CULTURE OF MEDIOCRACY: Some thoughts about education, conformity, and mediocrity

	Watch TV
	enjoy ice cream
	drink beer 'n coffee
	as the planet decays

	Remember "Be like the rest"
	is a credo that works out best

	Minimize risk
	'n live in computerized bliss

	Make your own home comfy 
	'n ignore disarray

	Focus solely on
	your tiny sphere 
	Do What Authorities Ask
	& Learn to Fear.

	Your role is simply ta work -
	not question things that appear

	In a world with billions ah tiny worker-bees 
	there's little tolerance
	for deviancy.


Melissa: Whudz dis?

Satoru:  Isn't it a basic educational agenda?

Melissa: Ya kun't be serious!

Satoru:  Why not? Mass stupidity mucks folks eazier ta manage.

Melissa: Yeah, bud how kuld humans ever konsent ta stupidity?

Tim:     Who said consent wuz necessary?

Liao:    Right – with skillful manipulation you kun "dumb down"
         a populace without most folks even noticing . . . .

Melissa: Dang! Are we really that easy to program?


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A conversation, poem, and digital image about mass education and social compliance.
KEYWORDS: social conformity, education for mediocracy, social isolation, mediocrity,
Some thoughts about education, conformity, and mediocrity.

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2006 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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