Aug 12 2009
College of Knowledge - Know Your Rights
College of Knowledge - Know Your Rights
As some Aboriginal friends are wont to say, “edumacation is brainwashing”. The pursuit of information can sometimes lead to an appreciation of knowledge, but most education systems in the early third millennium appear to be vocational guidance courses, designed for the pursuit of jobs and profits - not the enrichment of the mind. Most of today’s schools and ‘higher’ education intstitutiuons are training centers whose courses are decided by corporate interests to train people for jobs that won’t be there when they graduate.
Students and teachers are also becoming notoriously corrupt; future doctors and lawyers/politicians are cheating their way through, aided and abetted by institutions that turn a blind eye to gain their needed unholy dollars. Public funding is disappearing, after all. And consumer = sucker, certainly to corporations and most governments. It’s an insult to be branded a “consumer” - people are, after all, also producers of the world’s wealth. Unknown to most, we are signatories to the UN International Bill of Rights, which gives us the right to a phone call, equal pay etc - though we’re not told that this is why the government has been so ‘kind’ to us.
On the other hand, as the great American revolutionary said, “Those who are willing to give up their freedoms to guarantee their security deserve neither.” The Oz Constitution is useless as a substitute for a Bill of Rights. Just as well the world already has a half-decent one… See http://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm - Know Your Rights as a Human! Belief is for shmucks, like faith - only morons believe something without proof. There’s no point proving to you that other intelligences are here - you’d simply forget the evidence next week anyway. So keep on being factory and office fodder, using your time without imagination while we continue to run your civilization for you - without you even noticing. The awareness of most domesticated primates is so fractured and temporary - it’s only necessary to communicate with the very rare bright ones that pop themselves up from the miasm humanity has for a mind.
Keep it up.
