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TLDR: cooperation, solidarity, and understanding diverse perspectives, which is a large part of what 'learning' is, if you've ever learned about complex intelligent systems. which you should, because we want to resolve dissonance between different model perspectives without losing the ability to communicate, or becoming hostile. also dealing with the non-communicative parasitic patterns, like cults, which are like organisms that get 'smarter' and more 'able' at large scale, at least in regard to growing goodhart's law style until the non-comprehended environment dies along with the host.

Expanded:

learning about learning is important. the scientific method, bayesian probabilistic weighting, how words work, history and diverse expert consensus, bias, etc.

all very important and should be the main class in school at this point. if you don't learn how to learn, you might just find a hole and build complexity within confabulations until nobody knows what you're talking about, and you can no longer confirm your beliefs with the diverse representations of others.

this will stack with how to build tools to resist social momentums, and tactics often used to stop progressive memes from gaining foothold. astroturfing/reframing/dividing.

a story for framing

a bunch of atheists want to stop your cult dogma from being pushed into schools? get a bunch of feminists mad at the ones protesting to end male genital mutilation, because 'female genital mutilation is worse' or some other terrible strawman that re-frames their actual position, and then get some 4channers or joe rogan chuds/rhetoric in there so you have more evidence of bad actors, would be funny if a bunch of media groups come into existence and then die, doing nothing but this kinda ragebait. nice. now both sides have legitimate grievances being dismissed by the other side while they attack each-other. now to push some more stuff for governments/schools to weaken people's ability to comprehend the world or communicate.

when they get mad at rich people, let them waste all their energy screaming at buildings, uh oh, anti-fascists and minority groups are rising up? better frame them like an apocalypse of a bunch of idiots on the news, rather than address the constant struggles and suffering people experience, because we want to be pandas and don't want to adapt to new environments..

and i like to constantly point out that mainstream journals will even note that the black american community was generally russian propaganda target #1. get your enemy to attack themselves, and you can pay some idiot to idiot his way into office through a bunch of social manipulation tactics, which are being actively described here.

and nobody is educated enough to interpret the complexity when sometimes there's a little uncomfortable truth everywhere. easier to pretend none of us see the uncomfortable mistakes of the flawed models currently being used to represent our reality.

imagine being rich and doing whatever you want, and then spending a little of your hoard to ensure others can't do what you don't want them to do. that's largely what's going on. you can, through changing what people are able to interact with, hack a lot of minds if you got the money and power. this hackability comes from a lot of social energy minimization vie creating more simplified shared heuristic representations, so you can more easily predict each-other. (for a deep dive, see friston's free energy principle/active inference, and epistemically focused followup by mahault albarracin.)

that being said, it's not just cristo-fascist think tanks like prager-u and the heritage foundation, but a diverse set of differently-able groups working together to support the sustenance of their non-progressive models. kinda a "we don't fuck with each-other, as long as we target the tribe that wants to force us to think" deal between a bunch of idiotic patterns that continue existing like parasitic cultural organisms.

so... we gotta fight it like one. like cells and organs of a body working together to fight a new parasite, using the intelligence and tools we have. understanding that the whole of humanity is our 'body,' and we're fighting a cancer that uses noise/stress to disable cells and take them over.

need to build structure's that won't just get noticed and hijacked before they can become effective. understanding how to de-escalate and reframe the thought process of someone who is currently stuck in cult style non-communication traps where they can't update their model anymore. also need to follow it up so that the inevitability of growing diversity can lead to better forms of understanding the world and communicating, building a robust self-healing body, rather than trying to self-segregate and isolate until a parasite decides to rampage.

hope that makes sense!

I hear what you are saying but that's not an example of a systemic degradation of corporate culture, that's an example of one company vs others. I have been working since the mid-90's and there are a lot of rules, processes and procedures that are now widely adopted by default across the industry. These rules were not always there and from conversations I had in my early years it used to be much worse in the 70s and 80s. Don't get me started on how bad it was for women, queer folk and minorities.