A section from a recording I made on March 6th. I discuss the origin of public education, its effects on cultural and individual psychology, and the ways it has become effectively useless except in instilling a unified, society-wide groupthink constructed to propagate and uphold the institutions and systems upon which our current form of civilization relies. The advantages and disadvantages of these systems and institutions at the time of their foundation notwithstanding, times are changing. The modality of life has changed in ways which make the flourishing of individual lives incompatible with the continuation of the systems and institutions as they have existed. I mentioned the date of the recording above because, interestingly, I recorded this audio prior to any of the state-ordered school closures we are now experiencing. Families have been brought together forcibly by the direct orders of the organizations I am referring to, due to the incompetence of those organizations and their inability to prepare for and deal with a situation truly outside their control. I believe individuals, families, and natural communities will begin to appreciate the value of what we have given up, culturally and as individuals, in trading control over our lives in exchange for the illusion of security found in taking on preformed roles within a complex web of institutions and systems designed to propagate themselves politically and economically, and not to provide for the actual well-being of communities, families, or individuals. This episode is a small section of a longer recording in which I speak about how we might potentially build a society which bypasses and negates the need for the institutions and gives power over the individual's life back to the individual. But for now, a short treatise on public education. https://youtu.be/kyWFpsAnVuI https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/map-coronavirus-and-school-closures.html