practice 2

PRACTICE 2

Yesterday we discussed how training for the military or corporation is largely worthless.  Training is usually a Gatekeeper.  In the military, you must be brainwashed into the proper mindset so you will belong to that particular system ( and, they need to wipe out that BS civilian prohibition on initiating violence ).  All the “Army Training, Sir” isn’t as important as the propaganda.  The corporation sends you to college so that you become a good little PC Soldier.  They want you to be feminine in nature, which better suits modern corporation structure ( Machiavellian rather than cooperative ).

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As a cop, you are usually put on the street with an experienced partner who tells you to forget everything you learned in the academy.  The training was a gatekeeper.  You learn the real trade from someone actually practiced ( you can usually tell the ones not OJT’ed, the ones straight from school to position such as Constables or Bailiff’s, as they are book smart and street stupid ).  The student from medical school has to go through internship to get real world experience shown to them.  The school was background training and was an economic gatekeeper. 

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Then, the sleep deprivation and double shift schedule acts as a form of brainwashing to instill the real training based on those well practiced.  The military does the same with lack of proper sleep.  As does, to a degree, the graveyard shift rookies inevitable work on the force.  This is a bit of a shortcut, the brainwashing and trauma training of those entrusted with violence or life saving.  Luckily for us old bastards that already went through that crap, we are already practiced in the real world, at least to the degree highly civilized folks can be.  We already have the background.

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Trauma training isn’t just about brainwashing of course.  You do get a sense of accomplishment and confidence surviving the training.  It isn’t JUST a gatekeeper.  It trains you in other ways, so it isn’t useless.  But once you have experienced it, even in a completely unrelated field, you don’t need a repeat.  If you didn’t experience it, you have the duplication of a career in a regular job that slowly but steadily gave you experience and confidence.  The “civilian” version is just slower, years or decades rather than weeks or months.  By our age, we get to shortcut new training. 

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So, by now, you realize it is NOT training.  It is practice.  Your training can easily be a book.  Or even a YouTube video.  Training courses are  usually just a money making scheme.  Because the guy training you cannot force you to practice ( I speak of informal settings here ).  If you JUST go to Gunsite Academy or a Tactical Tommy course, you will of course encounter new information.  But if you don’t practice you have learned nothing.  They aren’t worthless, as you might avoid reinventing the wheel, but they also are not mandatory. 

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Do you really NEED to go to a wilderness survival class?  Or could you just go into the woods and start practicing woodcraft?  I don’t care for the concept of tactical training as it emulates a military taught to endanger themselves at close range.  As I said, stalking animals would be better practice.  But if you did insist on ninja training, would Airsoft be good practice?  I know my paintball experience was great for realizing how wasteful and expensive semi-auto was.  I don’t have any experience in Airsoft, so I don’t know the pro’s and con’s.  Paintball seemed to be too limiting to be overly practical.

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Paintballs are too slow and the trajectory blows.  Plus, the range.  It was fun as hell, of course.  So was woodcraft, when I was a kid.  I just never practiced enough.  Let’s switch gears and talk about cooking.  Yes, I know it is not everyone’s cup of tea.  I don’t cook because I’m a Foodie.  I cook because I eat healthier and cheaper.  Almost every YouTube video I watch on cooking something new, my experience differs widely.  Even following directions exactly, I can’t even come close to duplicating.  That taught skill was very poor training.

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I practice that dish a few times, it finally gets better results.  Inevitably, you must do something a little different.  That is why you practice.  To make perfect.  If I had gone to school to be a cook, I’d be out money and only be good at what I practiced enough in class.  Why would I have gone to the class?  There aren’t a million cookbooks out there?  The class has better equipment?  Right.  Money making scheme.  Read ( or watch ) to familiarize, then just start practicing.  That barber college you go to?  The students learn everything by butchering your hair at a discount.

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All the class time is a monopoly gatekeeping device.  Anyone can cut hair.  With enough practice.  You can teach yourself whatever you want, as cheaply as you want.  You don’t need classes, and certainly NEVER buy expensive equipment at first.  Determine if reloading is for you by getting a Lee Loader, first.  Then you can drop $500 on the slick machines, if you get serious.  When you are learning to change spark plugs, you don’t need a few thousand bucks in Snap-On tools.  A few China Mart ones will get you started.

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Taught skills are entirely functional, but not how they are done today.  An apprenticeship was on the job training, with practice.  So much practice it was monotonous and dull.  Because you always started at the bottom.  You didn’t start learning to work leather, but perhaps by tanning it first ( if I’m not mistaken, dog crap was a favorite addition to the water soak of the hides.  Yummy ).  Or other similar grunt work.  Even the dimmest bulbs could be taught through limitless repetition.  Part of today’s problems are from expecting too much so there is only training rather than practice.

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Another aspect is greed.  Not only do those owning businesses expect you to train yourself, on your dime, they also want to pay you ever less in wages.  But that is inherent in capitalism.  A race to the bottom.  Do you notice how some of the few apprenticeships left are in Union trades?  I used to hate Unions, buying into the crony capitalism/globalism propaganda.  With experience working for those jokers, I would welcome Unions and severe tariffs again.  But be that as it may.  As things are constructed today, it is best to avoid most training, and just do it yourself, with practice.

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