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REVOLUTIONARY_EDUCATION

                                             June    21, 2026
                                        Rev: October 15, 2026


George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope" (1994)
                                                         http://georgescialabba.net/mtgs/agni/

    "Class stratification, sometimes violently enforced,
    and ethnic or religious civil wars are the immediate
    human prospect, for which no intensive pedagogy will
    be required to enlist most ordinary people."

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                                                      FALLBACK

    Scialabba takes his project as following
    the path of civilization to a higher
    civilization, and since he can see no             "It'll get worse
    future excect a breakdown into warfare, he         before it gets
    steps down from any hope of leadership.            better."

                                                         -- Dashiell Hammet's
       This strikes me as short-sighted:                    Continental Op.
       in the present moment, we're
       assuming that enough remains of
       the electoral integrity of the            One of my "optimistic"
       United States to fix our problems         scenarios is that the
       by conventional political means.          real masters of the scene
                                                 may pretend to "lose"
       If it becomes clear that the process      some upcoming elections,
       has been totally corrupted, then          intalling "moderates"
       we might have no hope of a solution       that will look better without
       except for revolution, that doesn't       actually fixing the core
       obviate the need for intellectuals--      problems.

       Revolutions, civil wars, coups and             But the idea that
       counter-coups...  they're often such           they're wise enough to
       a complete mess-- keeping the cure             go with "better throw
       from getting worse than the disease            'em a bone this time"
       would be the immediate task at hand.           seems like a stretch.

                                                         (Several months after
                                                         the attack on Iran,
                                                         it seems more likely.)

              Consider the available
              historical models...

                     French
                     American
                     Russian

                             Can you improve on them?


      Here's a question:                               When the house of cards
                                                       is kicked over, can you
      South Korea, in 1980 had a dictatorship          provide some plans on
      take power by a military coup, which             what to build next?
      was expelled from power in 1988-- how
      did they pull that trick off?




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