To me, education is about learning how to learn,

Idealistically. If only schools were taught in that way.

Right now, it unfortunately seems that the whole world is actively burning anything good we have in order to be a cog in the machine that makes the disgustingly wealthy even more so.

Actively and happily it seems. It is quite nihilistic, but driven by hedonism of a sort. I think it leaves us broken - because unless we are truly able to go off-grid and survive, society will collapse around us.

If anyone thinks that menial tasks being handled by ai (that is controlled by the insane) will mean we simply have more time to do the things we want to do, well they might be right.

It is those menial tasks, those entry level positions that help us learn for more, while paying a little along the way. Imagine a coder who has to be better than the AI - they first have to learn all the basics and then all the advanced, and then the expert levels, before they can start adding value. They will be 50 before they get their first job, and a year later, they will be obsolete anyway.

I choose to not let the sky fall on me and to take control of what I can.

I feel like the sky is falling on me at the moment perhaps. Fighting a losing battle. Still fighting though I guess.