Working hard to protect human culture from those who would prefer to see it surrounded by a most and accessed via a toll bridge controlled by them?

It's not just about having access for myself, it's also about cutting off the money supply to the industry.

Having the Library of Alexandria for myself isn't going to protect me from the ignorance of savages. Only ensuring that they too have a copy can do that.

Will people latch on to this and try to disseminate it? Probably.

Will they be any more impartial than the news media?
Doubtful.

Eventually people might realize that they can't trust reporting, that they must survey things for themselves, and that they shouldn't trust people who make decisions without surveying things for themselves, because those people don't know shit. Probably not, but it could happen.

They'll be old by then, though, and another generation of naive people will be fleeced.

Make a script that pseudorandomly removes and replaces obscure fonts if you're that concerned.

It's called running amok. It's caused by an evil tiger spirit that enters the body and causes us to commit evil acts.

Does this bring anything to the table that Groovy doesn't?

As far as I'm concerned, this is completely unheard-of in my country. Standards are generally pre-set, and if half of the class fails where the previous year's students had few problems, well, that's their problem, nobody's going to lower the standards for this year's class.

The philosophy that schools are intended to teach a certain well thought out base of knowledge and only pass those who demonstrate that they've learned all of it is not universal.
 
It requires a great deal more maturity and responsibility and humility. The teacher needs to be a lot more self critical about what's in the curriculum, the students and parents need to be prepared to accept the fact that their talent and discipline may not be sufficient for the role they've decided they're interested in, and society needs to be prepared to accept that neither needs nor expectations will make a person capable if they don't have the talent or determination necessary.
 
What's popular these days is to just throw together a curriculum that relates to the course subject without regard for whether or not the students can absorb it, then just sort the class from best to worst and push the best ones forward. It's less demanding on the teacher, and it never allows their competence as a teacher to be subjected to critical analysis. It's also less demanding on the students... the teacher doesn't set the bar, the students do. And, society as a whole can look at the schools churning out certified, educated citizens and tell themselves they're doing just fine.
 
This way, when everything goes to shit, they can blame the "other", the ones who didn't play ball with the system, for their societies collapse. And, that's the most important thing. Because no pain is so bad that it can't be made 10 times worse by having someone tell you that it's your own damned fault and knowing that they are right.

It isn't "Voodoo Zombie Kung Fu Womens Prison" movies. Because that turned out to be completely awesome!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...

My favorite beer was called "Hops Candy" because it had so much hops in it. All I see coming from this is that, in the name of saving money, they found a way to make mass produced beer taste even worse.

But at least the bar will be dry.

He'll never be employed to engage in shady illegal practices after throwing his employer under the bus like this.

It's a good day.

You're not much of a student of history, are you?

Yes, and it must evolve into a system of decentralized food and energy production, decentralized manufacturing, local recycling, etc.

Your false dichotomy does not change the realities of the status quo.

Why do you feel entitled to live in huge herds, when nature repeatedly strikes such herds down? Spread out a bit and you won't create the perfect storm of circumstances that create these terrible plagues. You ought to know better, but you do it anyway, so you deserve what comes of it.

Gotta admit, I do feel cool playing hold'em while drinking scotch and smoking a Cuban cigar. But I voted for board games, cause, Catan.

That's a childish and superficial philosophy. You haven't thought it through, can't support it, and make no effort to live by it.

If you jump off a bridge, and you die, you deserved it.
 
Similarly, if you start a bank, you will trick people into giving you power, and eventually they will catch you, elevate a man whose only distinguishing characteristics are eloquence and anger, and cut off your head with a guillotine or put you in a gas chamber.

Both of these scenarios have a predictable outcome, and therefore, both of these men deserve to die.

All morality is of this nature. Sometimes you need a subtle eye to see the self-destructive nature of what you're doing, sometimes it's as obvious as walking off a cliff. But you always deserve what happens to you.