Behavioral Engineering and Common Core

Posted by CarolSeer2014 9 years, 7 months ago to Education
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From The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly "mass effect". The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behaviorial responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species, but never with more telling effect than by the Goweachin on Dosadi.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago
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    Here, they showed us the "Walden Fallacy" in ultimate foolishness, explaining: "Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal."

    I'm hoping we can abolish Common Core before lethality sets in.

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