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Flinkhetens forbannelse (eller:byråkratiets selvforsterkende dumskap)
I Norge (og resten av den vestige verden) er hele utdanningen styrt av konformitet og karakterer.
De mest lojale og konforme blir kalt flinke; de slipper inn på høyere utdanning, får jobb, og blir forfremmet.
Alle byråkratier (også profesjonsbyråkratier) rekrutterer de "flinkeste" innen sitt snevre fagfelt, og slik blir de befolket av konforme imitatorer som blindt følger ethvert direktiv og enhver ordre uten å stille et eneste spørsmål…
Ifølge Peter-prinsippet vil ethvert byråkrati bli gjennomsyret av inkompetanse:
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
Dette skjer i det private såvel som i det ofentlige, og kan forklare den overveldende dumskap som preger dagens Norge, og det aller meste av den kapitalistiske verden…‽
Den største fordelen med konformitet er trygghet; (tryggheten er illusorisk straks verden ikke er forutsigbar)
Den største ulempen er motstand mot forandring
(Tittelen på dette innlegget kan også være "flinkhetens paradoks", "De flinkes innbitte dumskap", e.l.…)
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
“School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people loose their incentive to develop independently; they no longer find it attractive to relate to each other, and the surprises that life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition are closed.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
“Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
"The mere existence of school discourages and disables the poor from taking control of their own learning.”
— Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”
—John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018)
"Imitation and conformity can create high degrees of intra-group homogeneity and inter-group heterogeneity, and on a faster time scale than that of biological evolution."
"When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion."
— Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
"It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
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