On 07/18/2017 10:34 AM, John Newman wrote:
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>> On Jul 18, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Marina Brown <catskillmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 07/17/2017 05:38 AM, John Young wrote:
>>> Education is affirmation of the status quo in all nations.
>>> And a negation of otherness. Military, spies and secrecy,
>>> blessed by national security blind faith, assures heads in
>>> the sand are patriotic, and raising heads out of the sand
>>> is treason ("terrorism").
>>>
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>> <sarcasm>I am sure that people would function in society better with no
>> education whatsoever. they would be free to reinvent the wheel,
>> mathematics, chemistry and history with no reference to the past.
>> Imagine what people would come up with !</sarcasm>
>>
>> Yes, there is an element of conformity in education but there is some
>> exposure to thought that is counter to the status quo. I know you are
>> not uneducated but i am getting tired of people - even left wing
>> millenials saying that education has no value.
>>
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> Growing up in texas we were taught in high school that the civil war was NOT
> about slavery - it was about states' rights!
>
> I heard a story on NPR the other day about public schools in, I think it was
> Oklahoma, about how the fucking textbooks and curriculum are written by the
> petroleum industry. All the science and math classes try to teach everything
> within the context of petroleum, as much as possible. For all i know you have
> to read Oil! (or watch the excellent There Will Be Blood) to pass the goddamn
> english class.
>
> Anyway, i do agree that education is paramount... but how we prevent a
> dystopia Jesusland / east coast / west coast split in schools, and how to
> make sure kids get a valuable education?
> I don't know. My parents were all educators - including father and stepfather. They fought all their lives against the devaluation of education even at the college level. I guess we have to keep up the fight against the propagandization and devaluation of education. It's been a long term project of authoritarians to create education that is akin to technical training without people learning how to think for themselves. We have to be ready for a long fight too. --- Marina > > >>> Lopping heads by cutlass or curricula or UAVs, or as here, >>> stuffing them with incessant propaganda of URLism, is why >>> good soldiers and best-and-brightest make conjoined heads >>> PR, aka comical faux wisdom. >>> >>> Spies may be the most stupid people on earth, totally isolated >>> by trained, indoctrinated terror of otherness, aka brain-laundered. >>> >>> >>> >>> At 09:27 PM 7/16/2017, you wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:24:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>>>> This classic interview with an ex-KGB officer shall forever go down >>>>> in history as oh so poignant: >>>>> >>>>> Ex-KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov Explains United States Targeted Public >>>>> Schools for Change >>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obr1XqUPEII >>>>> (17 minutes) >>>> >>>> >>>> Here's the full version of Yuri's interview - for those who have a >>>> heart, the truth presented is both unmistakably true, and deeply >>>> saddening: >>>> >>>> >>>> Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation >>>> (Full Length) >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0 >>>> (81 minutes, 11 seconds) >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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