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> It feels like more of our government is broken or perverted than is actually functioning correctly and beneficially. Yes. It’s my understanding the goal of t

> It feels like more of our government is broken or perverted than is actually functioning correctly and beneficially. Yes. It’s my understanding the goal of the US government is to maintain the status quo. It doesn’t much matter that the status quo is a Kafka-esque dystopian nightmare. It’s working as intended. In other words: I’m closing this bug report; working as intended

giantg2 5y ago
True. I guess the real bug is that we are generally lied to by teachers and other adults while growing up. So we expect this just, righteous, effective system, only to realize it's full of incompetence, contradictions, and even corruption.
- Pulcinella 5y ago
  I mean, I tried to “drop some truth” on my high school students when I was a teacher, but reactionary administrators and politicians (and sometimes parents) don’t like it when you try to “brainwash” students (I.e. say anything other than how the current system is natural and perfect).
- hn_version_0023 5y ago
  I think that’s a symptom too. The root cause seems to be the notion that children must be “protected from the truth” so they can lead a carefree youth. Then kids turn 18 and the mask drops and — at least for me — the number of WTFs is never ending. I’m 46yro and I still don’t understand why I was told so many lies… except of course I do understand: adults don’t want to explain their shittyness to a bunch of kids. Just imagine if our collective parents had to deal with a generational outcry demanding they stop fucking around, stop stealing from our future, stop lying, etc. Society as we know it would end, necessarily replaced by something more just. Can’t have that! The status quo it is then. FML; YMMV
  - 8note 5y ago
    You can argue that either is a side effect. Hiding the status quo is something you'd do to maintain the status quo, just as much as not knowing the status quo reduces your wants to get away from it
    - hn_version_0023 5y ago
      So what’s the bug? How can we identify and fix the problem?

giantg2 5y ago

True. I guess the real bug is that we are generally lied to by teachers and other adults while growing up. So we expect this just, righteous, effective system, only to realize it's full of incompetence, contradictions, and even corruption.

Pulcinella 5y ago
I mean, I tried to “drop some truth” on my high school students when I was a teacher, but reactionary administrators and politicians (and sometimes parents) don’t like it when you try to “brainwash” students (I.e. say anything other than how the current system is natural and perfect).
hn_version_0023 5y ago
I think that’s a symptom too. The root cause seems to be the notion that children must be “protected from the truth” so they can lead a carefree youth. Then kids turn 18 and the mask drops and — at least for me — the number of WTFs is never ending. I’m 46yro and I still don’t understand why I was told so many lies… except of course I do understand: adults don’t want to explain their shittyness to a bunch of kids. Just imagine if our collective parents had to deal with a generational outcry demanding they stop fucking around, stop stealing from our future, stop lying, etc. Society as we know it would end, necessarily replaced by something more just. Can’t have that! The status quo it is then. FML; YMMV
- 8note 5y ago
  You can argue that either is a side effect. Hiding the status quo is something you'd do to maintain the status quo, just as much as not knowing the status quo reduces your wants to get away from it
  - hn_version_0023 5y ago
    So what’s the bug? How can we identify and fix the problem?