FDR0082 Public Schools (Part 1)
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/public_schools_part_1.mp3

"The children are stuck into brutal, brain-deadening, horrible, repetitive, mentally exhausting, boring, mindless environments for a decade and a half, and then are sent home to do the worst kind of brain dead busywork in the form of homework, where you're never told any reason for what you're learning...and no topics that would actually be useful to people are ever taught."

FDR0083 Public Schools (Part 2)
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/public_schools_part_2.mp3

"It's very hard for a teacher to use the argument from morality... something simple like 'what's good for one is good for all', 'moral rules should apply to everyone equally throughout time', because it's just so blatantly obvious that if you start going down that path then the public school system is revealed as a catastrophic moral evil."

FDR0084 Public Schools (Part 3 - Vouchers)
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/public_schools_part_3_Vouchers.mp3

"You have to oppose evil at its root. Opposing the effects of evil is supporting the root of evil."

FDR0085 Public Schools (Part 4 - Alternatives)
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/public_schools_part_4_Alternatives.mp3

"Once the child understands why they're learning, they're going to be much more self-directed."

FDR0211 Childhood Prisons
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_211_Childhood_Prisons.mp3

"The moment we ask questions, we start tripping over all of the mines that are left over from our own parents' childhoods, which are brutal and prison-like... more than ours. So we all know we didn't need to be bullied, we didn't need any coercion or emotional manipulation. We just needed some honesty."

FDR0228 The Perils of Politics and Public Education
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_228_The_Perils_of_Politics_and_Public_Education.mp3

"[Public education is] a bureaucracy. So, it's a flush-able hole with no bottom. No matter how much money you pour into a bureaucracy, all it does it get bigger, more inefficient, and more poorly serve the people it's supposed to be serving. I mean, that's an iron law of economics. Wherever there's no competition, whatever you increase funding to will just get more inefficient."

FDR0235 Libertarianism for the Young: Freedom for the tweens
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_235_Teenage_Liberty.mp3

"If you want to understand why your school system is so bad, then what I would say is: can you imagine how bad CDs would be if people just had to buy them regardless of whether they liked them or not? I mean, it would just be a bunch of guys going 'hoo-wah, hoo-wah, hoo-wah'..."

FDR0661 Teenage Depression Part 1 - Threat
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_661_Teenage_Depression_Part_1_Threat.mp3

"Don't give away your treasures, especially to hypocritical ghosts. To project heroism onto others... takes it off yourself. And don't you feel that when you worship someone, that you measure yourself as small relative to them? ...don't bleed off your own capacity for greatness, don't project it onto others, don't diminish yourself by creating secular gods..."

FDR0663 Unlearning, or - why I do what I do
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_663_Unlearning.mp3

"We are bludgeoned with stories, we are buried under narrative. We are drowned in meaningless meaning, empty meaning, imagined meaning, fantasy. Choked, strangled with fantasy. And letting all of that go is a very difficult thing, a very emotional thing, for me, but... what's on the the other side is so unbelievable."

FDR0701 Digital Guttenberg Part 1
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_701_Digital_Guttenberg_Part_1.mp3

"What's happened is we are no longer required to pass muster, or to pass through the test of a highly conservative middle man who controls the communication, the discourse. Now, of course, beforehand it was really maintained through the violent force of the church, right - the church united with the state would simply torture and kill people who disagree with the central message. It's a little bit more delicate, and Noam Chomsky points this out very nicely in a number of his works, it's a little bit more delicate now. What happens is the children are taken from their parents for, you know, 6, 7, 8 hours a day if you include homework, and for fourteen or so years they're subjected to just an endless barrage of state propaganda which is generally highly conformist, highly conservative, and very much value free, other than the sentimental patriotic values of 'rah rah, our country's great'."

FDR0702 Digital Guttenberg Part 2
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_702_Digital_Guttenberg_Part_2.mp3

"The government can shut down any media outlet in 24 hours. The appeal will take years, everybody's thrown out of a job. You can destroy a network in 24 hours - just pull their license. We think about freedom of speech, and we wonder why they don't criticize the government? I mean, it's ridiculous. That's soft propaganda, soft control, right? You either line up and shoot people who disagree with you, or you give them a license and destroy their livelihood if they don't agree with you."

FDR0827 The Mythology of High School
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_827_The_Mythology_of_High_School.mp3

"What is approved of? Scoring a goal. What is disapproved of? Being bad at sports. Okay, I guess I'll do what's approved of and not do what's disapproved of. ...so the jocks have their egos artificially inflated; they can't question that because then they realize they're being exploited by their parents, and they're not being highly regarded for anything other than accidental qualities... so they seek to maintain this artificially inflated sense of importance or value. They must seek to maintain it, otherwise the corruption of their parents becomes evident."

FDR0829 Education for the Poor
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_829_Education_For_The_Poor.mp3

"...you're going to these Soviet gulags in the 1970s where people are literally starving to death on their feet, and you're saying, 'well you guys are going to have to stay the way you are because I'm concerned that in the future you might have to shop at grimy grocery stores.' I mean, they'd lynch you. Who wouldn't? ...that's madly insulting to say to people: 'you must starve to death because I'm concerned about an inequality of food distribution in the future. Though even the lowest tier of that food distribution in the future will be far far higher than where you are now.'"

FDR1453 Stefan Talks to a College Class
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_1453_stefan_talks_to_college_students.mp3

"When we expand universality, society gets better... and every particular generation looks at some new universalization and says 'well that's incomprehensible; that could never work. It's impossible! We can't free the slaves because they have no jobs, they have no work ethic, they have no skills!' ...but when we do consistently apply universal principles, society really does get better...and even though it seems like every new universalization is incomprehensible, in the future it is simply looked on as natural and it seems hard to understand why it took so long."

FDR1460 Statism and Early Education
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_1460_statism_and_early_education.mp3

"The children, they grow... and when they become teenagers, they become curious and, quite quickly, cynical. Because everyone says 'think for yourself; if everyone was jumping off the London Bridge, would you? ...oh my god, he's actually thinking for himself! Run! Attack! Scorn! Mock! Ignore! Withdraw.'"

FDR1590 Drugging Dissident Children - Dr John Breeding Interviewed
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_1590_dr_john_breeding_interview_adhd_pharma.mp3

"The whole purpose of school is to engage the children, and if the children aren't engaged - if they're distracted and not enjoying the learning process - drugging them seems as mad to me as if I bought a computer from some store and I took it back and I said 'I don't like this computer - it crashes, it's not fast, it's not what was promised me' and they won't take the computer back but they'll offer me some pill to make me happy with my purchase. I mean we would look at that as completely criminal and insane in any other market."

Reaching Students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcgmoV4asow

"Kids, they're eight years old. They understand honesty. They understand authenticity. They want their lives to be meaningful, in the same way that you do. They want to be good students. And by good students, that doesn't mean obedient students and it doesn't mean students who do well on tests, that other people define. Good students in that they want to want to learn... if you do this Chinese foot binding on kids they're not going to enjoy running around playing tag."

Full Disclosure 1 - Teachers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAiEgk0aIU

"I'm trying to teach you skepticism, so stop asking me questions..." (Stef roleplays a teacher who is forced to reveal the truth about public education to his class.)

Dr Phil and the Teachers Betray the Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CUgQPfPYeM

"Everybody knows exactly what would happen if you tried to get the public school system to become more efficient. You'd get a horse's head in your bed from the god damn public school teachers' union."

Statist Intellectuals 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pFLZy0WE4

"Intellectuals themselves are, you know, a filthy bunch of prevaricators in this sense, that they absolutely do not want take their own pill. It's for other people, you see. It's for you, it's for me - it's not for them, alright, this stuff, these rules, they're not for them. I mean, they're like the Saudi princes: 'Yes, you should follow the rule of allah and you should not consort with prostitutes and blah blah blah', but, you know, when I'm on my yacht in the French Riviera, break out the cocaine and the hookers."

The Physics of Whoredom: Intellectuals and the State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CifD32WPqCQ

"As all of these intellectuals know, who are in the university system, they all know that they are able to turn a hobby into a living because of violence. So the one thing that they can never, ever, ever, ever, ever talk about... is violence. Of course not. And that's what they're paid for."

We are not born small...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMMX-mBgbvc

"...your natural self was utterly violated, opposed, crushed, diminished, humiliated, as we have talked about before. But the important thing to know is why. Why were you ground into such a little pile of obedient and empty dust? Why? Why would people do that to you? Why would they try to make you small? Why? The answer is clear. People must try to make you small, because, my friend, you are not small. The degree of opposition, is the degree of recognition. The degree to which we are forced to be small is exactly and proportionally the degree to which we are not inately small."