Posted on 10/22/2021 2:59:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Not all people exist in the same now.” Ernst Bloch, German Marxist, 1932.
Twenty-five percent of the American people exist in one “now” and see snow as black; another sixty percent live in an opposite “now” and see snow as white; and fifteen percent are effectively brain dead, but breathing, and may or may not recognize snow at all. Children are excepted.
This phenomenon is not cultural intersecting circles with some unifiers mutually shared—this is parallel trenches with a large no-trespass zone in between and white cease-fire flags available for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and birthdays lest the discussion veer to the color of snow. Quasi-wars smolder under the surface at these family gatherings as alternate trench-dwellers select news channels that reinforce their political positions.
How did we get to this state of affairs in America? Part of the explanation might be the following:
First, the philosophical premise of the American system is that there are universals, or objective truths, that exist in the world relative to humanity. The Founders felt that human beings are basically depraved, so government itself, even by the consent of the governed, is a necessity. Thomas Paine, in his pamphlet Common Sense, wrote in 1775: “Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world.”
There are other objective truths or realities that human beings can know through their senses or through their experiences. Snow is generally white. 2+2 = 4. Human beings cannot be perfected.
John Locke felt that the primary purpose of education, for instance, is to teach children general, objective knowledge. Our whole constitutional system is undergirded by the notion of these and other objective truths. They provide social stability and intergenerational connectivity.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This looks like a real article, published in a real website.
Is it?
Sounds like it was written by AI using sentence fragments from other articles. I read it twice and was more confused each time.
Actually it is a real website and I think it’s a great read.
American Thinker has some fine columnists
I found it to be quite readable - and insightful. Try it again?
I see snow as yellow.
What the article is saying is that many Americans have no sense of objectivity. They are willing to believe that 2+2=5 and then, a minute later, 2+2=17.
They believe what they are told, when they are told it.
Especially when it's coming from an authoritative source like a telescreen.
God is not the author of confusion, but of peace,
Amazing, isn’t it?
And it was not that long ago that the concept of “critical thinking skills” invaded our schools ...
"Watch out where the huskies go...."
So you go where the husky’s go.
With 2 holes in it? 😀
M.E. Droyd?
This is a good article. I need to read it again.
It’s describing one of the great truths of the world, philosophy matters..greatly. It is where a nation lives or falls.
Ours was taken apart in the school system which is what the article describes. I first started seeing it 30 years ago in the text books but IMO it’s true foundation was with the movement of mothers to the work force. America’s young were totally raised by daycare, the media and then the schools. The 19th century British had it right, “the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world”.
Interesting, and entirely proves the point of the article, which essentially calls for a reformation of the public school system around general, objective facts.
Have you read John Taylor Gatto?
“The Underground History of American Public Education” is quite a tour de force in the same vein as this article.
Here’s the Prologue:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/08/john-taylor-gatto/bianca-you-animal-shut-up/
Thanks, I’ll give it a look.
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