Quote by AcyxIt's what
I've come to expect of a fascist nation, disdain for the arts and intellectuals. The solution to their problems was
to let the schools deteriorate, as that the ignorant are the ones who allow them to flourish. Seems that all this is a
poignant reminder of how much we really matter as people. Our children are being denied an education, so that they can
be easier baited as a generation of purely mindless consumers, or sent off to die in the new concept of the
"forever war" which has been placed in the disguise of a noble cause. At the rate we're going,
America's doomed to collapse. Whether into civil war or sociopolitical crisis, I cannot say. These things simply
cannot be ignored anymore.
Actually, hon, you've got it bass-ackwards. Fascist and totalitarian states looooooove education, provided
it's the right kind. Where else could children be indoctrinated with unquestioning loyalty to their state, right
or wrong? Where else could the best and brightest be cultivated for suicide squads like the SS? Where else could the
blase acceptance of all that is brutal, cruel, and oppressive be instilled in young minds? In states such as the ones
you mantioned (and compared with the United States), this curriculum of inhumanity was the purpose of the state.
And yet, and yet... by the very fact that you can speak as you did above, does this not mean you have 'seen the
light' that you are aware of other choices outside of absolute, unswerving loyalty to the state? Who taught you
that? No child, no matter how brilliant, can achieve enlightenment on their own in an atmosphere as stifling and
oppressive as you claim American education is.
There are plenty of problems in the education system - too much shirking of responsiblity by the government, laziness on
the part of parents (who somehow expect their schools to act as day-care centers and institutions of social instruction
in the absence of a nuturing family), and complacency on the part of students themselves who believe that they are
entitled to an easy life.
I agree such failings should be addressed, examined, and acted upon. But to employ such emotional and inflamatory
rhetoric demonstrates a lack of understanding of the roots of the problem.
