[ale] [OT] A Public Education (was: [OTOTOTOT] unusual global warming experiment)

[Harold Bieber]

I think you need to replace the tin foil in your hat.



On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:35 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2010/02/11, at 14:31 , Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 14:19, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
> > > wrote:
> >> There's money being spent by school systems but it's not going to
> >> help educate the kids.
> >
> > I can't believe that I'm jumping in to this mess of a thread... but
> > Jim Lynch has mentioned the most truthful and worthwhile thing so far,
> > and it needs to be noted for that.
>
> Actually, I found the best comment was Jim Kinney's point below,
> because it speaks to the economic disparities that are the core of
> most of the world's problems (including the fact of global warming
> being caused as significantly by wood cooking fires and 2 cycle
> moped motors in developing nations as by coal fire power plants
> and modern 4 cycle automobile engines in our own):
>
> "I don't think it's "property value " so much [as] home ownership vs.
> rental. I really think that sense of responsibility and permanence from
> home ownership leads to a longer view that supports academic
> excellence.  In the US, a renter is actually encouraged to move often
> based on move-in incentives, etc. Ask any person in K12 teaching
> how disruptive a family move is to a child's learning process."
>
> As to education money not being spent on education, I have to agree...
> at least as far as the way that our piratized U.S. public school funds
> are now devoted almost entirely to training our rising generations to
> be rigidly and blindly obedient, greed driven consumer drones who
> are only good at glutinously and arrogantly usurping the world's
> resources or at taking tests while they are simultaneously led to
> squander their diminishing leisure time and the years that should
> be spent pursuing higher learning in order to train for the murder
> and torture of brown people with remote control video game
> weapons so we can take everything those foreigners might be
> sitting on as ours to consume, too.  Any passion for learning
> and reason and knowledge and free thought and inquiry is being
> systematically driven from the public educational system in the
> same ways that the hate monger political climate has driven
> everything of worth and reason and civility out of our
> commonwealth civil institutions.
>
> If even half of the national resources that are squandered on the U.S.
> industrial death machine industry to develop better ways to kill people
> were instead used to develop better ways to meet basic, world wide
> human needs for food, clothing, shelter, health care, energy and
> education, then we wouldn't need to fabricate excuses for the endless
> wars of invasion and occupation, or disguise those military atrocities
> as disaster "relief" operations or claim they are a defense against
> intangible conceptual enemies like "tearism" and "commienism"
> and "drugs".
>
> We might then spend the rest of the bloated industrial military death
> budget to improve the human condition, perhaps by establishing
> public college education systems, or by making any other investment
> in education or public services that would inevitably be a better use
> of our tax money than the 70 BILLION DOLLARS a year we currently
> squander producing slick TV adverts and spreading fraudulent
> promises to entice our young people to become fascist murdering,
> torturing mercenary tools of the glutinous leeches running the
> globalized corporate death machine industries.  SEND YOUR CHILD
> TO DIE FOR LOCKHEED EXON MOBILE MARTIN!   ALL YOUR
> OFFSPRING ARE BELONG TO US!
>
> Never before have so many worked so hard to deny their own self
> interests for the glutinous leeching avarice of so few.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
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