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Education, which should be helping youth to
understand and adapt to their revolutionary new
environments, is instead being used merely as an
instrument of cultural aggression, imposing upon
retribalized youth the obsolescent visual values of
the dying literate age. Our entire educational
system is reactionary, oriented to past values and
past technologies, and will likely continue so until
the old generation relinquishes power. The
generation gap is actually a chasm, separating not
two age groups but two vastly divergent cultures. I
can understand the ferment in our schools, because
our educational system is totally rearview mirror.
It’s a dying and outdated system founded on