[Tammy8]

Isn’t compulsive denial of reality a marker of severe mental illness? How did we allow such people to gain so much power?

[Ohioan]

Western educational systems for the past two generations have largely reflected the fantasies involved. That is where the whole idiocy of what we have been told is "politically correct" comes in. It is he mechanism by which dissent against the faux idealism is suppressed. Most teachers, even those who really know better, keep their mouths shut, if they do not agree with the social goals being promoted by the activists in the system.

What is really also tragic in all of this, is that the make believe notions of human interchangeability & the imagined magical effects of engineering artificial social environment, etc.; the fantasies work to the disadvantage of everyone. You cannot solve the problems of anyone by ignoring the real roots of anyone's problems. And this is how they approach almost all of the dynamics of human interaction.