Posted on 03/08/2006 3:52:51 AM PST by unionblue83
No one familiar with our nations increasingly dysfunctional public schools should have found it surprising that a Colorado High School teacher named Jay Bennish delivered a 20 minute, anti-American rant to his 10th grade geography class taken straight out of Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore. True enough, Mr. Bennish was somewhat cruder than your average leftist teacher. Apparently, he was also too stupid to realize that political indoctrination in the classroom goes over much more smoothly and is less likely to cause a public uproar if the teacher observes a few minor pedagogical constraints.
In fact, Bennish might have been uniquely fatuous, but he is not unique. There are smoother, more effective Bennishes everywhere in our great American high schools. Thats one reason why our graduates are so full of self-esteem and have all the right attitudes, but actually know less math, science and history than their counterparts in most of the worlds industrialized nations. Indeed, although political indoctrination in our universities gets all the attention, it is even more widespread and dangerous in our elementary and high schools. The younger the students are, of course, the less likely are they able to withstand or even detect attempts at social and political thought control in the classroom. At least the higher education professoriate denies that it favors using the classroom as a political bully pulpit. By contrast, the K-12 public school establishment has adopted a quasi-official pedagogy that encourages the classroom teacher to shape students beliefs on controversial issues like race, gender, sexual preference, and American foreign policy.
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Take a look at the envisioned world of the 21st century:
|
OLD PARADIGM |
NEW PARADIGM |
Beliefs |
Based on Bible |
Blend of New Age & earth-centered religions |
Culture |
Western individualism |
Global solidarity |
Values |
Based on the Bible (absolute, unchangeable truth) |
Based on human idealism (easy to manipulate) |
Morals |
Moral boundaries |
Sensual freedom |
Rights |
Personal freedom |
Social controls |
Economy |
Free enterprise |
Socialist collective |
Government |
By the people |
By those who control |
The masses would be controlled through the Hegelian dialectic (consensus) process by globalist leaders who would view the world through the new filter of globalism. Polls, propaganda, simple slogans, and continual conflicts would be essential to its success. In fact, the greater the perceived crisis, the faster the leader can assume the coveted political powers that true freedom forbids. President Clinton has already mastered these totalitarian strategies, as Mikhail Gorbachev suggested in a 1993 editorial:
Excerpt from: Brainwashing in America"Bill Clinton will be a great president if he can make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus."
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