Not in post 12 he’s not. He’s explaining to anyone who’ll listen how it is progressives get children to accept something that is not in their interest, almost free of intellectual honest, and possess only a whiff of logic.
He’s saying what Orwell was saying:
“War is peace”
“freedom is slavery”
2 and 2 do not make 4.
Obama said YESTERDAY, “Raising the debt ceiling will have no impact on our national debt.”
You think ‘false maps’ could make such a statement logical to a generation raised on that sort of language?
Remember “Work Smart Not Hard”? Great at selling college, but lousy at helping kids find a career. It also did a pretty good job turning a generation of above average intelligence kids into slaves of their college debt.
Same sort of ‘false map’ type programming.
Thank you!
Terry L Smith (Post #15) and yldstrk (Post #21) either did not read the excerpt or have a far different understanding of it than I.
Hayakawa is warning of the dangers of indoctrination in ideologies that have no basis in real world conditions. One of the prime objectives of liberalism is to control education and the dissemination of false “maps”.
On a bus ride to Chicago years ago, I sat next to a college coed who was reading BF Skinner. I had a little exposure to Skinner’s ideas, so I asked her about the book.
Coed: “Oh, he has the most wonderful ideas!”
Me: “Really? What does he say?”
Coed: “He says that all authority is bad!”
Me: “Really? This bus driver came in to work today and his supervisor told him to drive bus #5371 to Chicago. That is authority.”
Coed: “But he doesn’t HAVE to!”
Me: “If he wants to keep his job he has to. Besides, I don’t know about you, but I’d really like to get to Chicago today.”
I’m puzzled as to why anyone would consider these paragraphs to be “purely subversive psycho-babbling Communist rhetoric!” or think that “SI Hayakawa is also a bunch of crap”.
Much of the Black community has been deceived by the false “map” taught them by the educational establishment and the media, the “map” that says “all your problems are due to white people and events of 150 years ago. The “map” that tells young black men that mastering the 3 R’s is “acting white” and they will all become rich via the NBA or perhaps “live long & prosper” by drug dealing.
Much of the rest of the country has accepted the false “map” of “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”
” they have always had a way to account for their misfortunes that spared them introspection.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/does_aaron_alexis_represent_a_new_breed_of_killer.html
Jack Cashill makes my point with his examination of how Alex Haley’s “Roots” may have influenced Christopher Dorner and Aaron Alexis.
(see also the Free Republic discussion of this article at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3069309/posts)