Prohibition and the Profit Motive: How the US Sold Control as Virtue by TheMadPhilosopher in c/economics@lemmy.ml
[-] TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I wrote this piece to challenge the idea that Prohibition was ever about virtue.

If you’ve ever felt like history was sanitized or weaponized, this is for you.

Appreciate any feedback or thoughts—especially from folks who care about systems, history, or propaganda.

Thanks for reading.

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Prohibition and the Profit Motive: How the US Sold Control as Virtue (ko-fi.com)
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Prohibition wasn’t just a moral crusade—it was a market strategy.

This piece explores how the U.S. government used the 18th Amendment to criminalize behavior for profit, partner with organized crime, and manufacture obedience through scarcity.

When you follow the money, the morality myth crumbles fast.

This $5 eBook version helps me keep going.

It funds the next piece.

It keeps the lights on—literally.

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Can’t support at all? Please share this with someone who needs to know.

Thank you for being here.

Every view, every read, every repost—

you’re helping me fight back with facts.

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Declaration of Educational Warfare by TheMadPhilosopher in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[-] TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

This is exactly why I post in these spaces—so I can learn just as much as I speak. I hadn’t heard of Pedagogy of the Oppressed before, but I just looked it up and I’m floored. That idea—that liberation must come from the oppressed themselves, and that internalized oppression must be rejected—is everything I believe about education, revolution, and reclaiming power.

Praxis as reflection and action… that hit me hard. I’m definitely going to dive deeper into Freire now. Thank you for sharing that knowledge with me.

Declaration of Educational Warfare by TheMadPhilosopher in c/anarchism@lemmy.ml
[-] TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Wow, I really appreciate this response. You’re right—what we’re dealing with isn’t just an education system that’s “not working,” it’s one that’s working exactly as intended. The standardization of thought, emotional suppression, and the illusion of choice all serve the same machinery.

You nailed it with: “Our most powerful weapon is questioning and reading from all sources.” That’s literally the whole point of my piece—if we aren’t allowed to ask who benefits from our ignorance, then we’re not being educated… we’re being indoctrinated. Thank you for bringing that clarity.

Declaration of Educational Warfare by TheMadPhilosopher in c/anarchism@lemmy.ml
[-] TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

I wrote this because the crumbling education system is something deeply personal to me. It’s not just broken—it’s familiar.

Has anyone else ever felt like you had to unlearn and reteach yourself just to actually understand the world?

Because when a system fails us that hard, we’re forced to become our own teachers. And that’s where resistance begins.

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Declaration of Educational Warfare (ko-fi.com)
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Declaration of Educational Warfare — A Manifesto from the Classroom Frontlines

> This is not a reform. This is a rebellion.

I wrote this as a public declaration—because the education system is not broken.

It was built this way.

What we call “school” is often just a pipeline: from trauma, to obedience, to silence. This isn’t about fixing it. This is about burning it down and building something that actually nurtures minds.

Declaration of Educational Warfare

Subject Index: education reform, political indoctrination, propaganda in schools, American history, truth in education, anti-authoritarian, critical thinking, curriculum manipulation, modern revolution, cultural warfare, media literacy, civic responsibility, youth empowerment, educational resistance, information control, censorship in education, radical pedagogy

Declaration of Educational Warfare by TheMadPhilosopher in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[-] TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

I wrote this because the crumbling education system is something deeply personal to me. It’s not just broken—it’s familiar.

Has anyone else ever felt like you had to unlearn and reteach yourself just to actually understand the world?

Because when a system fails us that hard, we’re forced to become our own teachers. And that’s where resistance begins.

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Declaration of Educational Warfare (ko-fi.com)
submitted 6 days ago by TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.ee to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
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Declaration of Educational Warfare — A Manifesto from the Classroom Frontlines

This is not a reform. This is a rebellion.

I wrote this as a public declaration—because the education system is not broken.

It was built this way.

What we call “school” is often just a pipeline: from trauma, to obedience, to silence. This isn’t about fixing it. This is about burning it down and building something that actually nurtures minds.

Declaration of Educational Warfare

~Subject index: education reform, political indoctrination, propaganda in schools, American history, truth in education, anti-authoritarian, critical thinking, curriculum manipulation, modern revolution, cultural warfare, media literacy, civic responsibility, youth empowerment, educational resistance, information control, censorship in education, radical pedagogy~

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