Shoresy

American Marxism isn't real, though. It's just a scapegoat to hide the corrupt crony practices endemic to all centrally planned nations. The people in charge know they won't get paid if they kill all the golden geese. It's all pretend-like up to the point where the upper class in charge starts to feel it in the wallet.

Shoresy

Either you have state autonomy or you do not. If states want to tailor their education to match the local culture, geography, and economy, that falls in line with state autonomy. The one-size-fits-all doctrine has had detrimental effects, trying to capture all those individual aspects of all 50 states that are usually not relevant to an individual's home state. You end up with curriculum bloat and confusion. And that's before we assume a central plan isn't prone to corruption and overspending. There were multiple failure points with the USDOE.

Shoresy

It's measured in survival statistics. All morality and ethics are derivatives of survival traits. Scientifically measured with no need for hocus pocus.


Though I wouldn't say that ethics can’t be dressed up in metaphysics, it’s that it's not a requirement.

Shoresy
The (supposed) purpose of a journalist is to disseminate facts to the public for consideration.

They are not paid to consider the public. Many private interests subsidize the media. Even government subsidized media like the CBC isn't really public as it's beholden to the priorities of politicians whose main concern is securing their reelection funds, not providing unvarnished truth to the public. In both cases, the “facts” are filtered through the interests of whoever holds the purse strings.