Posted by TheYellowDart on 07/17/09 09:54 AM [Newer: Frederick MD July 4th TEA Party] [Older: Something to whet your appetite]

The Frederick News Post columnist today suggested that the TEA parties are partisan. I suggested that she was using (or falling pray to) an age old tactic of .....

DIVIDE and CONQUER! Works every time. The people who created mass compulsory public schooling 100 years ago set this system in motion with reinforcement from the corporate media and the Federal Reserve system. It is a system of consumerism taught by the schools called competitive consumption. You isolate children of roughly the same age together in confinement year after year and pit them against each other competing for test grades, teacher's attention, sports, clothes styles, etc... It is designed to distract the children permanently from the powers that are controlling them. They are programmed to be obedient to the system, and those who are the most obedient are rewarded with little goodies and a place on the social class ladder a little higher than those less obedient. Those at the top of the ladder are the most invested and really very similar despite their protestation to the contrary.

Thus the Republocrat and Demopublican closest to the top are the most worthless. They are interested in maintaining the system exactly as it is to confer goodies (power, wealth, and pride) on their class. The Corporations and Labor Unions are the same way. The leadership in both are benefiting from the hierarchy crated underneath them and the battling of the lowers in what seems like a true dichotomy. It is not! The uppers at the union and the uppers at the company are both powerful, wealthy, prideful and surviving off the hierarchy beneath them. The pitting of people against each other to distract them from the benefiting hierarchy is an age old tactic.

We can get together and stop this, but we won't. Because it has been ingrained in us by the schools and reinforced by the media to be passive. Schooling is an exercise in passivity. Even many private schools do it the same way as the public school, so it is hopeless until people see that schooling is harmful - permanently harmful to true learning and education. Schooling kills free-thinking, creativity, independence, maturity, and innovation. Constant testing, subject abstraction, class size, bells, raising the hand, lines, drills, too much reliance on rote memorization, and the audience phenomenon cripples the mind and starves the spirit. The audience becomes passive and an easy target for Big Corporations selling goods and services, easy targets for Big Government selling Universal Health Care or Wars or whatever, easy targets for Big Church and the TV evangelists or Mega Churches, easy targets for the Corporate Media via advertising. If you are always in an audience and never the one in front of the audience, that may be fine in one or two things, but in everything it is a problem (school, theater, tv, sports games, gov't proceedings, stores, etc). Our society has become an audience society. Those wielding control of the audience don't want the audience to go away, because it empowers those in front. With schooling the system starts young making sure the passivity is taught at an early age. "I'll just sit back and let this information pass over me," says the little child after the natural curiosity has been drained out of him/her by the schooling apparatus. Sometimes it happens in 1st grade; sometimes it doesn't happen until they have been through a few years of it, 4th 5th, whatever. But eventually the school wins usually creating an obedient and passive populace.

The US was not always like this. This current system is an artifact of the Progressive era in America from 1890s-1920s roughly. Mass Compulsory Schooling in every state was passed at this time, The Federal Reserve, The Income Tax were all created at this time to subjugate the people permanently, because certain businessmen, politicians, and academicians thought they know best how to manage the society more effectively than the previous regime of freedom, liberty, and rugged individualism that was the hallmark of America for the prior 100+ years. The answer to the problem is to depopulate audiences. But we won't do it. We like our shows. We like not having to do the heavy lifting of producing. To become a producer and leave our role as consumer would be like "a Catholic becoming a Jehovah's Witness" as the columnist quoted.

Turn off the TV, don't send your kids to be a victim of school, stop collecting a paycheck and start an independent livelihood as nearly  every American did before the Progressive Era. Stop voting for a party and register independent. Stop shopping at Walmart and support you local farmer or grow it/hunt it/fish it yourself. Stop going to the theater and sports games. You have the power to stop the madness, but we won't. We like our escapes. We like to consume. It is what we have been trained to do - Compete for Consumables. If we have the courage to do it, we can save our waistlines, our environment, our self-respect, our souls, and our children's future. Otherwise, I see no different course than that fate which befell every previous empire - decay.

Financial ruin awaits the next generation. The consuming individual is multiplied by the consuming nation. The debt is staggering and will come due one day. You cannot ignore it forever. The monster will eat us all alive. We cannot be a nation of only or mostly consumers. We must once again bear producers as is our heritage. The only way out is to depopulate the system. Check out the von Mises Institute for economic freedom, John Taylor Gatto for educational freedom, Michael Frost for spiritual freedom, Ron Paul for political freedom, and yourselves for personal freedom. These people I mention are not saviors. They are examples. There are many, many other names I could have listed here, but this has gotten long enough.

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I hope I didn't offend anyone at the paper :)

Posted 07/17/09 7:27 PM Linda APO AP, Japan

Well written. John Gatto's book on line was the first thing I read when I signed on to this "new" C4L site. If you really want to read a time piece of propaganda, read the book, "Primer for the New Deal", c. 1933. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. FDR the savior...sure glad we have term limits now.

Posted 07/18/09 11:55 AM Francisco Severn, MD

Every time the TV is turned on by my family I leave the room to read a book, go for a run, perform a chore around the house, call a friend to see how their doing, do Ti-chi, or attend to something else that needs to get done. Every time at dinner when we eat as a family, whenever the conversation turns to a television show I change the subject as best I can or I do my best to find that topic uninteresting. Action speak louder then words. Hard work pays off. Anger must be channeled or else the energy is wasted.