Social Order vs. Education

The concept of competing interests is unruly, but the skyrocketing growth of corrections spending versus how much we spend to educate people is... what's the word? We separate these ideas of inflicting punishment, enlightenment and responsibility in such a way as to introduce higher order confusion among the populace, both in terms of incentivising the lame-ass and self-defeating rhetorical populism candidates use to win office, and how we all (mis)understand budget priorities. Taxes and what we do with them are disconnected from the realities they perpetuate - California-style tax revolt focuses on the taking, not the consequences. Again, it's... what's the word?



Any search will introduce a disaster of examples.

Even the idea that both are viable routes to achieving the same thing - a safe and stable society - is absurd. Can they be exchanged as funding priorities? If we at all unpack these notions, we see that the suitcases are just stuffed with wishful, lazy thinking, that enforcement of harsh principles in terms of poor school performance would cut down on the costs of other kinds of enforcement.
The costs of incarcerating such a large segment of our population are spiritual in nature. The arrival of the monetary costs are mere reminders of the travesty.