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cockroachinapartyhat 🪳@Em0nM4stodon in my (US) culture at least we are conditioned to give up our privacy and consent from birth. Authoritarian parenting, school systems, then work environments are all exercises in giving up our own autonomy. It's depressing but should be no surprise at all that so many people give it up willingly as adults who should be able to make choices in their own interest
@cockroachinapartyhat This is very true, and an excellent point to understand better how we can help the next generations out of this dehumanizing authoritarian culture of control.
@Em0nM4stodon my partner and I are in the process of starting a K-12 school centered on collaboration, equity and autonomy and when I try to explain the idea of what we're doing you should see how uncomfortable people (adults) get. "But if you don't punish them how will you get them to behave?" "Why would they try hard if they don't get a grade?" Like... We've been controlling people for so long we forgot that we're actually a social species
@cockroachinapartyhat I was lucky enough to experience such schooling when I was younger.
Society would be so much better if every school were centered on collaboration, equity, and autonomy. Thank you so much for doing this 💚
Chris Wolff 
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Yeah, and then people you work with act confused when you ask permission to take a picture, even of the thing in the closet that's supposed to control the system for the rest of the building, that doesn't work, and that way you can go back to doing your actual job and go digging for user manuals or better yet repair manuals on your own time from your own computer. Sorry I "only" work(ed) for the city; that still makes it a government job, technically. Sorry it's "only" the on demand hot water thing in the closet. So we're clear, no one actually said any of that, or at least not to me (probably not at all, I would guess). That's what I was thinking, though, because you know where else the city has control panels that have to do with water, where you'd better not dare take a picture of anything without permission? Yeah, the treatment plant. That's probably a federal offence, as well it should be. How much of a reach am I really making with my rationale here?