By: Gary D. Barnett
“Good’ students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all: we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. The expert makes all the important choices; only I, the teacher, can determine what my kids must study, or rather, only the people who pay me can make those decisions, which I then enforce.”
~ John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
I am often asked why ‘we’ are in this insane mess, why is everything breaking down, why is morality a lost cause, why is there so much division and hate, why is there so much violence and war, why is globalism imminent, why-why-why?
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In order for rulers to rule, in order for the few to control the many, society as a whole must be made to feel subordinate to selected ‘leaders’ and experts as defined by those same so-called ‘leaders’ and experts; which includes the governing system of technocratic authoritarians posing as ‘gods’ among men. What is most important from the State’s perspective, is to keep a great separation between the common plebs and the ruling class ‘masters,’ so that the general population will act as one, bringing about a collective ignorance and indifference so steep as to be a major impediment to independent thought and action. This circumstance has to be instilled in the people almost from birth, and the method used generationally has been the ‘public’ (government) schooling system that abandoned education in favor of building universal sameness by dumbing-down the collective herd to such an extent as to breed a submissive, obedient, compliant, and dependent underclass of non-thinking drones.
The basis for this idea of ‘professional schooling’ via compulsory ‘education,’ from Socrates until today, was and is meant only to curb all intellectual growth of the common man, thereby creating a society of ignorant, dependent workers and slaves beholding to the corrupt and fraudulent governing system. Horace Mann brought the ideas of Prussian schooling back from Germany, and in the mid-nineteenth century, he established the first tax-supported government school in Massachusetts. From there it spread across the Northeast, and eventually throughout the country. This was the beginning of the end of real education in America.
To better understand the intent and scope of this horrendous system, one can look at the “Principles of Secondary Education” by Alexander James Inglis in 1918; an ‘educator’ who was instrumental in promoting the “new American” secondary ‘education’ system. In this book, Inglis outlined the “Six Purposes of Schooling.” They are, as noted in his book in Chapter X, pages 367, 375-384:
1) Adjustive or Adaptive Function, where schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority.
2) Integrating or Conformity Function, meant to develop like-mindedness, unity in thoughts and habits.
3) The Diagnostic and Directive Function, in order to label children to mark them in the class structure.
4)The Differentiating Function, to divide and conquer strategies to immobilize in social structure.
5) The Selective Function, to accomplish the preservation of the “favouried” races. (Darwyn and eugenics)
6) The Propaedeutic (introductory instruction) Function, to groom those in higher classes to manage the lower classes.
This is the essence of the American ‘schooling’ system, and has been in place since the 19th century. You see, this plan to dumb-down and destroy intellect, to manufacture an inferior working slave class, and to eliminate the individual in society in favor of a collective mass of weak-minded followers, cannot happen overnight, and must be a long-term and generational plan. Incremental decimation of critical thinking skills is mandatory if the few expect to control the many. The U.S. ‘schooling’ system is the linchpin of this effort to lay waste to human ingenuity, individuality, intellectual superiority, and those who would question any and all ‘authority.’ This revolting campaign has been tremendously successful for the ruling class and its controlled evil politicians.
This exercise of domination by intentional societal intellectual injury, has led to the doltishness and mass voluntary acceptance of false ‘authority’ by most all of this population. This is the basis of the conquest of the people at the hands of an evil, narcissistic, and controlling State. Without the bowing down to rule by the masses, none of what is going on today could ever have taken place, so accept blame and say no to government at every level.
As I have said over and over again, and for decades, no man has any right whatsoever to rule over any other man. Therefore, no one has any right to transfer power to any third party (politician) to delegate rule over any other. This is why all voting is reprehensible, and government, regardless of the nature of that government, is completely illegitimate, immoral, and absolutely wrong. Natural law is the only legitimate law of man, and natural law is inherent to humanity. It requires only that one do not harm another, harm or steal another’s property, trespass, or infringe or impede the liberty of any other man. It is just that simple.
All ‘authority’ can only exercise force and violence, and is therefore an unacceptable human atrocity. Freedom and authority cannot exist simultaneously, as they are polar opposites. This is why freedom has never once existed when any government is in place, regardless of any worthless government documents, constitutions, arbitrary laws outside natural law, erroneous legislation, commandments, regulations, or mandates. To claim to be free under any government rule is the epitome of ignorance and apathy, and clearly exposes the weakness and stupidity of the mind of the unaware slave.
Absolutely anyone who believes in any authority of one over another, is a lost soul, who has succumbed to a cancer of the mind. In simple terms, this would be described as retarded. Rule, all rule, is fully based on a master/slave relationship, where one is wielding forceful power and unholy violence over another, so to vote for rule to illegitimately transfer a right you do not have, a claim that your so-called ‘representative’ can use force to control another, is open and obvious evil. There is no excuse whatsoever for any to sink to this level of wickedness. If you find these words offensive, grow up, and understand that you are responsible for yourself, and have no right over any other on earth.
If you want real freedom, tear down all forms of government and authority, tear down any system of rule, and take appropriate measures to eliminate any threat of force of rule by any other human. Freedom is the nonexistence of force, violence, and rule, and has never existed in any environment based on governing. If this system survives, you will not!
“The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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