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What if this described me to a (lower-cased) T? Would you want to read my current, second application for funding:

  http://listenlight.net/media/ycombinator_funding_application.pdf

For maximum efficiency, my user name is 'many' and my password is 'pass'. Go ahead and tailor the application, and I will run it by you this time next month. Cheers.

Would it surpise us to realize that most famous figures in fact, were in life, bastards? Abandoning their wives and children to write about dancing girls or daisies, to claim the surf break speaks "nothingness," to drain the vitality of those around them, to kick dogs, snort cocaine, dehumanize their inspiration --- only to be rewarded by their coveted devotees? No, we all have character flaws, if only for exhibiting none apparent.

I'm sure it was an educated guess.

I'm actually recovering from paranoid schizophrenia. Slowly, I'm learning to simply analyze the noise. The signal is myth.

Not to be unkind. I live in rural kansas, where often you're funny to have called a thing by its right name.

Long day, I'm happy to be employed (finally!) but I'm broke, and my government check for being crazy doesn't come until the first.

Mel, The Story of, Jr.

The terms "school" and "society" in the same breath always compel a random dissection. I will make sentence-per-sentence marks.

___ We are all involved in schooling, from both the side of production and that of consumption. ___

I don't believe that we can distinguish these sides anymore in western culture, nor can we believe that we are all involved together, in anything.

___ We are superstitiously convinced that good learning can and should be produced in us-and that we can produce it in others. ___

Superstitiously, yes, but not in others. Learning inherently differs from knowledge. It reins in the whole of one's own life experience into a worldview and ability to perceive through those of others. Knowledge is a commodity, cf. "the end of history," and schooling, as the nearest authority on anything, will tell you that it's worth it, the ends justify the means. The poet Rilke compares scholastic commencement to "slavery."

___ Our attempt to withdraw from the concept of school will reveal the resistance we find in ourselves when we try to renounce limitless consumption and the pervasive presumption that others can be manipulated for their own good. ___

For instance: "resistance" "try" "renounce" "pervasive" "presumtion" "manipulated". . . as an example, can you recall completing a year of primary, secondary, or post-secondary school without seeing at least three of your classmates held to systematic humiliation?

__ No one is fully exempt from the exploitation of others in the schooling process. ___

As is no one of us truly involved with everyone in the schooling of others.

___ School is both the largest and the most anonymous employer of all. Indeed, the school is the best example of a new kind of enterprise, succeeding the guild, the factory, and the corporation. ___

Its first and final claim to fame.

___ The multinational corporations which have dominated the economy are now being complemented, and may one day be replaced, by supernationally planned service agencies. These enterprises present their services in ways that make all men feel obliged to consume them. ___

Bet you can't eat just one. I don't like the stark ambiguity in the use of "supernationally." The connotation is dubious.

__ They are internationally standardized, redefining the value of their services periodically and everywhere at approximately the same rhythm. ___

Mozart for babies. Just do it.

I would sell the beast and hire you.