I dont see how the industrial complex is the most important thing to our society, here in the states.

I do see a cultural tendency to associate wealth with success. A notion that confuses me and I dont subscribe to, however is very prevalent here.

In the early 2000 the focus was college prep. College was marketed as the average persons line to success (wealth).

Today I think a lot of teachers are just trying to get through the day. The United States education, in my area, seemed to have peaked when I was in school. When the Bush administration passed the "no child left behind" act.. I've since watched education go in the shitter. It should have been called "pass every student no matter what". Also around 2010 they switched from teaching 5/6 year olds phonics and instead tried "sight words" for a time. A massive failure. I believe they have gone back to phonics now, I hope.

In the states, schools sign contracts with tech companies to supply chrombooks to each student, but like I mentioned, dont teach music composition anymore. Students of today, it's been noted to me by professionals I work with, absolutely have less tolerance for difficult things than the students 20 years ago. But in my discussions, it's not evident why. Even children with low/no/modersted screen time stuggle with task tolerance. So I don't know.

I do know my state (2nd or 3rd state in the country for quality of k-12 education) now has public community college education available for free, or nearly nothing. Ive seen the flyers and buildings, I don't know much about it, but I'm proud my state is offering alternatives to the large expensive universities. They are trying very hard to invest in the the everyday person here.

Just lay off "school is just a place you are trained to be a worker" alluding it is not important or meaningful outside of training machine cogs. It's a juvenile thought made with little consideration to other invaluable educational experiences within childhood education. The purpose of school is to have an intelligent, healthy society capable of critical thought so that we may uphold democracy and society as a whole. Have we swayed from this in the last 10,15, 20 years? A good question. But I've heard the school/worker machines comment for longer than that.

Not as long as the industrial complex is the most important thing to our society.

Well, it's not. We outsourced the bulk of our heavy industry to East Asia 30 years ago.

Now the most important thing to our society is sales and marketing.