It doesn't matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they'll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can re-educate but the process for doing so isn't teaching them marx, it's making them hate the constructed consumptive identity.

You may be able to teach them marx later. But eliminating the constructed reality and inoculating them to falling back into it is a prerequisite beforehand.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I misread the title as

I genuinely think American CHUDs are too stupid for self-reflection

and clicked through with the intention of writing a whole thing about how its not a matter of intelligence, but that there's just not much public examples of self-reflection in society. It's a behavior you learn from seeing peers and parents do, and we're (at least) several generations into a negative feedback loop.