rms wrote:
rms it saddens my heart greatly to report this, but I have asked, probably half, of my classes over the past several years....
I only do it when there is an apropos moment ....
"Who has heard of the Gulags, or the "salt mines" or some stuff like that.....
And the ONLY people who ever raise their hands.....are usually up into their late thirties....
Nobody knows about Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
All of that has been erased from the educational memory of history books in the U.S. or if it is discussed, it is dismissed as an aberration and especially an aberration of the conservative, paranoid, mindset.
In biology books, Lysenkoism has disappeared, the evolution frauds have disappeared, ...in other words.....a scientist can do no wrong and is as close to god as people are going to get to save them from all the evils of the world...
But, one has to also give credit to where credit is due..... AGW has disappeared also.
In the physical sciences cold fusion has disappeared, along with "aether" and other miscellany.....again.......the scientist can do no wrong....
especially when working for the government.......
any scientist working for private industry is well,,,,,,,,,,,,, nothing but a paid stooge for capitalism.
Even when I was in high school, the "educationists" really looked with a very SUSPECT eye at FFA. After all, it is "private" ....not government controlled..... and the 4H was kind of suspect also.
The "Democrats" have tried to get rid of FFA for decades, while grudgingly going along with 4H....
Why would that be....? Well, both organizations teach..............independence of thought........the students DO things instead of "playing like they do something".....
The labor department is now going at in another way....
http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/F...149136515.html
Anything to get more control to the government and this under a supposedly liberal administration....
One definition of liberalism:
However, in modern liberalism, that does not apply to anything associated with "being conservative", or "business", or watching a cable channel which is not on the approved list, such as Fox News.
Now, the immediate riposte is "yeah but..."...."look at what Catholic Church has done"...etc...
But the argument falls flat on it's face.
By definition, according to the modern liberal thought: anything "conservative/church related/business related" is "restrictive and authoritarian".
Ipso facto then one would EXPECT all those evil conservatives and churchy people to want to RESTRICT anything one does....so they can go to heaven and the businesses can make big money...
But..... since the definition of liberalism above states: the individual is free from all interferences and restrictions ......
it raises the question of why "the liberals"( who want unrestricted freedoms) want to shut down talk radio and Fox News, and also want to stop the sales of 32 ounce sodas.
U.S. history is being rewritten on a massive scale.
woodsmoke
Goli Otok where they, who survived, mastered the art of stonemasonry.
I only do it when there is an apropos moment ....
"Who has heard of the Gulags, or the "salt mines" or some stuff like that.....
And the ONLY people who ever raise their hands.....are usually up into their late thirties....
Nobody knows about Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
All of that has been erased from the educational memory of history books in the U.S. or if it is discussed, it is dismissed as an aberration and especially an aberration of the conservative, paranoid, mindset.
In biology books, Lysenkoism has disappeared, the evolution frauds have disappeared, ...in other words.....a scientist can do no wrong and is as close to god as people are going to get to save them from all the evils of the world...
But, one has to also give credit to where credit is due..... AGW has disappeared also.
In the physical sciences cold fusion has disappeared, along with "aether" and other miscellany.....again.......the scientist can do no wrong....
especially when working for the government.......
any scientist working for private industry is well,,,,,,,,,,,,, nothing but a paid stooge for capitalism.
Even when I was in high school, the "educationists" really looked with a very SUSPECT eye at FFA. After all, it is "private" ....not government controlled..... and the 4H was kind of suspect also.
The "Democrats" have tried to get rid of FFA for decades, while grudgingly going along with 4H....
Why would that be....? Well, both organizations teach..............independence of thought........the students DO things instead of "playing like they do something".....
The labor department is now going at in another way....
http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/F...149136515.html
Anything to get more control to the government and this under a supposedly liberal administration....
One definition of liberalism:
Liberalism is a political ideology that thinks that an individual is free from all interferences and restrictions.
Now, the immediate riposte is "yeah but..."...."look at what Catholic Church has done"...etc...
But the argument falls flat on it's face.
By definition, according to the modern liberal thought: anything "conservative/church related/business related" is "restrictive and authoritarian".
Ipso facto then one would EXPECT all those evil conservatives and churchy people to want to RESTRICT anything one does....so they can go to heaven and the businesses can make big money...
But..... since the definition of liberalism above states: the individual is free from all interferences and restrictions ......
it raises the question of why "the liberals"( who want unrestricted freedoms) want to shut down talk radio and Fox News, and also want to stop the sales of 32 ounce sodas.
U.S. history is being rewritten on a massive scale.
woodsmoke
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