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Bohdan R Douglas's avatar

I personally not only believe, but know for a FACT, that the graduates coming out of the universities and colleges in America, be they Ivy League or otherwise, are not equipped to handle high level engineering because the time that was spent "acquiring" an education has been perverted by the Marxist/Socialist professors that reside in every college hiding behind their tenure. Instead of teaching students to think they have been programming them to be like themselves and the way that they think and see the world. Those graduating have diplomas that are nothing more than wallpaper because instead of studying hard and using their minds to learn and grow and to grasp and understand their chosen fields, they have all become victims of the DEI mindset. You can't produce brilliant minds under this sort of educational system, you can only produce robotic proletariats that bring nothing but what they have been programmed to bring. They have NO ability to think outside the box and develop or design anything new. All they can do is mimic what exists. THIS is the problem we have in America. We may have people that claim to be engineers, that have degrees that say that they are engineers, but most of them couldn't engineer their way out of a paper bag.

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America was a mercantile "get rich quick" scheme from the start. Yes, the Puritans et al. but endentured servants to charter companies, one and all, until the wealthiest men of the colonies wanted their share deprived of which by mercantile and imperial restrictions in trade and the Proclomation of 1763 in regards to real estate.

Boursgeosie Yankee commerce and industry eclipsed the agrarian South from Recosntruction on but teh gov't was always of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.

Technical innovation does indeed follow its own path, each discovery relying upon the last. You learn chemistry that way. It's heirarchical.

Republics are more apt to make use of advances, since the Mahabharata, but are also vulnerable more vulnerable to it than Traditional civilization, ancient China being maybe the most conservative.

Today, however, digital electronics and rocket technoogy have turned the tables on WW2 conventional combined arms requiring major industrial base. HAMAS has demonstrated that once again although so has every colonial liberation movement from teh Viet Minh to the Taliban and these were all more Traditional in their own histories than communist.

In fact, looking at the Russian Federation, one might even say the most "backward" Tradional cultures sprung into industry via Marx but with its collapse wound up with superior Traditional adaptations.

This happened in the lat 18th Century Enlightenment via Catherine of Russia and Frederick of Prussia as well. They essentially reorganized their fedual class system to exploit the nobility as intrepreneurs in lieu of the bourgeoise they lacked. It was all very deliberate and based upon studies and reports however.

Russian state munitions corporations clearly out perform US vnedorsd for profit and don't agitate for perpetual war since they are part of the gov't and only part for profit.

I think that is path. Technology won't stop but you can learn robotics from Arduino robot toy kits for kids-$ 50 at Amazon, you get a processor, code, sensors and actuators-enough to build an "if-then" robot. There's plenty of metal and sophisticated tools/machines availbale ot build most anything. The blacksmith of today may well be a guy with CNC machinery or a 3D Printer. It's not how you do it but what you do with it and uyeah, like blacksmithing, scythe, braodaxe and adz, all that. But we also don't have scores of slaves or indentured servants either nor want labor under those conditions i.e. H-1B visas!

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