Well said. Your comments about the demoralization of youth remind me of Ivan Illich's observation: "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is ... Schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent ... Children become a natural resource to be molded by the schools and fed into the industrial machine."
In other words, regardless of what any individual teacher may intend to convey, all institutional schools indoctrinate children into becoming institutionalized adults. Once that is accomplished, the likelihood of a person awakening to the reality of the corporate state and the interests of its governing class are slim.
Well said. Your comments about the demoralization of youth remind me of Ivan Illich's observation: "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is ... Schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent ... Children become a natural resource to be molded by the schools and fed into the industrial machine."
In other words, regardless of what any individual teacher may intend to convey, all institutional schools indoctrinate children into becoming institutionalized adults. Once that is accomplished, the likelihood of a person awakening to the reality of the corporate state and the interests of its governing class are slim.
As a parent there’s a part of you that wants this “ability to conform” for your child, even as you watch them lose the light.
One of your best, Nicholas.
This was especially poignant: "21st century mean girls and their male equivalents now run the front of house in the western world."
Question is, where does it go from here?
Anyone noticed the pollsters taking the week off? I have. EVERYTHING is a lie. Except Trump.
There’s no magic spell to make the horror disappear, it will have to be vanquished, and that can never be painless. This is the part where you pray."
And speak the hell up!
Oh. That too.