Exactly what is being taught in our schools anyway? Which person, the one who sees capitalism as an opportunity to improve his/her lot, or the one that sees capitalism as abhorrent, is the more likely to prosper economically?
This is why the conservative world-view, based upon small government, opportunity and the ability to make your own way will be a very hard sell to those who have a world-view that the system is rigged against them. The chances to recover from this are as you say, based upon some catastrophic change in the world that forces the person to question their foundational beliefs. This may happen, but is not a guarantee that the world-view of the capitalist will be the direction chosen by the person that has their world rocked.
Christianity is one of the few changes that can happen without someone’s world being turned upside down, although often this is the impetus that it takes.
We are so screwed.
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Thanks,
I think there is something in all people,call it human nature, to want to learn, explore and seek truth or at least greater understanding. I know that many people seem to suppress this since I can’t imagine it is not in them. Your are very right to point to our education system and “how” they teach, which shifted in the mid part of the last century. The shift to so called “progressive education” can be traced to John Dewey. Dewey and his crowd were the early adherents to “Humanism” which had ties to current and former Eugenicists.
In my own experience, since accepting Christ, my passion for learning and quest for the truth has grown exponentially. This has not simply been a function of stuffing my head with facts, it’s been to gain a deep understand of both why some are either for a against God, and what are the foundations for their beliefs.
Capitalism is the expression of freedom and liberty that resides in all men. To be convinced otherwise, is to deny the nature of man and oneself.