Mister Education

Due to copyright restrictions I’m unable to call him Mr. Ed.  That sentence alone will likely get me banned from the Internet, but we’ve had a good run.

Basic education has not been too educational for decades, and boy howdy did it come back to bite us (the world) in the ass, didn’t it?!?  After WWII the big favorites for top dog got nervous about each other.  The atomic bomb didn’t just horrifically savage lives by the blast, it proved beyond any serious doubts that technology was outpacing government capacity to deal with properly socializing the angry masses.  Russia chose the, “Hey we’ve always been an imperialist autocracy, so let’s just call ourselves communists and keep going that way.”  The U.S., “Hey capitalism is GREAT for rich assholes ruining the lives of those that are exploited, let’s have slaves instead of calling them slaves” angle.

Whether you wanted to go with the mad scientist getting top notch funding for tech advance or the educate the masses so education could be privatized into a wealth extraction capitalist scam, the superpowers and smaller players did give us a bright and shiny moment of, oh about 25 years from 1948-1973ish.  The American dream idea.  Mom and Dad got decent paying jobs.  But they actually had to spend time at work and it’s perfectly natural that SOMEBODY had to socialize the little brats.  So let’s underpay teachers, but talk up how great it is to be involved in the education.  And let’s make sure that toxic masculinity, unscientific religious values, and racist/xenophobic/bad economic & political info gets equal voice because FREE SPEECH DAMMIT!  And guns because, REPRESENTATION WITHOUT CONFLATION MEANS I NEED MY EQUALIZER SINCE NOBODY LIKES ME!!!  DAMMIT!!

The Internet finished off the last vestiges of humanity in an ultra competitive and toxic social environment.  Throw little Johnny in front of a smartphone and now he’s smarter than everyone because of Mr. Ed.  Or rather let’s call him Mr. Gematria because that’s what he calls himself.  Calculus and Trigonometry?  Totally unnecessary.  History?  We’re just going to change it.  English?  You don’t need to be great at English to not pay your bills, break alliances, parrot ludicrous tariff misinformation or lie about climate change.  But a little gematria, yeah that’ll fix everything right up.

Mr. Gematria’s YouTube channel is in its infancy right now.  Testing the waters to look for what sinks and what swims.  The three week old 9/11 conspiracy video has 2.6k views, the others from about 20 to 100 views.  And just like yesterday’s story these paltry view counts are all that could be mustered with over 6k subscribers.  I’d suggest the math doesn’t work, but the anti-science movement has ruined my education.

But he is trying.  Along with the undying 9/11 BS, there’s a They Live gematria recap and other openly titled conspiracy theory material there’s the latest video about a day old.  Super Bowl 60 & Bad Bunny.  And if you hadn’t had a reason to sell your soul to gematria confirmation bias Qanon cult insanity, you get the high quality intro that Zach would be proud of.

Don’t forget to like the video, fuck faces.

And he didn’t even say, “Please?” like one would expect coming from a Mister.  Although since education and even basic social skills aren’t called for in this day and age we can be sure that a gematria channel titled Mr. Fuckfaces is out there.  Somewhere.  Because nothing makes a person surrender they’re lunch money like being called a fuck face.

Just a short flyby on some of the video material, the gematria quality - sucks.  

The actual calculator is serviceable and does yield “correct” gematriot.  If that can actually be considered a real thing.  But the narrative and especially the quality of matches and how they are presented is lacking.  There’s Phraseshoppping aplenty, and the picture- that’s 72.  Because you drop zeroes and rearrange stuff all the time and that makes all kinds of sense.  If you want to teach the next generations of fuck faces to build hydrogen fuel cell reactors in their basement, you’re going to need them to park their butt in school and pay attention to a fairly simple reality that 72 and 270 are different numbers.  At least long enough to get a large enough crowd you can divvy out Attaboy!’s to that can influence the next election.