2025-04-07
This article is written from the American perspective, but politics knows no national boundaries any longer.
As nobody has ever said to my knowledge, but it needs saying so I'll say it:
"Our Creator gave us the most extraordinarily capable organ between our ears, and it would therefore be the height of discourtesy not to use it"
Yet today's education establishments seem to go out of their way to discourage its use.
The tactic is presented as a Left vs Right issue, but that does a great disservice to the many - well, several at least - proponents of "the Left" (for example, Yanis Varoufakis) who assert that the Left should be the champions of the people, and who see no conflict between that ideal and the ideal that we should use our "God-given" gifts to the full to that purpose.
But every political movement can be usurped and corrupted to other ends, and so it has been that "the Left" has been debased to mean not "champions of the people" but "controllers of the people" - and there is no shortage of historical examples where that control was wielded directly against the interests of "the people" - the "Russian revolution", which was not a revolution by the Russians but a take-over by the imported Bolsheviks under Lenin et al, which led to vast numbers of dead both in Russia and the Ukraine ... the Chinese Communist revolution which led to Chairman Mao's "Cultural revolution" where children were encouraged to denounce their parents simply for what Chairman Mao had denounced as wrong-think ... and Pol Pot, in Cambodia where anyone with any brains was taken out into the fields to have them shot out.
So this "Left" has an inglorious history, yet today's "Left" in both the UK and USA is busy similarly (if less ostentatiously) attacking the people by educating the free thinking out of them in the Sate's schools systems. If not today, they reason that tomorrow they will have a controllable population that doesn't challenge "authority".
We saw how that played out in 2020.
John Droz Jr notes how this is playing out right in front of us.
