Devoid Tuesday, August 30, 2005: The inequities in our schooling system are atrocious. How can we expect our children to grow up and make rational calculated decisions when schools d not teach them to think this way. Public schools only cram facts into the brains of students, with no clues as to how to apply those facts, and analyze the broader reaching implications. That's great, you know when the declaration of independence was signed, and who signed it, and maybe even why. But are you able able to understand what these types of events really signify? To understand the deeper implications: economic, social, political, familial, personal, and global. Without the ability to search for these answers, to prod the implications of facts they are useless. To reiterate, facts are uesless without an understand of how to use them. When quoted facts are meaningless, without a shared understanding of them. Perhaps I would understand the implications of some facts I could state, but would you? Public schools merely serve as a refinery for the social machine, placing students in their social and economic place. You live in a poor nieghborhood, go to an underfunded school, and merely attend so you can visit with your friends and perhaps because somewhere deep inside you hope that an education will benefit you. But in all fairness, even the best education might not benefit some students, if they know it won't. Though this might seem like a self fulfilling prophecy, it is a symptom of out class society. Why should I go to school, why should I want to learn; education cannot imporove my situation. Perhaps if this feeling were addressed directly among students, their self-imposed failure and disinterest might vanish like smoke in the wind. But to do this, social and econmic inequities would have to be done away with - something no society in the long history of modern societies has been able to achieve. In fact, as time marches on this goal seems to get further and further away. Communism, a practical failure. Democratic republicanism, a slow, but inevitably practical failure (my personal assumption anyways). A society once established tends to homogenize, seperating "the strong from the weak" as a social darwinist might say. However, this is not fact, or even well proven theory as darwinism is. It is merely a symptom of our acceptance of it. A berrier we cannot see, and thus cannot breach. What's worse, how can it ever be if we continue to feed our society with a pre-class-sorted population, thanks to public schooling. A society that will accept the unjustifiable because it has been wrongly justified by some authority figure. Were they not taught this behavior by their teachers, and their parents? This is the logical conslusion, "Sit down, shut up, stare off into space while I spew facts at you hoping you will remember them, regardless of whether or not you are capable of integrating them into your ideology without understanding them." So when the president says, "let's make war on the guilty" who would question the guilty party? Perhaps those that disagree for purely partisan reasons, but in the long run they are not the true objectors. They will mask their partisanship with pleas of love, honor, and justice. They are merely those who are disgruntled because it was not their war to wage - an egoistic assumption that they are more deserving of the power to make such decisions. No, they are not, they are no better. In reality it is their agendas they morun, and not the souls of the dead, who return in body bags, or worse, rot in the streets or in shoddy graves. When is war ever justifiable? Because an authority figure makes it so, they will morality into existence with their arbitray policies. Making it sanctioned to murder, rape, pillage, and destroy - because, the craftiest of them, can put a face on the enemy, and fear in the hearts of their people. This makes them skilled at deception, but it gives them no authority - that is not unless you give it to them freely in hopes that they will protect you from the unseen forces that haunt your nightmares. Yes, the terrorists are coming, and their goal? It is simple, and built into their very name: produce terror. What happens if they are unable to do so? What happens if they are met with a rational society who is not swayed by the fear of mortality and loss of their "way of life (AKA material posessions and comfort)"? Terrorism fails before it can begin to suceed. What happens if they face a foe who will readily surrender the freedom they so adamantly claim to idolize, in exchange for the false sense of security behind bombs and briggands? Assuming this society has the means, any pirate politician in office will be able to concinve the population, on false pretenses, to surrender their freedom, and even their lives, in the name of the freedom to live. And to what use will he put this willing exchange to use? The amazing power the pirate weilds like a firey sword can be used to accomplish whatever goal he might wish (must pirates lust aftery the finery that they can successfully pry from the unwilling hands of the dead). I'm sorry for that digression, but it was necessary and pertinent to the topic. Because it has a sollution. Knowledge is power; the knowledge that is deprived of the population. The knowledge that an inequitable educational system cannot empart to anyone. The ability to see past myth to fact. And the ability to use reason, and rationality to overcome the forces that are all begging to decieve us. I feel like I could write more on this topic, but I fear I may digress more, and henceforth into endless circles. My point made, I can only hope that it is recieved. And that the thirst for knowledge can be imparted onto the seething masses of those who fail to realize that knowledge is their most powerful weapon against terrorists within and without. Chris // 8/30/2005 ______________________ Comments: Post a Comment
The inequities in our schooling system are atrocious. How can we expect our children to grow up and make rational calculated decisions when schools d not teach them to think this way. Public schools only cram facts into the brains of students, with no clues as to how to apply those facts, and analyze the broader reaching implications. That's great, you know when the declaration of independence was signed, and who signed it, and maybe even why. But are you able able to understand what these types of events really signify? To understand the deeper implications: economic, social, political, familial, personal, and global. Without the ability to search for these answers, to prod the implications of facts they are useless. To reiterate, facts are uesless without an understand of how to use them. When quoted facts are meaningless, without a shared understanding of them. Perhaps I would understand the implications of some facts I could state, but would you? Public schools merely serve as a refinery for the social machine, placing students in their social and economic place. You live in a poor nieghborhood, go to an underfunded school, and merely attend so you can visit with your friends and perhaps because somewhere deep inside you hope that an education will benefit you. But in all fairness, even the best education might not benefit some students, if they know it won't. Though this might seem like a self fulfilling prophecy, it is a symptom of out class society. Why should I go to school, why should I want to learn; education cannot imporove my situation. Perhaps if this feeling were addressed directly among students, their self-imposed failure and disinterest might vanish like smoke in the wind. But to do this, social and econmic inequities would have to be done away with - something no society in the long history of modern societies has been able to achieve. In fact, as time marches on this goal seems to get further and further away. Communism, a practical failure. Democratic republicanism, a slow, but inevitably practical failure (my personal assumption anyways). A society once established tends to homogenize, seperating "the strong from the weak" as a social darwinist might say. However, this is not fact, or even well proven theory as darwinism is. It is merely a symptom of our acceptance of it. A berrier we cannot see, and thus cannot breach. What's worse, how can it ever be if we continue to feed our society with a pre-class-sorted population, thanks to public schooling. A society that will accept the unjustifiable because it has been wrongly justified by some authority figure. Were they not taught this behavior by their teachers, and their parents? This is the logical conslusion, "Sit down, shut up, stare off into space while I spew facts at you hoping you will remember them, regardless of whether or not you are capable of integrating them into your ideology without understanding them." So when the president says, "let's make war on the guilty" who would question the guilty party? Perhaps those that disagree for purely partisan reasons, but in the long run they are not the true objectors. They will mask their partisanship with pleas of love, honor, and justice. They are merely those who are disgruntled because it was not their war to wage - an egoistic assumption that they are more deserving of the power to make such decisions. No, they are not, they are no better. In reality it is their agendas they morun, and not the souls of the dead, who return in body bags, or worse, rot in the streets or in shoddy graves. When is war ever justifiable? Because an authority figure makes it so, they will morality into existence with their arbitray policies. Making it sanctioned to murder, rape, pillage, and destroy - because, the craftiest of them, can put a face on the enemy, and fear in the hearts of their people. This makes them skilled at deception, but it gives them no authority - that is not unless you give it to them freely in hopes that they will protect you from the unseen forces that haunt your nightmares. Yes, the terrorists are coming, and their goal? It is simple, and built into their very name: produce terror. What happens if they are unable to do so? What happens if they are met with a rational society who is not swayed by the fear of mortality and loss of their "way of life (AKA material posessions and comfort)"? Terrorism fails before it can begin to suceed. What happens if they face a foe who will readily surrender the freedom they so adamantly claim to idolize, in exchange for the false sense of security behind bombs and briggands? Assuming this society has the means, any pirate politician in office will be able to concinve the population, on false pretenses, to surrender their freedom, and even their lives, in the name of the freedom to live. And to what use will he put this willing exchange to use? The amazing power the pirate weilds like a firey sword can be used to accomplish whatever goal he might wish (must pirates lust aftery the finery that they can successfully pry from the unwilling hands of the dead). I'm sorry for that digression, but it was necessary and pertinent to the topic. Because it has a sollution. Knowledge is power; the knowledge that is deprived of the population. The knowledge that an inequitable educational system cannot empart to anyone. The ability to see past myth to fact. And the ability to use reason, and rationality to overcome the forces that are all begging to decieve us. I feel like I could write more on this topic, but I fear I may digress more, and henceforth into endless circles. My point made, I can only hope that it is recieved. And that the thirst for knowledge can be imparted onto the seething masses of those who fail to realize that knowledge is their most powerful weapon against terrorists within and without. Chris // 8/30/2005
