Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?
Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they’re false.
Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: “Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable.” Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.
Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.
-Detachment (2011) Directed by Tony Kaye
A film to educate you even if you are educated already.
I love that this film is about the relationship of complexity in the education system.
What we actually learn in real life is something more valuable, but we also need education because the education system shares knowledge with each student who has common beliefs and goals, and that’s what creates a tribe of learning.
Knowledge is important but knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
Mark Tacastacas 
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