps there is a way of effectively treating these violent children and adolescents but it shouldn't be at the expense of other students who demonstratively try to learn. Lets focus on removing these violent and disruptive kids/teens from our normal schools and move them into clinical programs and locations that have the best chance to rehabilitate them. This will have the 80% Pareto effect that would boost the student achievement of the poor.
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jacob wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:56 am
While more options are better for the rational human phenotype, most humans are not rational but rather "rationalizing".

There's a lot of research showing that more options tend to
  • Decrease happiness
  • Increase anxiety
  • Lead to analysis/paralysis
  • Prefer to follow rather than lead (e.g. rules and directions instead of accepting personal responsibility for all the choices)
  • Bias against upside in favor of avoiding downside.
*rolleyes*

sure, the 9 year old who has the choice between juvenile hall and a paper route to support himself is going to be experience decreased happiness and analysis paralysis. brute is all in favor of avoiding the downside in this case.

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maybe there is eventually a downside to options. but in this case, the options go from 1 (jail) to 2, (jail, not jail). so peak option has definitely not yet been reached.

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jacob wrote:If you have a community of humans with diverse neurochemistry and knowing that 99.9% of humans don't like pain, it would better to make laws (using laws because humans like to follow laws because it requires less thinking) that ensure a minimum compromise than going for laws that make 51% happy but 49% unhappy.
In "Passionate Marriage", Schnarch explains that seeking a minmax compromise, such is often recommended in most conventional marital therapy, ultimately leads to "bed death." I think this is why those with entrepreneurial spirit are so valued in the American mythos and/or practice of the free market. Risk-takers, those who are willing to gamble on a situation that offers overall higher expectation of returns (profit or pleasure), with inherent higher possibility of utter failure or severe pain, will under rational analysis contribute more to the overall system.

Also, I agree with JP's previous observation that the differences between the left/right wings of the aspirational class are currently being over-emphasized. For instance, it's not so much the case that middle-aged affluent white males who vote Republican are wired for economic vs. social solutions, it's more that they seek to receive their social solutions from their wives or girlfriends, rather than government entities :lol: (For instance, 10 minutes ago when my BF interrupted my Tech Studies by dumping a basket of his laundry on top of the bed where I was studying, and then attempted to lure me away from my efforts to better my individual economic situation by offering to take me out to breakfast.)

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That's like saying that it's a bad thing when minimax applied to by dietitians to dietary choices causes "cheesecake death" in favor of avoiding "real death by heart attack". Presumably people go to the dietitian because they want to avoid an early real death. Otherwise, they'd consult the bakery which uses another pay-off matrix and therefore arrives at a different result.

I'll note that the payoff matrix is complete and thus includes risk as per the expectation values. Insofar those values are correct, the gambler who is not adhering to the optimal strategy will steadily be picked off. There's basically no way around it. It's like playing roulette.

Rather, it's more likely that the game in complete and people take stupid risks because they like a good story. When you're down at the country club, it's way more fun to talk about how you own a big hotel with your name outside covered in gold plating even if it's heading towards bankruptcy than it is to talk about your "1-age"-balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds even if the ROI on the latter is higher. This, I suppose, is also why some young tech-millionaires like to blow it on being a venture capitalist [because it sounds sexy and makes a good story] even as being a VC is mostly a money losing proposition (on average)... it's not much different from playing the lottery.

There's a lot of survivorship bias when it comes to popular impressions. Society gives a lot of credit to those who made it as actors, rockstars, or sports players. They're the legends of our times.

A stupid risk is not to be confused with a calculated risk! A stupid risk would be paying $1 for each roll of the die in order to win $5 for rolling a 6. A calculated risk would be paying anything under 83 cents for each roll. Minimax does exactly the same thing---it's just able to handle more complicated strategies than a coin flip. It's still an accurate calculation of the risk.

Anyhoo ... I digress, but I would like to leave [you] with this: https://kundoc.com/pdf-the-minimax-cons ... racy-.html

(very interesting and highly relevant in these times and also for this thread because its framework is rich enough to deal with it)

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I have argued that the minimum-transaction-cost constitution commends representative government and the rule of law, and the minimax constitution commends a bill of rights, separation of powers, and electoral competition.
sounds a bit like Democracy vs. Republic. brute has always been more fond of the Bill of Rights and separation of power than the elections and can-do's.

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Back to the 9%. Listen to this teacher discuss what she endures daily while trying to teach. This isn't isolated as the CDC figures show. If you're going to blame the 9% for anything it's should be for supporting politician, school boards, and school policies that allow students to terrorize their teachers and fellow students. https://youtu.be/-SRCY8FqoyQ

Remove the problem students from normal school and it will have an enormous difference. These disruptive kids need therapy in a clinical setting - there is no teacher good enough that can help them until they get treatment.

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@jacob: My bad. I thought you were implying that humans dislike pain to the extent that they irrationally avoid high stakes calculated risks. I would also note that if "preservation of capital" is that which the game seeks to maximize, I believe (may be misreading) that what you are suggesting as optimal strategy only applies to single generation as opposed to multi-generational game. The multi-generational game would also require at least two additional levels of play (Sex and Maternity/Paternity) requiring different strategies than the Survival as Individual level. I would further suggest that the blend of Cultural Capital and Financial Capital found where the boundary of Upper-Middle/Aspirational Class overlaps with Highly Affluent Class may represent best known strategy towards winning Multi-Generational version of Preservation of Capital Game.

@Campitor:

The sub-text of your solution set is that during your impoverished childhood, you directly or indirectly suffered ill treatment at the hands of violent youth allowed to freely exert their will in a "Lord of the Flies" type environment. Therefore, your own Adult Masculine (Paternal/Power realm) wishes to strike out strongly to protect your own internal vulnerable child (Juvenile Feminine), because you immediately semi-consciously identify with the victim. I grew up in a very safe, affluent setting, but with a mother who suffered from bi-polar disease resulting in outbursts of rage and manic shopping sprees and related behavior causing great financial stress for my very fiscally conservative, firmly Upper-Middle class father. So, I have some experience with therapeutic solutions to childhood trauma. In terms of the crude Jungian model I prefer, you will likely benefit from letting go of some Paternal Control mechanisms which cause you to place your boundaries somewhat forward of the ideal towards imposing judgment/rules on other humans, and thereby limiting your own freedom.

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7Wannabe5 wrote:
Mon Jun 11, 2018 8:18 am
@Campitor:

The sub-text of your solution set is that during your impoverished childhood, you directly or indirectly suffered ill treatment at the hands of violent youth allowed to freely exert their will in a "Lord of the Flies" type environment. Therefore, your own Adult Masculine (Paternal/Power realm) wishes to strike out strongly to protect your own internal vulnerable child (Juvenile Feminine), because you immediately semi-consciously identify with the victim. I grew up in a very safe, affluent setting, but with a mother who suffered from bi-polar disease resulting in outbursts of rage and manic shopping sprees and related behavior causing great financial stress for my very fiscally conservative, firmly Upper-Middle class father. So, I have some experience with therapeutic solutions to childhood trauma. In terms of the crude Jungian model I prefer, you will likely benefit from letting go of some Paternal Control mechanisms which cause you to place your boundaries somewhat forward of the ideal towards imposing judgment/rules on other humans, and thereby limiting your own freedom.
You keep resorting to ad-hominem attacks, albeit in a very polite manner, instead of refuting my points. Okay - I'll play along for just a bit
The sub-text of your solution set is that during your impoverished childhood, you directly or indirectly suffered ill treatment at the hands of violent youth allowed to freely exert their will in a "Lord of the Flies" type environment.
Let's say your 100% right about me getting freely assualted in a Lord of the Flies atmosphere and that experience has affected my view. How does that negate the recommendation that violent students with sociopathic tendencies should be segregated from other students and recieve their education in a clinical setting where they can get help? Do you think violent students should be free to comingle with non-violent students? Do you think students with sociapathic tendecies shouldn't get help? I know, I know, I'm strawman'ing you but it's a bit deserved when you keep ad-hominem'ing me.
Therefore, your own Adult Masculine (Paternal/Power realm) wishes to strike out strongly to protect your own internal vulnerable child (Juvenile Feminine), because you immediately semi-consciously identify with the victim.
I don't identify with the victims because I don't view myself as a victim. I do have sympathy for individuals who are victims of psychological and physical abuse irrespective if they are also perpetrators of violence; you don't break the chain of violence by letting violent people wage violence on normal people.
I grew up in a very safe, affluent setting, but with a mother who suffered from bi-polar disease resulting in outbursts of rage and manic shopping sprees and related behavior causing great financial stress for my very fiscally conservative, firmly Upper-Middle class father. So, I have some experience with therapeutic solutions to childhood trauma.
I used to care for patients with psychological and mental disorders: attempted suicide, dissociative identity disorder, dementia, traumatic brain injury. My job was to make sure they didn't hurt themselves if suicidal, monitor them for any sign of brain hemmoraging, and help feed and dress them if they were incapicitated in some way. Most of my time was spent listening to them - they just wanted someone to talk to. So I guess we both have experience dealing with trauma - I award both of us the official raspberry award for tooting our own horns.
In terms of the crude Jungian model I prefer, you will likely benefit from letting go of some Paternal Control mechanisms which cause you to place your boundaries somewhat forward of the ideal towards imposing judgment/rules on other humans, and thereby limiting your own freedom.
"Forward of the ideal" is your opinion. I doubt wanting freedom from violence by segrating the violent from the non-violent is a Paternal Control Mechanism - it's just plain common sense and biology. All organisms, even the most basic, try to evade harm.

Okay back to the regularly scheduled program:

Warning to 7wB - "I wanna be in a Rihanna video" dramatic comment below...

So who here thinks the Pareto distribution of better outcomes is on the "Don't let the 9% tutor their children side" versus the "Don't let Little Billy Sweetcakes club/punch/stab my kid" side?

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brute thinks the latter.

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@Campitor:

I think they are both poor solutions. One reason being that although violent behavior is anti-social unless sanctioned and promoted by the government (because granted monopoly on use of force),it is not a psychologically aberrant feature in our species, especially when exhibited by young males. So, the inappropriate squelching of a natural instinct may result in other societal problems- reference “A Clockwork Orange.”

I absolutely agree that disruptive students should be removed from the classroom, but I think it would be a more effective and less expensive to provide inner city schools with decent playgrounds and a coach/ supervisor who would make the boys, and occasional girl, run laps until exhausted before they are returned to classroom.

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Furthermore, as somebody who has spent some time on the frontline herself, my response to the audio-tape you linked was something like “If you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. “ The adult version of the aspirational class girl who loved second grade and was a very good helper is not entirely well-suited to teaching junior high boys in the inner city.

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7Wannabe5 wrote:
Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:41 am
Furthermore, as somebody who has spent some time on the frontline herself, my response to the audio-tape you linked was something like “If you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. “ The adult version of the aspirational class girl who loved second grade and was a very good helper is not entirely well-suited to teaching junior high boys in the inner city.
If the link you're talking about is this one: https://youtu.be/-SRCY8FqoyQ, the teacher is talking about violent incidents to students and threats of violence made against the staff. I wouldn't consider girls getting sexually assaulted, boys getting their legs put in vises so their shoes can be stolen, or kids pounding on doors to be let in so they can hurt someone a "can't stand the heat" type of situation. And you can't get kids to run until their are exhausted when they don't want to. Did you listen to that link in it's entirety? And that was only 1 link - there's a deluge of them all over the place of educators complaining about the violence in their schools. Violence and disruptions are a major problems and removing these students, who have no incentives to behave or lack the ability to behave as a result of trauma, is vital to the success of the other students. Running laps isn't going to stop someone from acting out who has emotional issues. If exercise was the cure to violence then all football and track and field teams would be paragons of passivity which they are not.

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@Campitor:

My point exactly. Is it the ultimate goal of our society to therapeut or medicate our young men into state of passivity? Is it possible that the long run consequeces of this cruel and unnatural protocol might prove even more harmful to the outcome of our culture, or even our species?

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@7Wannabe5

I believe the majority of humans behave more or less in alignment with the unspoken social contract of "I won't punch you if you don't hit me"; they know how to resolve their conflicts in a non-physical manner using words instead of fists. So the appropriate audience for therapy will be those who repeatedly show a lack of self control and harm themselves and others. Some will respond to the therapy and some will not. Those who don't should remain in therapy or in an alternative school so they don't harm other students or their teachers. Average class time is 40 to 60 minutes. Any significant interruption costs time which reduces time spent learning: Interruption+Time to Refocus = Time Lost. This loss has a significant impact to knowledge acquisition.

At this point I think we will just have to agree to disagree. But I stand by my theory that the 9% tutoring their kids is very low on the totem pole of what is affecting children in poor school districts. Violence and disruption is the elephant in the room that no one discusses for political and emotional reasons.

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Campitor wrote:At this point I think we will just have to agree to disagree.
Can you name the uncomfortable feelings that you were experiencing when you decided that you no longer wished to continue this discussion with me?

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