The brainwashing of an American teen

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 24, 2004 | Kyle Williams

[JohnHuang2]

The brainwashing of an American teen

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Posted: January 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

After over two years of writing commentary on politics and culture, I have concluded that I am wrong in everything. Just as I failed the public school system, I have failed the world.

What helped me realize my complete incompetence was an e-mail I received. Right between a letter explaining my bigotry and one government school teacher informing me of my arrogance, column reader Greg put in plain words what my problem is: My outlook is based on what my parents think.

I wish someone had enlightened me sooner, but I suppose I am simply a slow learner. Though I have received these comments for years, I am just now beginning to see some very serious flaws in myself that no longer make me eligible for freedom of speech.

First and foremost, I really have no idea what's going on outside my own little world here in rural Oklahoma. Many readers have noted the location of my existence and tell me I simply do not have any exposure to the outside world. They are right; it's a day's ride on horseback to any other family and it takes untold amounts of time to get outside the state on a wagon – I rarely see anyone outside my family.

Secondly, I am brainwashed. Please forgive me, but it is rather difficult to escape the mind-control techniques used by my parents. It's a hard confession to make, but none of the opinions espoused in this column were my own. I freely admit now that I was regurgitating the ideas of mother and father.

From an early age, they required my sister, brother and I to memorize phrases promoting the conservative ideology. That's right; I am here to expose the grotesque practice of conservatives indoctrinating their children.

Third, I am simply too young. Column reader Dawn explains, "My son is 15, and there are certain situations where he is not allowed to criticize others, even though he may be right."

Again, this is another case of my parents using me as a pawn, thinking for me. I now know my proper role in life: I should only speak when spoken to. Although my slow learning is probably a result of homeschooling, I am beginning to see my relevance in culture: Children should be seen and not heard.

Lastly, now that I am free from the oppression of overbearing, right-wing parents, I know that I shouldn't have an opinion. Maybe when I am an old man, I will have the life experience needed to express a sound idea on politics and culture.

Until I become ancient, I will begin to party, to "live life to the fullest," as they say. One reader says, "The kid just needs to get to college, join a frat and get hazed for a semester."

Thanks to these words of wisdom, that's what I plan on doing. First, I will enroll in a party college. After wasting myself nearly to the point of death, my fraternity days will be bliss. Although the hazing may be difficult, I know it will help me see the world using rational thinking.

Next, I will party in college for a few years and then fail all my classes – because that's the cool thing to do. Hopefully, after the college social experience, I can begin to father children born out of wedlock. Although this will be a financial burden, I plan to find a part-time job and spend the rest of my days writing and espousing views based on a worldly experience.

I know you wish you had it all planned out like I do. I can only thank the concerned readers of this column who warned me of my isolation, indoctrination and proper role in society.

The only thing I regret is wasting all my time on the so-called "successful" accomplishments of writing a weekly column, a book and appearing on national talk shows.

We all make mistakes.

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[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Quote of the Day by CurlyBill

[billorites]

[whd23]

I have no idea what that picture has to do with this article....

...and I'm just fine with that

[Salgak]

It's from the "Britney Spears Teaches Physics" spoof page. . .

[HankReardon]

I bet many more young Americans do not survive their college party years on a yearly basis than are killed in Iraq. "I'm young, I deserve to party",it's often a deadly way of thinking. Young people have to discount their parents' conservative values to justify this. For liberals there is only one sin left, that is judgementalism. They'll think that way until the come home to a ramsacked, burglarized home or are mugged.

[alloysteel]

If my children had gotten their opinions from me, they would not all be defenders of the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office,1993-2001" and militant Bush-bashers. Not that I try to talk them out of their one-sided vision (hopeless task, and largely counterproductive), but someday they will turn fifty, and look back on their misspent youths....

[NetValue]

The article is totally egotistical.

[HankReardon]

You cannot demonstrate to your children how Clinton is a decades long career criminal and president Bush has guided this nation through the problems left to him by this "man"? Such as the Clinton recession, the decimated intelligence agencies that allowed the 9-11 attacks, the corporate scandals that were able to end only after Clinton left office and on and on...

[wgeorge2001]

Is Kyle really a teen or is he a man who knows much about the dangers of facism from brainwashed children in public schools and colleges.

[FourPeas]

For liberals there is only one sin left, that is judgementalism.

Yup.

[alloysteel]

I suppose I could tie them to a chair and use a stun gun on them each time they gave a "wrong" answer. But I really, really want them to reason through on their own to the conclusion that hey, maybe the old man wasn't so far off after all... Nobody concludes their education at eighteen or twenty-three or even forty. It is an ongoing process that never stops. I plan on continuing my own until at least the year 2080.

[HankReardon]

You gotta be kidding me! There is no middle ground between the stun gun and allowing them to be misled by propaganda? I bet Goebbels loved German parents like you.

[alloysteel]

I did not ever do that, I would not ever do that, nor would I recommend that to anyone. What I am saying, and what I really meant, is that becoming overly obsessive about converting someone to your point of view, by anything more than gentle persuasion and example, only makes the other person defensive and resistant.

Something on the order of "horse whispering" to domesticate a feral horse.

[HankReardon]

The liberal propaganda is NOT just another harmless, honest point of view. It's you against the teachers at the government propaganda mills they call schools.

[Lil'freeper]

I am beginning to see my relevance in culture: Children should be seen and not heard.

Having dealt with many mass-schooled teens, this is probably good advice.

'Cuz, like, kids, you know, they're all like "Omigaaaawd, adults are, like, so stupid and all that, and, like, they don't respect us and crap? I mean, uuuhh like, we've got opinions, too and stuff? Like, just give me $50 already and, like, you know, die?" Like yeah.'

[HankReardon]

Being their parents, I am sure you would be able to tell them that before they were born that they were just as deserving of life and protection as they are today. To believe any of the liberal leftism they have to begin there by believing baby killing is simply a matter of choice, as in "Should we get another phone line"? or "What shall we have for dinner" or "I wonder if I should kill my child". A woman here in Ohio just did 7 years for killing her new born, she chose, why was she punished?

[gobucks]

What a great post. This kid is flat out funny. I fear, however, he's going to simply motivate the gov't re-education camp types even more....

"Hey Kyle, shhhhhhhhh....we're working to get on YOUR side of the fence. We need to be a little less, ahem, motivational to the enemy".

Here's what I wish: that Kyle's PARENTS write a book - "How we raised Kyle" with the subtitle, "You, too, can have a son like him!"

[aberaussie]

I don't really understand some of the responses to this article....it's satire...by a homeschooler. Homeschoolers are more likely than traditionally schooled teens to accept the values and political persuasions of their parents. That is because they are together so much, not because they are browbeaten into submission. They don't get to listen to teachers (and peers) tell them that their parents are out of touch and old fashioned and that they need to make their own decisions and do "what is right for them." Yes, he might be a little full of himself, but what fifteen year old isn't? He is writing editorials for a national audience at fifteen years old, for pete's sake. And he understands satire!

[Physicist]

I don't really understand some of the responses to this article....

The issue is that most people are tone-deaf to irony. They can't read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" without "<irony></irony>" and "<sarcasm></sarcasm>" tags inserted.

[HankReardon]

Some know real young people like this and sadly are able to apply this artcle to reality.