to make you feel like a schoolteacher is forcing you to sit at your children's desk and write out verbatim the inane bullshit you've been assigned. no questions allowed and you'll be quizzed on this later to see if you've learned today's lesson. of course, today's lesson is always yesterday's lesson and tomorrow's lesson: you are a monkey slave being trained to do as you're told and you are rated on how well and how willingly you understand what master commands.

nb. birdbrain women on xo went through school this way and actually enjoyed the process--that is why you'll see julia or gracekelly or bluesmoke screech that all "elite" or "prestigious" or "intelligent" people parrot the party line from somewhere on the narrow NYT spectrum, don't you understand? in a sense they're right to respond to an argument with "none of my irl ivy league friends say that" because the social signaling *is* the content for them.

I think that answers your question. the nyt doesn't need to engage you intellectually because they're not asking you to let them convince you. this information highway is a one way street, goy. monkey read, monkey know. birdbrains don't have their own thoughts or ideas and they're not sure why you do or how that works--it seems pointless at best and hopelessly confusing at worst; after all, the teacher already told you what's going to be on the test.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899396&forum_id=2#35452344)