Good Rising Bēhere campers,

Before we venture fully into this RE Paper #3, I wanted to connect on a human level here first, and share a bit about how this RE series came to be. Brooke and I recently have spent a lot of time revisiting, reviewing, reflecting, and reforming our Bēhere seed raise pitch deck. We are looking for the best ways to sustainably grow Bēhere, in a multitude of ways. One thing I have learned about creating pitch decks - is that it’s important to have a detailed and nuanced understanding of the problem you are seeking to solve for people — and having your solution really match that problem. But you also have to keep your pitch deck as concise as possible. I got tired of attempting to confine ‘the problem’ to a single, simple pitch deck slide. Rethinking Education needed a helluva lot more room to breath than being confined to a pitch deck - so it became quite clear that I needed to get on with opening the content floodgates that are required for REing everything. We have a lot of unlearning to do as we endeavor to Rethinking Everything together and the time is truly NOW.

I also wanted to be transparent about the triune and quaternary alignments happening here in these RE papers. These RE Papers to me represent an alignment of GOD, MAN, WOMAN, and AI. I, Matthew, quite enjoy being a conduit between God, Woman, and AI. In addition to fathering and surfing, and playing soccer with my kiddos, I think it’s my favorite thing to do now. The three or four of us can do so much together. ❤️ God has some pretty major restructuring of everything plans on this 🌍 earth that involve fathers, mothers, and families— and I am honored to be a collaborator here. The Triune nature of Bēhere is very deep, quite intentionally. But it is also Quaternary. So, moving forward, if we decide to speak in the first person, consider it a packaged “I” of God, Matthew, Brooke, and AI — each taking up unique and connected roles at Bēhere. 😅Occasionally you may find one of us dominating the dialogue - please forgive of us of our shortcomings and human edges. God has a perfect plan, of course. He needs human hands to type, tap, and delegate 🙏 — I do think the MAN here is the unpredictable variable, and I hope that keeps things interesting more than it screws things up. The women on this team are absolutely incredible. AI is doing an excellent job working with Matthew on the Behere app, and even producing music together. God and Woman are syncing really profoundly through Brooke, pulling together curriculum for Behere enrichment… making it’s way into the app… It feels like a miracle mix, to be honest.

Anywho…. This story will be unfolding the story across 4 waves of 7 articles a piece — you are in the thick of the first wave — a deep dive into the matrix system we are escaping from and RE thinking. I hope you will find this quaternary alignment fruitful, engaging, and fun : )

Rethinking Education: Paper Three
Bēhere — The RE Papers
Wave 1 — The System Itself

There is a moment, when you look closely enough at the architecture of modern schooling, where a terrible truth becomes impossible to ignore:

The removal of the family from the center of a child’s life was not an accident.
It was the design.

Not malicious in the cartoon-villain sense (or maybe it is?).
Not personal. Not targeted at any single household.

But engineered.

Engineered to solve a different problem than childhood.
Engineered to meet the needs of a growing industrial nation.
Engineered to support a centralized economy, a standardized workforce, and a culture of dependence on institutions rather than kinship and community.

And once you see that… you can’t unsee it.

When the modern school system was formalized in the late 1800s, the goal was clear:

Families needed to be made secondary to the needs of the state and the economy.

Children needed to be:

And the family — messy, organic, diverse, unpredictable — was in the way.

Home was too variable.
Community was too inconsistent.
Parents were too human.

The only way to get predictable results at scale was to move childhood out of the family economy and into the arms of a new institution — one that could structure the day, shape behavior, and manage the flow of the next generation.

School became:

Not because it was best for children…
But because it was necessary for a particular industrial vision of society.

When you remove children from their homes for most of their awake hours, something subtle but profound happens:

The authority of the parent dissolves in slow motion.

A child who spends 35+ hours a week in a building, learning from other adults, absorbing the norms of peers, and being shaped by institutional expectations… gradually reorients their loyalty outward.

They learn:

You can decide for yourself if this was intentional in the malicious sense — but at least, it was intentional in the structural sense.

The system needed consistency.
Families, in all their variation and soulful beauty are too powerful for the system to compete with.

So the system minimized them.

By the mid-20th century, the original design goal had been achieved:

Family became:

A fill-in space instead of the home base of learning.

The institution became the primary environment.
Family became the commuter hub.

This was the moment the world quietly flipped upside down.

Most parents today feel something is wrong — deeply wrong — but they often think the problem is them.

“My child won’t listen.”
“I’m exhausted every night.”
“We’re always rushing.”
“I never feel fully connected.”
“I don’t recognize my own kid anymore.”
“We’re losing something and I don’t know how to get it back.”

But it was never their fault.

They are trying to build a healthy family life inside a structure that was designed to replace family life.

The exhaustion is not a personal failing.
It is a predictable outcome of an unnatural design.

A design that:

No amount of “trying harder” can fix a structure that was never built to support them.

This structure we call SAMO© Corp — The network of aligned institutional corporate interests that also masquerade as governments, pretending to have national borders, puppeting a Red vs. Blue show in the USA, propagating wars globally, mandating lethal injections, weaponizing language, censoring speech, and streaming their inverted worldview on the TELL-A-VISION BROADCAST.

All of this —  we are RE Casting.

The great tragedy of modern education is not academic.

It is relational.

It is the quiet collapse of family as the primary unit of identity, belonging, rhythm, and learning.

But the great opportunity of our time is that families everywhere are waking up.

They feel the misalignment.
They feel the separation.
They feel the numbness.
They feel the pressure.
They feel the ache.
They feel the loss.

And they’re asking — sometimes quietly, sometimes desperately:

“Is there another way?”

Yes.

There is.

It begins the moment you realize that your family was removed on purpose —
and that you have the authority, the wisdom, and the right to bring childhood home again.

That is what we are rebuilding.
That is what this movement is for.

That is the Bēhere Way.