The Fundamental Issue of Our Time

The Redneck Intellectual ^ | 23 Nov 2021 | C. Bradley Thompson

[Rummyfan]

“For it is correct to take care of the young first, so that they will be the best possible, just as a good farmer properly takes care of the young plants first, and after this of the others as well.”

--Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro

Over the course of the last eighteen months, parents around the country have been showing up to school board meetings to express their concerns about a wide range of topics, including dissatisfaction with COVID-related school closings, remote learning, vaccine and mask mandates, and, most importantly, with the teaching of Critical Race and Gender Theory in the government schools. These school board meetings have been sometimes raucous affairs, where parents have expressed outrage at what is or is not happening in their kids’ schools. School board members have been subjected to withering public criticism and condemnation.

America’s moms and dads are mad as hell, and, apparently, they’re not going to take it anymore. They have risen up to assert their rights as taxpayers and their first amendment rights to assemble and speak their minds. More fundamentally, though, they are also asserting their rights as parents.

In reaction to this spontaneous, grassroots rébellion des parents, America’s Ruling Class has been forced to reveal for the first time its deepest philosophic and political commitments.

[Rummyfan]

We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of “these are our children.” So part of is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.

-- Melissa Harris-Perry

[nascarnation]

Or as a wise management instructor once taught

“when it’s everyone’s responsibility, it’s no one’s responsibility”

[EasySt]

https://fix2020first.com/

[Rummyfan]

“when it’s everyone’s responsibility, it’s no one’s responsibility”

Yes. And it's the same as the 'it takes a village mantra. As if we should be taking advice from African tribes on how to raise our children.