Posted on 06/20/2022 4:42:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What is the antidote to "wokeism"? Knowledge. How do ordinary people resist the growing tyranny of State power? By questioning everything they're told. How can people being controlled fight back? By remembering that they alone control their thoughts.
You knew these answers without my help. Variations of them are entwined with our cherished cultural beliefs. Knowledge is power. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. The truth will set you free. In the past, perhaps, these idioms were too often seen as nothing more than inspirational bromides one might find embroidered on a decorative bookmark. Now their gospel truths are strikingly clear. Stupidity breeds weakness. Obedience kills critical thinking. Ignorance invites enslavement. Wisdom ameliorates suffering. Imagine how much stronger America would be today if America's children understood these vital lessons.
That last point gets to the nub of it, does it not? The Educational Establishment, much like the Political Establishment, is not vested in helping young minds grow. It is interested in placing children in small, windowless boxes and slapping them back should their curiosity dare to poke an occasional hole exposing the illuminated world of knowledge just beyond their grasp. It is committed to preventing young minds from ever acquiring the essential tools necessary for unlocking limitless potential. It seeks good "woke" soldiers, not true thinkers. Thinking is dangerous to any system of control. Asking "why?" is the dirtiest of words in a system dependent upon intellectual conformity. Indoctrination, not enlightenment, is the game today. Those desperate to drink unquenchably from the cup of knowledge must sate their thirst away from the prying eyes of government-controlled institutions, where wrongthink is punished and groupthink is praised.
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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984
I salute you!
When it comes to school, there’s no place like home.
We homeschooled 9 of our kids, 6 of them through high school. The youngest three went to high school in a Christian Academy.
Make the sacrifices. They’re your kids, but their our future.
> They’re your kids, but their our future.
They’re your kids, but THEY’RE our future.
I can’t believe I did that.
Vouchers, and stop the big box factory union run public school monopoly.
Charter schools raised by families, churches, and homeschooling associations. But you have to elect leaders that will undo state certification of teachers and curriculum. It has to be done at the county level.
If you have children, seek classical school and make sure they do not accept vouchers. If you can’t find one, find like minded parents and start one. Public and many private schools are too far gone to be reformed.
Its actually simple matter. All you have to do is change the current reigning paradigm in the universities. the current ruling paradigm is atheist materialism. that everything comes from matter and energy.
Yet all the work of the last century by atheist materialist scientists have show the exact opposite.
A good book out on this is entitle “Is Atheism Dead.” by Eric Metaxas.
Basically what’s called for in academic terms—is a paradigm shift.
H. O. M. E. S. C. H. O. O. L!
All kids get indoctrinated. That’s a fact. It’s how we raise them.
It’s important to indoctrinate them into anti-communism before the left gets to them. And Patriotism.
THAT is a great book “Is Atheism Dead”
Not just great.
It points out the reasons that paradigmn shift is called for.
I think Charlie Kirk just started a new type of school. Don’t know if they are under Turning Point or some other Kirk organization.
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