Great post. Education is the huge missing link. Real education is understanding we are citizens of the world and in learning how to be great humans.
Education in the USA is in free fall. It isn’t difficult to imagine the indoctrination (called education) could be rather handily outdone by some injection of common sense.
Thanks, KW. It is not just the USA, but the West as a whole. France is really going down hill. It is all being dumbed down to keep the grade averages up.
Yes, thanks. Unfortunately, I and many others, are 100% aware it is the entire West. However, we must be aware, it is not solely the West who have participated in this. It was my mistake to have invoked the USA. Normally, and outside the limitations of a short comment, I would have described the entire Planet Earth as culpable for what has happened. Maybe I am wrong? But it appears the entire planet has been relegated to Gulag status. Many of us are fully aware it is an international corporatocracy at work here. This supranational gang of techno-kleptocrats, operating in sync, as a joined-at-the hip mafia organization are at fault. When we have a group of government, corporate, and institutional leaders who operate together in this way it normally is referred to as Fascism. We can quibble over Fascism vs totalitarianism but not the planetary part.
Good point of view, KW. Based on my 16 years living and working in China, I know it is not fascist or totalitarian, although the global capitalist world is rapidly descending in that direction.
If you have not read Sheldon Wolin's book, "Democracy, Inc.", I highly recommend it. In "The China Trilogy", I summarized his main points into a comparative table.
Great post. Education is the huge missing link. Real education is understanding we are citizens of the world and in learning how to be great humans.
Education in the USA is in free fall. It isn’t difficult to imagine the indoctrination (called education) could be rather handily outdone by some injection of common sense.
Thanks, KW. It is not just the USA, but the West as a whole. France is really going down hill. It is all being dumbed down to keep the grade averages up.
Yes, thanks. Unfortunately, I and many others, are 100% aware it is the entire West. However, we must be aware, it is not solely the West who have participated in this. It was my mistake to have invoked the USA. Normally, and outside the limitations of a short comment, I would have described the entire Planet Earth as culpable for what has happened. Maybe I am wrong? But it appears the entire planet has been relegated to Gulag status. Many of us are fully aware it is an international corporatocracy at work here. This supranational gang of techno-kleptocrats, operating in sync, as a joined-at-the hip mafia organization are at fault. When we have a group of government, corporate, and institutional leaders who operate together in this way it normally is referred to as Fascism. We can quibble over Fascism vs totalitarianism but not the planetary part.
Good point of view, KW. Based on my 16 years living and working in China, I know it is not fascist or totalitarian, although the global capitalist world is rapidly descending in that direction.
If you have not read Sheldon Wolin's book, "Democracy, Inc.", I highly recommend it. In "The China Trilogy", I summarized his main points into a comparative table.
Pax, Jeff
Very interesting how this is all playing out. The role of China with the WEF is fascinating.