02-01-2020, 02:47 PM
** 01-Feb-2020 World View: Education
Unfortunately, education has nothing to do with it. If Rwanda had
better schools, would the Hutus have killed fewer Tutsis?
Bashar al-Assad was educated in London and became an ophthalmologist.
Vladimir Putin is highly educated. And yet they're both committing
genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Arab Sunnis in Syria.
Aung San Suu Kyi is well-educated and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And
yet, she's overseeing the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.
Xi Jinping and, in fact, most Chinese people are well-educated. But
they're still arresting, enslaving and killing Muslim Uighurs and
Kazakhs.
In addition, Buddhists and Christians are also beaten, jailed and
tortured if they claim to worship anyone but Xi Jinping. You'd think
that was a joke, but it's not a joke.
And today's Democrats are well-educated, but they're on the same path
anyway. Democrats have turned into crazed lunatics, on the one hand
demanding a suicidal Socialist agenda, and on the other hand totally
psychopathicly obsessed with hatred for Trump supporters. And we
haven't yet seen the worst of it.
So, unfortunately, being well-educated has nothing to do with it,
except that when you're well-educated then you know more ways to
torture and kill people, and you're more intellectually vacuous ways
of justifying your torture and killing.
richard5za Wrote:> Very interesting perspective, John. Thank you for the detailed
> response. Yes, I agree totally with your analysis of Northern
> Ireland. And the Scots don't like the English at all, historically
> and in more recent times the English have more successful
> economically. Years ago I was on business in Scotland and as a
> South African I was being royally entertained but I did need to
> agree quite often that the English were no good. I had very
> similar experiences in Wales and Dublin.
> I didn't realise that the American fault line had its routes in
> the Civil War, and that the Democrats were Southerners.
> Southerners have a (probably not true) reputation of being
> politically about 5 degrees to the right of Attila the Hun! And
> it really is the most successful country on the planet
> economically, and can afford to educate its people better than
> anyone else, so I suppose I expected a more enlightened attitude.
> But I suppose humans are humans everywhere.
Unfortunately, education has nothing to do with it. If Rwanda had
better schools, would the Hutus have killed fewer Tutsis?
Bashar al-Assad was educated in London and became an ophthalmologist.
Vladimir Putin is highly educated. And yet they're both committing
genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Arab Sunnis in Syria.
Aung San Suu Kyi is well-educated and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And
yet, she's overseeing the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.
Xi Jinping and, in fact, most Chinese people are well-educated. But
they're still arresting, enslaving and killing Muslim Uighurs and
Kazakhs.
In addition, Buddhists and Christians are also beaten, jailed and
tortured if they claim to worship anyone but Xi Jinping. You'd think
that was a joke, but it's not a joke.
And today's Democrats are well-educated, but they're on the same path
anyway. Democrats have turned into crazed lunatics, on the one hand
demanding a suicidal Socialist agenda, and on the other hand totally
psychopathicly obsessed with hatred for Trump supporters. And we
haven't yet seen the worst of it.
So, unfortunately, being well-educated has nothing to do with it,
except that when you're well-educated then you know more ways to
torture and kill people, and you're more intellectually vacuous ways
of justifying your torture and killing.
