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"Well now, you don't have to rewild on such large scales. You can start small, in your own backyard. I've been growing wildflowers for years and oh--all sorts of wee creatures have been coming to visit me."
"But now, change is frightening to some," she concedes after a little while. "And when you open your heart to rewilding a landscape, the truth is, you're opening your heart to rewilding yourself."

"You can rely on the land and you can work it, and you can feed it and care for it at the same time. You can reduce your impact. That's got nothing to do with money. We have a responsibility to reduce our impact. Rewilding is how we fight climate change, and everyone seems to have forgotten that that's the only thing that matters anymore."

Corporate America's rulers wanted to staff their offices with bland and reliable sheep, so they created a school system that selected those traits.

Bowles and Gintis then consulted similar scales for office workers, and they found that supervisors judged their workforce the way teachers judged their students. They gave low ratings to employees with high levels of creativity and independence and high ratings to those workers with high levels of tact, punctuality, dependability, and delay of gratification. To Bowles and Gintis, these findings confirmed their thesi

To Bowles and Gintis, they were evidence that the school system was rigged to create a docile proletariat. Teachers rewarded repressed drones, according to Bowles and Gintis; they found that the students with the highest GPAs were the ones who scored the lowest on the measures of creativity and independence, and the highest on the measures of punctuality, delay of gratification, predictably, and dependability.
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