A lot here that way too many people won't read. I do believe that seems to be the goal of a lot of leaders in the West. If we can make learning so difficult that we can dumb down our students to a just "tell me what I need to know" we can eliminate the idea of the student needs to be willing to learn other aspects of life. Right now not enough of our students think that way.
This makes the general population easy to manipulate. It actually encourages society to put in their own nose ring and hand the reins to someone else. Since so many leaders think with a dishonest mindset, what are young are doing is strengthening the the hold on these dishonest thinking leaders while their parents have no idea what environment they have placed their child in.
Dishonest thinking leaders rule our important foundational truths. By keeping critical thinking out of the young, the cycle will continue. Those who shouldn't be in power will be blindly given their power by the masses because the masses don't realize just how toxic their environment is. To many in America, where we are is normal and acceptable. Those who wish to control have manipulated these foundational truths our Founding Fathers accepted as normal knowing they can say and do anything and blame those who go against their edicts by claiming critical thinkers are the threat to democracy or "our way of life."
How many leaders today have bemoaned "why do we place so much weight on what a bunch of old dead white guys said 250 years ago. They don't know what is important today," words to that effect. How many in the West believe the foundational beliefs of our leaders today are worthy to follow?
A lot here that way too many people won't read. I do believe that seems to be the goal of a lot of leaders in the West. If we can make learning so difficult that we can dumb down our students to a just "tell me what I need to know" we can eliminate the idea of the student needs to be willing to learn other aspects of life. Right now not enough of our students think that way.
This makes the general population easy to manipulate. It actually encourages society to put in their own nose ring and hand the reins to someone else. Since so many leaders think with a dishonest mindset, what are young are doing is strengthening the the hold on these dishonest thinking leaders while their parents have no idea what environment they have placed their child in.
Dishonest thinking leaders rule our important foundational truths. By keeping critical thinking out of the young, the cycle will continue. Those who shouldn't be in power will be blindly given their power by the masses because the masses don't realize just how toxic their environment is. To many in America, where we are is normal and acceptable. Those who wish to control have manipulated these foundational truths our Founding Fathers accepted as normal knowing they can say and do anything and blame those who go against their edicts by claiming critical thinkers are the threat to democracy or "our way of life."
How many leaders today have bemoaned "why do we place so much weight on what a bunch of old dead white guys said 250 years ago. They don't know what is important today," words to that effect. How many in the West believe the foundational beliefs of our leaders today are worthy to follow?
Matt: Thanks very much for the insightful comments. Appreciated.
David