"Welcome to the World State, where “all men are physico-chemically equal” and “everybody’s happy now.” People are conditioned by genetic engineering, electric shocks, and hypnopaedic repetition to accept these and other mantras as the sum of their identities, to promote complacency and simple desires. Sexually, people are uniformly promiscuous—“everyone belongs to everyone else”—avoiding those neuroses rooted in repression or exclusive attachments. Erotic experimentation begins at six or eight years old. Economically, the society has subscribed so thoroughly to mass consumerism that the consumers themselves have been commodified. “Taught to acquire an infinity of gimcrack objects,” as one early reviewer said, they spend their labor mindlessly producing the things that in their leisure they mindlessly consume. And, as one character explains, “if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.” A dream drug without side effects, soma assuages every hurt or unmet need, from boredom to impotence to insecurity to chagrin, and all other “miseries of space and time.”... Aldous Huxley, Brave new World.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world is a more true statement than he who dies with the most toys wins. They made the latter popular because they realized they needed the former to create their socialist changes.
My kids do attend public schools. I do not make enough money to have the privilege of private education, and I have to work so homeschooling is not an option. That said, I did not allow them to become indoctrinated with the liberal garbage they spew. Both my sons are activists in the sense that they engage and win arguments and debates in the classroom about the very things we speak about on Freerepublic, especially my older son, who has been in honors courses most of his life. There is much more latitude in these classes for discussion on morality, values, and politics.
While my son was one of only 3 in his total classes who supported McCain in the election, he shredded all takers who would try and support Obama, and at the very least pointed out to the class that racism is alive and well when supporting a man of color because of color and not on positions and issues is how you decide to vote. When he got a real pain in the neck, I gave him a line he loved that I learned on here; I voted against his white half LOL. (it is quite a racially mixed school btw)
If you have done your job as a parent, they can survive and even thrive in public school. Mine constantly point out error and contradiction in their lessons and drive their teachers nuts :) . I feel that by them being there, they are getting real world lessons in how people think, and they won’t be shocked when they get into the real world and people are so different than them. It is also just about the only real world experience my older son is going to have with this kind of people on a daily basis, as he enters seminary in 2010.
These daily walks he takes helps him to see the evil he will be fighting, and how these people tick. While its not for everyone, and you must challenge everything that goes on, they are the salt and the light in the public school system, and they do cause some to think.......
Huxley, Orwell, Rand... They were modern-day prophets.