To conservatism_IS_compassion [without clogging ping]
[Back to the FEC ...]
“So the FEC is illegitimate, and should be disbanded. Similarly, any thought of a “Fairness Doctrine” runs into the same objection, and the FCC should be defanged and made politically agnostic.”
Your concern is on-target.
In the long run, infringement of free speech could turn us into a Stalinist regime. That was one of Stalin’s most powerful weapons. Unapproved speech was his favorite justification for punishing people. He was fanatical about it. So it is a good thing that people remain vigilant guardians of free speech.
[Let’s pray we are vigilant enough.]
And our problem is more fundamentally rooted — education.
It is reverence of professors that perverts the ‘journalism commune’ as well as legislators, judges, school teachers, clergy, and even scientists.
Imagine that. All of those fields are indoctrinated and retooled into cogs of the ‘indoctrination-machine’.
The indirect impact professors have on voters is nearly impossible to over-estimate. I’m not even certain if the demons of hell do more harm to our nation.
[Although Lucifer’s minions were undoubtedly the perpetrators early-on.]
We are up against a ticking clock. This counterrevolution is doomed without some mechanism to confront higher educational icons.
[I go on about how we can revolutionize our education study with ‘history studies’ as an example.]
Counterrevolution and Futuristic Education
We must elevate logic and truth above the assumed grandeur of professors. And I can’t think of a gentler way of doing that than mandatory debates, just one every two months per professor at most.
As for those few shining exceptions [such as Walter Williams or Hillsdale] those are professors who deserve a chance to prove their superior logic and mastery of truth.
I am fully confident that [if there is no moderator and if there is fair time] Williams and Hillsdale would make mincemeat of their critics in debate and be happy to do so.
Why would any worthy professor object to this unless it is based on an irrational idealism? Some notion keeping the ministers of perversity safe in their ivory towers.
But that’s just a basic education reform idea.
Technology of today already makes traditional education obscolete.
I would be in enthusiastic support for a constitutional amendment that makes ‘school choice’ easier in states too. But first, please take a glimpse at what the future might hold ....
What about ‘online history education’ ideas that could allow parents to choose from traditional religious perspectives or from any ‘state government’ perspective — a ‘pro choice’ history education plan [essentially zero-cost] that offers parents well over fifty choices [one from every state and one from every traditional religion].
Children would actually be interested in lively history studies again. And religions would be free to express their viewpoints about how religion affects society because there would be no established religion. The ‘separation of church and state’ argument would also be obsolete in EVERY respect.
In fact, religions and states would compete to make their students the most engrossed in history and thereby superior scholars [which attracts parents to choose them].
When interactive software turns that ‘study’ into a game at the same time, the ‘test’ is a game. Then history studies reach ‘critical mass’. Beyond that education plateua, we are talking about ‘way-out’ futuristic tech.
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So now to ponder the next chess move for colleges and even private schools. They would try to ‘herd’ parents into choosing leftist history studies.
Not to fear. Once we’ve gotten this far, it would be easy to overcome that desperate move. We’d be on the verge of ‘checkmate’ by then.
For example ...
If a student has a high vocabulary, is literate enough to recognize a certain number of three-sylable words, and good at math — that is all that is needed is for that student to crack open a history text book.
And frankly, that is growing obsolete as well. Unless someone plans on being a historian, much of history is already taught better through videos. Pearl Harbor, for example. Saving Private Ryan for D-Day. The list is endless.
And that technology keeps getting more affordable with ‘green screen’ and even more futuristic technology such as ‘interactive software’ [better known as ‘computer games’ — more brain stimulation than either reading or watching movies].
Soon most college courses will also be obsolete.
Boys are more prone to be engrossed by ‘rough-and-tumble’ matches of quick wits while girls like to nurture and create things with less intensity. Both kinds of interactive software are already educating children at an amazing rate [especially the ‘girl’ kind at the moment]. Within ten years, imagine how far ahead that software could be!
As soon as states can manage their own ‘education affairs’ without federal interference [especially the judiciary], the more they can catch up with education innovations.
And that is one of many ways that the Chief State Executive can help — he or she can request meddlesome federal education be repealed, just the ‘mop’, no paint brush...
... and can veto new federal educational power-grabs [just the ‘mop’ once again]...
... and can ‘mop’ up court opinions through ‘tainting’ suggestions that state legislators deliberate. [Still no ‘tyranny-paint-brush.]
And the Chief can mandate debates so that futuristic education experts can explain how government interferes with their ideas. [Penetration of the ivory towers.]
Thus, the states can fill the power vacuum and compete with each other to see who best improves education.
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Education End-Game
So long as the kid is literate, has a decent vocabulary, and has basic math and science skills, education would ideally be deregulated as much as possible. But our nation is so indoctrinated that we will need a revolution of debate before people wake up enough to better understand the value of freedom.