Buddha Brushing His Teeth
21st August 2021
Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.
We all know how far and fast it went downhill from there, no need to rehash it here, the point is, the White striver class quickly fell in love with standardized tests, because now Soccer Mom and Absentee Dad had proof that their little snowflake was “gifted,” as it then was. Never mind that the whole country soon turned into Lake Wobegon, where all children are above average, at first informally and then by federal law (No Child Left Behind is a strong contender for “dumbest piece of legislation in the history of mankind,” and that is one stratospheric fucking bar).
And more of the same.