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Childhood was so completely *useless*. I got given all this information about hating myself, other people, and the world being some sort of scary, exclusive competitive place, and by comparison I got damn little information about how to actually analyze the world. It's only after I got to college that the world opened up as something you could tease apart.

This is especially counterproductive in places where the world is, or very much appears to be, some sort of scary, exclusive, competitive place. I'm not even talking about the particularly hateful bits, here (though they did NOT HELP!), just talking about the basic went-to-not-great-public-schools part of the exercise. Imo there are literally thousands of people stumbling around with this background which is part of why things are this royally dicked in 2018.

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