Ordinary schooling trains the workforce that sustains the attention economy

Evidence

If we are going to survive the frack-beast of ubiquitous, AI-powered, nonstop hypercommodification of our humanity, we need hundreds and hundreds of NEW SCHOOLS for the cultivation of these kinds of study. Human study, for humans seeking freedom and understanding. Ironically, our “ordinary” systems of education at this point mostly function to train the workers needed to feed and tend and even grow the beast. We created our School of Radical Attention because that just isn’t good enough. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society and anti-institutional education critiques — school as reproduction of the prevailing order.