We've reached terminal velocity: Washington state bureaucrats bemoan 'rational thinking'

American Thinker ^ | 24/12/22 | Olivia Murray

[Eleutheria5]

Make Orwell Fiction Again.

The Washington state Department of Health recently released a five-part curriculum, and it transcends the typical bounds of the woke agenda so characteristic of the political regressives driving public "education" into the ground.

Frank Bergman's headline caught my eye, because the locations of the quotations were quite surreal: "Public School 'Climate' Curriculum: 'Emotions' Should Outweigh 'Rational Thinking.'"

From the article:

The health department claims the new curriculum aims to help students learn the 'intersections of biological, societal, and environmental issues.' ...

In the second phase of the curriculum, 'Climate Change & Pregnancy.' educators and students are told to 'pay attention' to their emotions.

'For too long' science has caused 'rational thinking' to be prioritized, the health department laments.

Isn't science supposed to be as objective as humanly possible? How can we take anyone seriously who actually suggests that hysteria is a better approach than rationality? We can't.

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[Eleutheria5]

".....if they're really that concerned, divest from Big Oil and stop living like a first-world person....."

It would be educational.

[Steely Tom]

Wow, Ayn Rand predicted the future yet again.

[Rurudyne]

Many years ago on some Sunday talking head show I heard George Soros poo poo rational thinking. It was my first encounter with him.

[steve86]

My town’s school board in eastern WA ignores all this psychosis coming from the west side.

[Eleutheria5]

It didn’t require much clairvoyance.

[Gene Eric]

Rational thinking is a threat to their political survival

[popdonnelly]

The woke crowd is beyond pathetic. Their political vehicle is the Democratic Party.

[popdonnelly]

It doesn’t surprise that Soros is not a believer in rational thinking. The people he backs don’t believe in it, either.

[freedumb2003]

teacher: What is 2 + 2?
student: 4!
t: maybe. What do you feel it SHOULD be?

[MarMema]

You are on the good side. I have family there.

[dfwgator]

2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes up five

I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April’s showers
And two and two always makes up five

It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Because you have not been

Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention oohh

I try to sing along
But the music’s all wrong
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not

I swat ‘em like flies
But like flies the buggers
Keep coming back
And not
But I’m not
All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not

Don’t question my authority or put me in a box
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not
Oh go and tell the king
That the sky is falling in
But it’s not
But it’s not
But it’s not
Maybe not
Maybe not

[TigerHawk]

THIS IS SURPRISING? THE LEFT HAS ESTABLISHED THAT MEN CAN BE WOMEN, WOMEN CAN BE MEN, JUST BY FEELING SO, AND WORSE, THE WORST!, IS THAT THE LEFT HAS INSISTED THAT RATIONAL PEOPLE NOT ONLY ACCEPT THIS INSANITY, BUT NOT EVEN LAUGH AT IT!

MOST DO AS THE LEFT INSISTS! WHY SHOULD THEY HESITATE AT ALL TO PUSH THE VERY LIMITS OF SANITY???

PREDICTABLY, THEY ARE STRIKING AT THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN...AND WE ALLOW THEM TO!!!

WHEN REALITY BITES IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’S REIGN OF TERROR LOOK LIKE A WALK IN THE PARK!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL!!!

[Angelino97]

China is free of such wokeness. One reason the 21st Century will be the Chinese century.

Asia shall be the custodian of Western science, just as medieval Christian monks were the custodians of classical antiquity.

[Da Coyote]

Saw the word “intersection” in their silly screed - and stopped right there. We know what kind of “logic” uses that word in the typical leftist word masturbation way.

[Mr. Jeeves]

“Lawson looked away. “To hell with them! Why should we worry about them? We’ve got to run the world for the sake of the little people. It’s intelligence that’s caused all the troubles of humanity. Man’s mind is the root of all evil. This is the day of the heart. It’s the weak, the meek, the sick and the humble that must be the only objects of our concern.” His lower lip was twisting in soft, lecherous motions. “Those who’re big are here to serve those who aren’t. If they refuse to do their moral duty, we’ve got to force them. There once was an Age of Reason, but we’ve progressed beyond it. This is the Age of Love.” — Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

[Scrambler Bob]

Insane = not sane

= not logical
=not able to see truth
=not able make logical conclusions from truth.

Example: Adam Shiffff at the hearings.

[AZJeep]

But you must “trust the science” of Faucci and the global warming alarmists!

[Lurker]

Rand was a prophet.

L

[Eleutheria5]

Rand was a militant atheist, whose only notion of the Creator was of a bureaucrat that you come to to ask for favors. Her own “philosophy” contained other possibilities: A great manufacturer who just wants the beneficiaries of His largesse to appreciate Him and thank Him. But she just had to have atheism. I endured every last page of Atlas Shrugged and Anthem, sloppy characterization and long-winded speeches and all, actually liked We The Living, parts of which it was apparent that she lived. But at Fountainhead, I could take no more of her, and shut the book and never read another line of stilted dialogue and implausible motivation.

[GingisK]

Where did you get the ASR33? I want one.