Interesting download.
The (literally) delusional character of most people's views on international issues (on all sides) seems closely connected with the lack of any scientific concept of actually trying to understand and map reality. Politics is about ones "position" on "issues" without needing to really figure out whats going on - what the various forces are trying to achieve and what's driving that, how they see things etc.
The dogmatic approach to science education which Alan Kay criticizes as similar to dogmatic teaching of religion strikes me as closely related to the fundamental need for people not to think scientifically in order to function as wage slaves.
On the one hand they need some technical knowledge to be able to do their jobs and on the other they need to not think about society itself and their relations with other people scientifically in order to be able to accept that they "only work here" as something unchangeable commonsense rather than obsolete and changeable.
Actually learning how to think scientifically in a society based on exploitation would imply getting to grips with the actual map of social relations and how they have changed and will change.
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