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The Troubling
Growth of Our Inadequate Public Schools
Every
government in history has sought conformity and control. The chief weapon
governments use to achieve them is psychological warfare. And it must be
working in America as few question anything.
It all
begins with indoctrination and conditioning through schools where children are taught what to think, not
how to think. I find it rather
bizarre, for example, when anti-Trump protestors are questioned about what it
is precisely they are protesting, most cannot provide a reasoned answer. They simply parrot answer someone has
obviously already given them, one which rarely makes any sense.
The more perfect psychological warfare, the more perfect is conformity and control. These two terms — conformity and control — are self-enforcing. That is, where there is conformity, there is control. Where there is control, there is conformity. The greater the one, the greater the other.
We are the most conditioned and programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded, our very awareness of the whole design has been erased.
The more perfect psychological warfare, the more perfect is conformity and control. These two terms — conformity and control — are self-enforcing. That is, where there is conformity, there is control. Where there is control, there is conformity. The greater the one, the greater the other.
We are the most conditioned and programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded, our very awareness of the whole design has been erased.
One
important thought here: A person's IQ or education level has absolutely nothing
to do with his perception of reality. Higher education is higher brainwashing.
Sometimes it seems that the more education, the bigger the fool.
Indeed,
with the research I have done, along with others, one could easily reach the
conclusion that collectively the average IQ of most Americans has been headed
south for a generation or more. I blame
much of this on our failing public schools and the growing addiction and
dependence many have to electronic devices.
Throughout
several years of owning several businesses including a very successful
publishing venture, I have hired dozens of employees. I have also taught a variety of college level
courses covering such subjects as retail marketing, political science and
others. I also conducted seminars and
workshops throughout the nation for more than a decade and have met a number of
people from a variety of backgrounds.
Like a
lot of other business owners, we have seen a troubling growth trend in the
United States among those aged 40 and younger.
The skill level is dropping. This
applies to basic social skills and education skills such as reading, writing
and math. Our schools are failing at
preparing our young for real world 101 and many now require “retraining” in
order to fit into the workplace.
What
troubles me even more, is how often young people are so often bamboozled by
their own government – fewer seem to have a grasp of the Bill of Rights or our
history. American history and the
Constitution seem have been glossed over in today’s school systems [as does
basic grammar as so many seem to have vocabularies limited to clichés today].
A well
educated populace is one key to a successful nation. A poorly educated person is easier to
manipulate and politicians throughout history have known this [this is why mass
book burnings have been a popular and symbolic tool of despots and why there is
growing trend in this country to revise our own history beginning with book
banning and the removal of statues of southern Civil War military and political
officials].
The
basis of mass mind control is the use of carefully chosen words that have been
twisted and distorted to manipulate the public mind. Whole volumes could be
written about this. Few escape this psychological warfare. Words are created
and repeated. This repetitiveness expands the collective psyche to further
accept and repeat.
Edward L. Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, is the father of manipulative propaganda in America. He says that mass persuasion and mass hypnosis is the fundamental of so-called democracy.
This is from Bernays book, Propaganda:
Edward L. Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, is the father of manipulative propaganda in America. He says that mass persuasion and mass hypnosis is the fundamental of so-called democracy.
This is from Bernays book, Propaganda:
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"Those who
manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government
which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds
molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never
heard of.
"In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business or in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind." |
The public mind is controlled once a person believes a "fact" long enough. He or she can no longer ponder or contemplate information or a question that challenges the "established" fact. The mind simply cannot process information that conflicts with previously accepted data. Prior conditioning is difficult to challenge.
The same
is true if we believe a lie long enough. We cannot ponder or contemplate
information that challenges the lie, even if the lie is lethal, such as
"fluoride prevents cavities."
Psychologists call this quirk of human nature cognitive dissonance. It means the rejection of information not in harmony with previous beliefs.
We are now being told that certain thoughts and ideas are "hate speech" and therefore out of bounds and must be eliminated. The internet is being scrubbed of any thought that deviates outside the norm if it can be labeled as "hate speech," which is of course a nebulous, meaningless and undefinable term. It's being done with the endorsement of politicians and leftist media pundits.
Psychologists call this quirk of human nature cognitive dissonance. It means the rejection of information not in harmony with previous beliefs.
We are now being told that certain thoughts and ideas are "hate speech" and therefore out of bounds and must be eliminated. The internet is being scrubbed of any thought that deviates outside the norm if it can be labeled as "hate speech," which is of course a nebulous, meaningless and undefinable term. It's being done with the endorsement of politicians and leftist media pundits.
For
instance, policies and tone set by political leaders matter…under Pres.
Obama, Americans were mislead to believe that “inequality was a bigger problem
than slow economic growth and that only government regulation and
politically directed credit could create prosperity.” The result was something straight out the
Communist playbook which created economic stagnation. Obama nearly choked our nation with
over-regulation [not that it needed help in that arena]. In 2018 growth in now reaching 4 percent but
that won’t be enough for Democratic city and state governments like
Philadelphia or Sacramento to dig itself out of its weight of unsustainable
retirement [overpromised] retirement pledges to municipal workers which might
be as high as $4 trillion or as high as size of Germany’s entire economy…cities
such as Detroit, another Democrat enclave, ran up so much debt, it was forced
into bankruptcy.
This is thought/mind control on a mass scale, bigger than Nazi book burnings. It is the electronic "memory hole" in action. Big Brother would feel right at home.
This is thought/mind control on a mass scale, bigger than Nazi book burnings. It is the electronic "memory hole" in action. Big Brother would feel right at home.
“Individuals with high trait
anger have a tendency to overestimate their abilities, i.e. thinking that they
are smarter than they actually are. This part of anger is associated with
narcissistic illusions,” Zajenkowski told PsyPost.
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3 comments:
It is easy to evidence of our failed school systems just about everywhere you go in public...too many young people 9and their parents] are morons, unable to remove their brain from their device to even carry on a reasonable conversation and so many of this rather blank look in their eye.
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It should be pretty evident to anyone over the age of 40 how much our schools have failed...my family and I shudder at the thought of turning the reigns of society over to the next generation, many of which have limited vocabularies and can barely tie a shoelace.
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