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Saturday January 10th, 2009
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Things are bad: What do we do about it?
posted 01/10/2009, 1:27 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Commentary]
 Everybody knows things are bad in the world. Everything is not peachy. The problems are innumerable, the economy, our freedoms, our happiness, our quality of life, we are suffering in all aspects of life and though we hope for a better future we feel as though the things which are outside of our control will only get worse. The situation we are in is overwhelming, we feel like there is something we can do but we don't know what to do! Whenever anyone is faced with this overwhelming situation, the question always becomes "what do we do about it?"
Do we run out on the streets? Do we protest and go on strike? People do not really know what to do, they just do nothing or else they go and look for an out to it all. They join some political party or they become religious or they start drinking or taking drugs. They try to make money or work their way out of it, or they try to pleasure their way out of it with food or sex.
There are many different paths people can take, but what they all have in common is this: Avoidance.
When a person says "what do we do about it" they are looking for an out. They want a savior to come and save them from it all, or they want to find some distant world where they escape it all. This is totally normal and perfectly reasonable. There is nothing wrong with people for feeling this way, I am as guilty of it as anyone else and I am not above it.
The problem we are in is not one of our making. Once again: the problem we are in is not one of our making. History is filled with butchery and murder, tyranny and theocratic oppression is the norm. We've all been born into a nightmare and we're just now waking up to how terrifying and all encompassing it all is. We are searching for outs but there are none, we are hoping to one day wake up and find it was all a bad dream. This is why it's not uncommon to hear the question "what do we do about it?"
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Reflections on "Weapons of Mass Instruction"
posted 01/10/2009, 1:27 AM (Old-Thinker News)
[Category: Commentary]
I've been researching the history of our schooling (there's a difference between schooling and true education) system in the United States for a couple of years now and I've found some amazing as well as angering information. I've read all of John Taylor Gatto's books on the subject to help me understand just how it came to be. He is a former New York state teacher of 30 years. He finally quit, saying that he couldn't hurt children anymore. I can't do justice to his way of explaining our school ... (more) |
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