The not-so-subtle purpose of compulsory schooling is to ensure a populace subservient to the status quo which primarily serves the ruling class. What we call education is derived from a Prussian model designed to reward individuals based on how well they stay in line and do as they’re told through the process of grading.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
Det är ett problem att människor tänker för lite. Vi fattar viktiga beslut utan att tänka efter. Vilket kanske inte är så konstigt. Det är helt enkelt bekvämast så.Man skall vara snäll mot andra. Vänstern säger att den är snäll. Och så glider människor in i en vänsteridentitet som med tiden förstärks genom kognitiv bias. Sedan röstar de därefter. Vilket kan sluta i en stat som är allt annat än snäll mot människor.Kärnkraftvek exploderar.
Writing TV commercials was fun but retirement would be heaven. I could do whatever I pleased. I’d get to spend weekday afternoons at Yankee Stadium with the sun shining down on the boys of summer.
Then a new world appeared out of the green. I invested my profit-sharing in the stock market. I discovered that newspapers had business pages as well as sports pages. I puzzled over terms I’d never seen before (such as basis prices, which I’ll return to). Looking back I realize this was just the start of an endless tax education.
For a half century, I’ve been of the opinion that there is just one social issue of real importance. Until we put an end to state warfare, or mass-murder for corporate profit, all other causes are meaningless. Recently I’ve come to the conclusion that the age of bombing for dollars has nearly come to an end. The fighter jets from nearby Davis-Monthan AFB no longer rip the silent skies asunder, practice-strafing the city of Tucson, replaced instead by what appear to be slow moving surveillance aircraft. The long protracted age of war is done. Great cause for celebration, no? Unfortunat
I am a white person. I am also male. Some people would immediately dismiss my opinion on that basis, but they would be wrong to because prejudice is wrong. Like all decent people, I am appalled by racism and prejudice in general, but I see the behaviour and reactions of many people (although well-intentioned rage) causing more division, not easing the problem. In fact, they are only fanning the flames of conflict.
Pulling down statues may make us feel good but will not eliminate the root causes of racism and discrimination.
Part Two – Part 1 here.
The protests to the cruel killing of George Floyd and many others before him and even some after him have not remained confined to the United States or among black people alone, but have given rise to a global movement for change and an end to racism and discrimination.
Imagine, you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but, in fact, your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, Illuminati, or simply the Beast, or anything else obscure or untraceable, it doesn’t matter. They are less than the 0.0001%.
It would be far better and far more democratic if laws are decided by legislative juries rather than by elected politicians.
