Emergency Entertainment brings urgent attention to the violence and failure of the American education system. It's easy to take the successes and flaws of this institution for granted. After all, every social system has room for improvement. Progress takes time, and school plays a central role in our socialization, and in our preparedness to navigate and confront the insidious neoliberal economic system in which we're enmeshed. The exploitation, pressure, and inequity that exists in American education is normalized because commercial enterprise has already perverted the rest of our institutions to a degree where apathy and learned helplessness have become unconscious mass coping strategies. When teachers and parents lecture young people about how school prepares you for the "real world" they usually mean the so-called "free market" economy that dominates Earth. But don't let the marvels of industrial civilization fool you: this is a feeble, collapsing system of planetary human organization that relies on acts of terrorism, often legitimized by state sponsorship, to maintain its hegemony. While education cannot be entirely disentangled from the influence of this decaying-yet-prevailing mode of existence, it can challenge it with an ambitious experiment in liberation of the human spirit through a radically transdisciplinary approach to art education.