“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

SWANK Dispatch: The Curriculum Was Moldy Before the Cafeteria Was

SWANK Dispatch: The Curriculum Was Moldy Before the Cafeteria Was

Why Fungus Isn’t Just in the Walls—It’s in the Lesson Plans

Filed Under: Cognitive Decay / Institutional Mold / Educational Parasites


Everyone’s worried about mold in the ceilings.

But no one’s talking about the mold in the pedagogy.

Because truthfully—

the curriculum was fungal before the food even hit the tray.


What Is a Moldy Curriculum?

It’s a syllabus designed to:

  1. Recycle dead ideas
  2. Breed obedience
  3. Suppress movement
  4. Invert logic
  5. Reward decay disguised as “order”

It grows in the same pattern fungus does:

Slow. Hidden. Patterned. Repetitive.

Draining the host while pretending to nourish it.


Signs of Fungal Learning Design:

1. It loops, not leaps.

  1. Memorize → test → forget
  2. Repeat standards with new phrasing
  3. Reward students who regurgitate, not synthesize

Fungal logic loves loops. So does curriculum built to indoctrinate, not liberate.


2. It resists light.

  1. No philosophy
  2. No critical theory
  3. No emotional literacy
  4. No questions that lead to deconstruction

Only “acceptable” information is permitted—like fungus under floorboards that dies in sunlight.


3. It punishes movement.

  1. Sit still. Stay quiet.
  2. Recess removed.
  3. Physicality treated as defiance.

Fungus thrives in stillness.

So do bureaucracies.


4. It feeds on processed content.

  1. Test prep packets
  2. PowerPoints
  3. Worksheets
  4. Digitized compliance platforms

No enzymes. No freshness. No vitality. Just pre-chewed, mycotoxic information.


5. It suppresses intuition.

  1. Creativity labeled as distraction
  2. Gut feeling pathologized
  3. Spiritual inquiry omitted entirely

Fungal systems don’t want sovereign beings.

They want damp, tired, polite children who confuse performance with purpose.


Why This Matters:

If your child is in a moldy school, eating moldy food, in a moldy room—

and being taught moldy curriculum?

That’s not education. That’s myco-indoctrination.

They are not learning.

They are hosting.


The Future of Learning Is Anti-Fungal

It is:

  1. Sunlit
  2. Question-based
  3. Physically alive
  4. Biome-supportive
  5. Spirit-honoring
  6. Terrain-aware


Clean the buildings. Feed them real food.

But for the love of consciousness—burn the curriculum first.

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