Editorializing has always been part of our culture—after all, that is what free speech is all about. But as the definition of words like “hypothesis” and “theory” have been deliberately and maliciously confused with words like “truth” and “fact”, so also has a generation of children been deliberately and maliciously confused. The system is dedicated to training up a programmable population—one that can be pointed in any desired direction using cattle-prod methods including intimidation, special effects, and outright lies.
An “end justifies the means” mentality has hijacked our culture, and while the free speech mantra has been shouted from every rooftop and used to protect destructive vices like pornography--free thinking is at best discouraged and at worst being actively drummed out of our schools.
I overheard a conversation on public transportation the other day. The twenty-somethings were employed in the “nanny” sector, and were exclaiming over the degree of their influence over their young charges, and their success at using that influence to train those kids and their friends to embrace their pet philosophies.
The words “I think” seldom appear in a lecture about debatable subjects like global warming or politics. Instead, opinion is presented as unassailable fact. Those who disagree are attacked or intimidated, not with valid arguments but with name calling (Rosied--in honor Rosie Odonnel's favorite method of silencing the opposition) and character assassination. Children whose parents actively challenge questionable ideas in the classroom are reluctant to talk to their parents because of repercussions felt in the classroom.
So, we give Oscars to men like Al Gore, inventor of the Internet and the global warming crisis. The joke is on us when an examination of his personal habits demonstrates even he doesn't believe his own message. Important discussion takes a back burner to the life and times of Anna Nicole. Animals are sacred, but babies are disposable, before or after you use them like a chemistry set.
We are standing back and watching our children be programmed like computer chips. Our educational system revolves around power and money, and the object is to hang on to as much of both as possible. We deliver our children daily to an education system with an agenda that has closer ties to crowd control than freedom of thought. A system committed to telling our children WHAT to think instead of teaching them how to think.
Students who learn to think and solve problems on their own become people who can discriminate between truth and fiction and want supportable and verifiable facts to back up absolutes. They cannot be controlled with pop science, psuedo-facts or docudrama. They are dangerous, because people who learn to think on their own will never be content with lies: they hunger and thus fight for truth, because they know truth is freedom--not only their own, but yours also.
