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You might think that reading about a podunk university's
English teacher's attempt to connect the dots between the poverty of
American education and the gullibility of the American public may be a
little trivial, considering we're about to embark on the first,
openly-confessed imperial adventure of senescent capitalism in the US, but
bear with me. The question my experiences in the classroom raise is why
have these young people been educated to such abysmal depths of ignorance.
"I don't read," says a junior without the slightest self-consciousness.
She has not the smallest hint that professing a habitual preference for
not reading at a university is like bragging in ordinary life that one
chooses not to breathe. She is in my "World Literature" class. She has to
read novels by African, Latin American, and Asian authors. She is not
there by choice: it's just a "distribution" requirement for graduation,
and it's easier than philosophy--she thinks.
The novel she has trouble reading is Isabel Allende's "Of Love and
Shadows," set in the post-coup terror of Pinochet's junta's Nazi-style
regime in Chile, 1973-1989. No one in the class, including the English
majors, can write a focused essay of analysis, so I have to teach that. No
one in the class knows where Chile is, so I make photocopies of general
information from world guide surveys. No one knows what socialism or
fascism is, so I spend time writing up digestible definitions. No one
knows what Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is, and I supply it because it's
impossible to understand the theme of the novel without a basic knowledge
of that work--which used to be required reading a few generations ago. And
no one in the class has ever heard of 11 September 1973, the CIA-sponsored
coup which terminated Chile's mature democracy. There is complete shock
when I supply US de-classified documents proving US collusion with the
generals' coup and the assassination of elected president, Salvador
Allende.
Geography, history, philosophy, and political science--all missing from
their preparation. I realize that my students are, in fact, the oppressed,
as Paulo Freire's "The Education of the Oppressed" pointed out, and that
they are paying for their own oppression. So, I patiently explain: no, our
government has not been the friend of democracy in Chile; yes, our
government did fund both the coup and the junta torture-machine; yes, the
same goes for most of Latin America. Then, one student asks, "Why?" Well,
I say, the CIA and the corporations run roughshod over the world in part
because of the ignorance of the people of the United States, which
apparently is induced by formal education, reinforced by the media, and
cheered by Hollywood. As the more people read, the less they know and the
more indoctrinated they become, you get this national enabling stupidity
to attain which they go into bottomless pools of debt. If it weren't
tragic, it would be funny.
Meanwhile, this expensive stupidity facilitates US funding of the
bloody work of death squads, juntas, and terror regimes abroad. It permits
the war we are about to wage--an unfair, illegal, unjust, illogical, and
expensive war, which announces to the world the failure of our
intelligence and, by the way, the creeping weakness of our economic
system. Every man, woman, and child killed by a bomb, bullet, famine, or
polluted water will be murder--and a war crime. And it will signal the
impotence of American education to produce brains equipped with the bare
necessities for democratic survival: analyzing and asking questions.
Let me put it succinctly: I don't think serious education is possible
in America. Anything you touch in the annals of knowledge is a foe of this
system of commerce and profit, run amok. The only education that can be
permitted is if it acculturates to the status quo, as happens in the
expensive schools, or if it produces people to police and enforce the
status quo, as in the state school where I teach. Significantly, at my
school, which is a third-tier university, servicing working-class,
first-generation college graduates who enter lower-etchelon jobs in the
civil service, education, or middle management, the favored academic
concentrations are communications, criminal justice, and social
work--basically how to mystify, cage, and control the masses.
This education is a vast waste of the resources and potential of the
young. It is boring beyond belief and useless--except to the powers and
interests that depend on it. When A Ukranian student, a three-week arrival
on these shores, writes the best-organized and most profound essay in
English of the class, American education has something to answer
for--especially to our youth.
But the detritus and debris that American education has become is both
planned and instrumental. It's why our media succeeds in telling lies.
It's why our secretary of state can quote from a graduate-student paper,
claiming confidently that the stolen data came from the highest
intelligence sources. It's why Picasso's "Guernica" can be covered up
during his preposterous "report" to the UN without anyone guessing the
political significance of this gesture and the fascist sensibility that it
protects.
Cultural fascism manifests itself in an aversion to thought and
cultural refinement. "When I hear the word 'culture,'" Goebbels said, "I
reach for my revolver." One of the infamous and telling reforms the
Pinochet regime implemented was educational reform. The basic goal was to
end the university's role as a source of social criticism and political
opposition. The order came to dismantle the departments of philosophy,
social and political science, humanities and the arts--areas in which
political discussions were likely to occur. The universities were ordered
to issue degrees only in business management, computer programming,
engineering, medicine and dentistry-- vocational training schools, which
in reality is what American education has come to resemble, at least at
the level of mass education. Our students can graduate without ever
touching a foreign language, philosophy, elements of any science, music or
art, history, and political science, or economics. In fact, our students
learn to live in an electoral democracy devoid of politics-- a feature the
dwindling crowds at the voting booths well illustrate.
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that, in the rapacity that the
industrial revolution created, people first surrendered their minds or the
capacity to reason, then their hearts or the capacity to empathize, until
all that was left of the original human equipment was the senses or their
selfish demands for gratification. At that point, humans entered the stage
of market commodities and market consumers--one more thing in the
commercial landscape. Without minds or hearts, they are instrumentalized
to buy whatever deadens their clamoring and frightened senses--official
lies, immoral wars, Barbies, and bankrupt educations.
Meanwhile, in my state, the governor has ordered a 10% cut across the
board for all departments in the state--including education.
Luciana Bohne can be contacted at
lbohne@edinboro.edu.
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"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie." (II Thessalonians 2:11)
Quicktime Movie
to help you to stay centered and peaceful in the midst of war and hate in a
chaotic world..
"I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on
Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel
Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
What Can I Do? Your power is actually infinite, but your programming has you
believing that you are weak and vulnerable. It also depends upon whether your sense
of WHO you are is limited to the "what" that you are.. While necessary to keep our eyes on the prize, we must
nevertheless keep our eyes on what can we do each day, each hour, to avert this
catastrophe and yet remain detached from the 3-D experience to watch ourselves
having this experience.
Stop Praying for Peace
but Paying for War!!!
How do you strike at the root? You've probably heard the aphorism, "Money is the
root of all evil." Well, it's truer than you might have suspected. For over 300
years the Illuminati,
comprised of the world's richest families, the international bankers and
financiers, have been playing
both ends against the middle by implementing
wars in which armaments and men are needed on both sides. Financing for
these great expenditures comes from the Illuminatist
Bankers and Financiers. War
weakens both countries and the Illuminati step in to buy property and
influence. When the wars are over armaments must be replaced and the
devastation of war must be repaired. They
make money at the beginning, in the middle and in the end.
So how can you strike at this root of oppression and violence?
Take back your power, cancel the
illegal contracts that you've been conned into signing,
eliminate mortgages legally and morally,
eliminate credit card debt, use
your credit that the US government has been using as collateral against their
enormous debt, your
birthright. It's been stolen, misappropriated, and you've never even been
told that it even exists. By presumption, the US government has held YOU as
collateral for their wasteful spending on wars and oppressive conquest....truly IN
YOUR NAME! You've been praying for peace while paying for war. That is not a clear
spiritual or patriotic action, rather like sitting on the fence. Regardless of your
vote, your conscience, you've been paying for war and oppression
of others while praying for peace. You have a choice to legally and honorably
end your forced dilemma.
Are you concerned about the morality of eliminating your debts? What you don't
know is that by accepting the illusion of banks LOANING money, you have fallen into
the trap of supporting oppression and war. Vote with your MONEY! Take back your
credit you have let them use YOUR WHOLE LIFE!. Take back the energy you have loaned
THEM to load the dice against peace. Yes. You did! Find out how and then ACT NOW!
In fear of your government you have accepted their authority to levy taxes.
In mid- August 2003, Vernice Kuglin of Memphis, Tennessee, was acquitted by a jury
of her peers of the IRS charge of tax evasion. She had been studying the tax code for
several years looking for the statute that said that she must pay
taxes or file income tax forms. Not finding any, she wrote two letters to
the IRS asking them to help her find the authorization for the IRS to
collect taxes from her. They didn't answer either letter. Eight years later,
Vernice was ordered to stand trial. She won. The IRS could not provide the
legal citation. Paying taxes is paying for
war and oppression, murder and torture, exploitation and crime. You have
options to end that moral dilemma. We can
provide you with those options and the coaching to implement them.
But how would the country pay for the needed services and infrastructure? Who would
pay for the roads, elder care, education? There are two answers to that
illusory dilemma. First, you must understand that the governments at all
levels--national, state, county, city, even school districts--have been keeping two
sets of books. The accounting system usually seen by the public is the budget
and the required taxes to fund the items on the budget. You will not find the
gross revenues in these public documents. Hidden in what was once called the
Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report, are the gross revenues
from investments, loans, and other funds controlled by the government
officials. These are usually far in excess of the revenue needed to facilitate the
budget. Taxes
are actually not needed. Several years ago Orange County, California proclaimed
a budgetary crisis warning of the probability of a terrible bankruptcy. When
someone pointed out their gross revenues the problem disappeared from the news
immediately.
The second answer to the question, "How would we pay for the needed services and
infrastructure if no one paid taxes?" is to understand our
illegal money system. Few people know the history or the nature of the Federal
Reserve System. With "Federal" in the name, most people assume it is an
arm of the Federal Government. Actually, the Federal
Reserve is no more "Federal" than Federal Express. A private corporation, Its
Board of Directors are the primary financiers, the international bankers, known as
the
Illuminati- -Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburg's, etc. They RENT Federal
Reserve Notes to the US government as a loan, even though the printing was done
by the US Government for pennies on the dollar. This IS the
New World Order being formed under your nose, piece by piece, and you are
paying for it. You can begin a shift to another private money system that is supported by REAL
VALUE, independent of the Illuminati and Zionist bankers and manipulators.
You say you don't have time, you've got to earn money to keep afloat? Go to the ACT NOW
page for ideas to strike at the root while providing for your needs. This is a
battle that you cannot afford to lose unless freedom and life itself have no
meaning for you and your loved ones. This is not alarmist. This is an alarm
sounding. I don't have a horse or the time to trot about and shout that the
redcoats are coming.
They are here and they are in control.
Reliance on pharmaceuticals and the "Western" Medical Model of health-care is
hazardous to your health. Vaccinations can and
will be used against you. Not all long clouds in the sky are . Food products are
contaminated with Genetically
Modified Organisms IN THE FOOD itself and has caused cancer and other medical
problems.
Talk to other people. Let them know what you know or question what you have learned
to question. Your informed conversation will let them know that they are not alone
in wishing for peace so that they can have the courage to speak, too.
Show them some of the ways you have discovered to help take your power and your
country back.
Let Congress know how angry you are. Forget emails or FAX, CALL. a congressman
every day. Be polite. Do not threaten. Tell them firmly that what is happening is
NOT OK.. Tell your friends to do the same. Tell them to tell THEIR friends
and so on and so on. Go to Thomas
Legislative Information web site for contact information.
Most importantly, get informed about the
New World Order Agenda. The torture of Iraqi prisoners was SET UP to turn the
Islamic world against the US. When the Islamic states shift from US Dollars for the
medium of exchange in the petroleum market, the US economy will take a steep plunge
and so will much of the rest of the world economy. Then people who were not
prepared will become dependent upon the good will of the New World Order. Many will
die. Now that they have control of most of our resources and have used us to fight
their wars, they will discard America as their superpower support as we become
their virtual colony. The last bastion of freedom will have lost its capacity to
respond to the coming despotism of the New World Order. I apologize if this sounds
grim. It just is. 911 has
shown us the face of the New World Order.
911 was truly a wake up call if you are sharp enough to comprehend.
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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the
animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or
your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly
upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
"My country, If right, to be kept right, and, if wrong, to be set right. The American
people" Schurz continued, "should be specially careful not to permit themselves to be
influenced in their decisions by high-sounding phrases of indefinite meaning, by vague
generalities, or by seductive catchwords appealing to unreasoning pride and reckless
ambition. More than ever, true patriotism now demands the exercise of the soberest
possible discernment." Senator Carl Schurz [1800s]
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The Farmer's Plan for his Cattle--Cow them into Submission and then Cull the Herd.
"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power
has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War
II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (pp
24-5)
"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is ... Now a non-Eurasian power is
preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long
and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.
(p.30)
"In that context, how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe's
largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would
control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive
regions.
It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This
limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation.
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit
of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden
threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic
self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among
professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.
Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
"In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the
concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not
only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to
be the very last." (p.209)
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it
more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the
circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." (p.
211)
THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997
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