05-26-2021, 09:23 PM
The economic elites wanted college education to be fiendishly expensive as a deterrent... and interest high enough that if one ever did get a degree one would practically be in debt-bondage with no certainty of deriving any economic benefit. In most cultures education is seen as a desirable thing in its own right, but where many of the politicians need a large number of scared. superstitious ignoramuses to vote for them. college education might thwart that. The economic elites want people to think that if they have their union decertified and are 'freed' from union dues they will be able to put a nice gift under the Christmas tree. They want people to believe someone like Donald Trump, a fast-talking con-man who might take away their freedom and give them the dubious opportunity to be overworked and underpaid. So Trump didn't quite succeed? Some other anal sphincter might.
Much of America's problem is that it does not value education as a means of achieving rational thought and honorable behavior.
Much of America's problem is that it does not value education as a means of achieving rational thought and honorable behavior.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.