Gospel of Wealth
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Yeah!
Lewiston is located on the Great Falls of the Androscoggin river. Transportation and harnessing the river’s energy were big reasons why.
Textile mills were the industrial base of the town from the industrial revolution all the way up until the end of last century. Lewiston made a lot of uniforms for a lot of soldiers in a lot of wars, among other things.
Our mayor, who I seem to recall selling mushrooms out of a van in a Phish parking lot in 1997, has plainly stated that he wants Lewiston to become a “service city”. He’s not from Lewiston or even Maine.
Becoming a service city is done by decriminalizing drugs and the behaviors that accompany them, doing the same with prostitution and then funneling money into nonprofits.
You also need lots of migrants if you’re going to have migrant services.
What’s not to love if you’re a politician? Your buddies get millions and you get to declare political victory as a provider of “solutions”. The conditions this creates often has the positive side effect of driving your political opponents out of your jurisdiction entirely. Conservatives have been packing up and leaving for a while now.
If the people who still live in the town don’t want to become a “service city”, just bring in people who do and get the translators needed for them to cast votes in our elections. It’s that simple.
Thats his vision?
That guy sounds like an asshole. He’s turning it into a long term truck stop full of pan handlers and hookers.
Call it what ever they want to soften the blow of what it is, thats just a stupid, shitty idea.
None of these people have shown me any signs of high intelligence. Cunning, yes.
The local politicians are just running the playbook someone else drew up. They scatter from clarity like cockroaches and attack the character of anyone who objects to their plans.
There’s a lot of money in emotional blackmail these days.
Hey, have you thought about putting the call out for TNation voters? We could all pour in, vote however you’d like, and then hit the beach. I mean, sure, we’re going to need housing. And food. And a gym. But those could be taken care of by…someone.
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In Maine we believe that food, housing, transportation, health care and education are human rights.
That’s why the entire world is welcome here in Lewiston. Because we care so deeply.
We could probably swing a school board or city council election with the t nation vote if I could print up enough voting guides that have picture instructions to make sure this crowd fills in the right circles on the ballot.
They did.
To Zecarlos point, much of the educational foundation they provided was as much about social conditioning as it was content itself, however. They needed people to value things like punctuality, adherence and so on.
The background context was largely an agrarian society though, and humans were pretty feral by today’s standards. The Industrial Revolution was a true paradigm shift.
But, industrialists did incorporate structured education in their plans, which had previously only been available to the wealthy elite.
Ford specifically paid above normal wages, had early concepts of employee welfare employed and a slew of other things definitely not slaveholder related.
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I think he did.
Ford was one of the first companies to start a 5 day, 40 hour work week. Likely the first one of that size to do so. He also paid his employees well. When he started the 5 day, 40 hour work week, he also started the $5 dollar/day pay. That was roughly double the pay that manufacturing work paid per day, and his employees were working less hours.
He wanted low turnover. He wanted loyal employees, and his policies achieved that. He wanted them to be happy with their jobs and the lives that those jobs provided them. Ford employees had it good back in the day.
I agree with your sentiment in the post I responded to. Just Ford might have not been a great example.
There seems to be a growing attitude lately about what is worth learning and what isn’t. Things deemed as “intellectual” seem to be devalued compared to things directly related to a job (skill training). I think with skills type education it is easy to see a more direct link to that information being useful. I think in general that the more intellectual subjects are being seen as not useful / ability to monetize. I think that is a mistake, I think a more correct view of those subjects is that they have an indirect way of being useful. They can help one think in a way that is different from just skills training.
Their emotions, bad habits, and flaws.
Because it’s about the value others perceive you having, as it relates to what they need, vs the value you see yourself having.
It all sounds like metaphysical hippy crap, but it’s the foundation of classical liberalism. Look at the US; a nation of sick people. Obesity, mental illness, drug addiction, anger, hate, violence, etc. The rot set in years ago. But let’s keep doing what we’re doing.
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This.
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One could easily argue that he did these things to give people who were working a mundane, repetitive job for the next 30 plus years enough to keep them from thinking about that reality.
These are important issues as manufacturing and other jobs become more and more automated. It’s why people bring up ideas like UBI. In the past a slave or peasant, the majority of the population, were too busy suffering and trying to survive to contemplate the universal questions. Now, even morons are literate and have access to the internet. If people are going to be elevated, for lack of a better term, above peasant and subject status, thanks in part to public education, they are going to question the status quo. I don’t want them finding the answers in ideas that contradict western cultural values.
These are the type of ideas that really don’t translate into public policy. Sure, a federal bureaucracy can set a curriculum, but whatever benefit might be derived from it is of little consequence when it comes to how well government policy promotes public prosperity.
Educators like to talk about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and boy, they sure have here in Lewiston. It would seem to me that all of our education policies are built on rather lofty visions about what educators believe is attainable in public schools.
Meanwhile, there are now thousands of fights in Lewiston Public Schools. THOUSANDS. From a need hierarchy standpoint, setting our policies around the lofty visions of education experts has coincided with institutional collapse and the interruption of learning for thousands of children.
Progressives in Maine have regressed our society back to struggling with the most basic of problems that governments were organized to solve in the first place. Safety and security to raise families and conduct business.
But hey, all of the latest ideas in social-emotional learning, trans inclusivity, and trauma management have been successfully incorporated in Lewiston Public Schools. We follow the science around here.
This is incorrect. Many teachers have issues with SEL. The thing is, they don’t decide these policies which are often mandated by law.
They make excellent elective choices.
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You wouldn’t have any choices if it weren’t for them. You won’t have any choices if you forget that.
Make America Masculine Again.
Ah. Well I’ve learned a lot more about self-awareness and management of these by living and experiencing, including and maybe especially in business, vs reading about fictional lovers killing themselves over an imaginary miscommunication.
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That one doesn’t come out too well as an acronym.
Make
America
Masculine
Again
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