Blog entry 12/27/2012
I hope you all enjoyed my latest query about ambition and
autodidactism, (teaching oneself). You may have seen through to the sub-test
which is, fear that I cannot teach myself nor efficiently absorb novel
information. This impending deficiency,
more than the shitty character of the lower half of the staff and inmate
population, is what can make doing time difficult.
Based on the resentment expressed against educated,
well-spoken or otherwise non-ghetto comported inmates I deduce that the system
only tolerates fettered and degenerate minds.
If an inmate does not enter pre-fettered and degenerate then constant
exposure to shitty people (both inmate and staff) and restriction of
intellectual exercise cultivates a lowest common denominator inmate. Failing
this, any expression of dignity will distinguish one as out-of-line with the
expected failed person model and segregation pulls one to the deviant average
expected. Yes, expected, demanded, even required, to progress through custody levels
and achieve discharge of one’s sentence.
All the self-imposed intellectual exercises are proving to
have a lack of progress. This became
evident when I returned to the music room, after a three year absence and
quickly realized that every endeavor to learn the piano has stalled at the same
low plateau. Autodidactism has a limit
and lessons are required to progress beyond that limit. I can assure you that
brute force repetition does not convince the frontal lobe to accept – learn –
any concepts beyond one’s autodidactic limit.
Oh, Chagrin for the intellectually under stimulated
prisoner, Right? Yes, absolutely chagrin for the dormant and intellectually
starved inmate. There are many inmates
that undertake self-study in everything from law to music to language to art to
science, as well as learning a hobby / craft and physical fitness. Hobby crafts
and physical fitness are learned by physical repetition, but everything else
runs into the autodidactic limit soon after the first chapter fundamentals. No
feedback from an instructor equals no understanding beyond preliminary
fundamentals. This is what the tax payer pays for: intellectual dead zones that
disable inmates from acquiring knowledge and ever participating meaningfully in
the U.S.
market place.
Inmates cooperating to learn is an intolerable conspiracy
and the only outsiders (non-employees) allowed in are preachers.
To punctuate the point that prisons are drone factories I
offer the crippled facility that I reside in to start; it is a corporately
owned facility that operates with less program options than a civil
facility. Of these reduced programs the
two computer user and one electronic vocations classes running two sessions per
day were summarily closed this past spring.
Untouched were vocational janitorial class and construction safety
flagger certification.
Have I slipped past the event horizon of the cerebral black
hole I am swirling around?
Write to me at jason.pecci@gmail.com and comment on the
closing, and your feelings on the cerebral black hole analogy.
Jason
Jason
To get a grasp on what
Jason is saying here please watch the movie “The Freedom Writers.” (Hilary
Swank and Patrick Dempsey).This movie describes a lazy slovenly education
system in some areas that not only mirrors the attitude of the prison system but actually is
why our prison system is the largest in the world. This desire to keep inmates in that "intellectual dead zone," also is the reason there
are a large number of recidivist. MEP
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