The Education Myth
And it’s working. The American experiment is all but dead in the water - the people no longer govern the people (if they ever did, given the overwhelming percentage of US leaders who have European royal genes)
While the rest of the world has a variety of Education system that seemed to be less and less effective over time, the US system is a standout among the crowd for producing people with few of the basic skills their grandparents had from fewer years of schooling.
As someone who went to school in the 60’s I find it bemusing anyone could spend 12 years at school and not be able to do basic arithmetic, be able to spell or at least duplicate the words they see in front of them and be unable to find even approximate locations of most countries on an unlabelled globe.
I’m not picking on Yanks here - virtually all the West is heading down the same path - we seem more concerned with teaching political correctness than personal self-worth, with making sure our kids know how to spend instead of how to add up. One has to wonder why the Governments INSIST all children ‘get an education’ when it has proven so ineffective - and one looks at the conformity and the undermining of the ability to apply critical thought and one begins to get an inkling of purpose.
The movies are just another tool - we get inured to things that a generation back would have had people on the streets in horror-provoked marches. We live in a society where a woman’s breast in public raises shocked headlines but the daily murder of thousands gets a brief mention on page 10.
With the use of movies and TV shows, we become accustomed to the shocking and the media knows it - they see it in how they constantly have to increase the shock value in headlines to get the attention of the masses. We look back and laugh at the simplistic adverts from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, forgetting that [i]those adverts worked![/i] because the people back then had not been traumatised by the violence and daily assault on our sensibilities that modern generations are born into.
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