By Andy King
Let me tell you how I feel about elections. They don’t matter. We are voting to make ourselves feel better. We are not solving problems based on our core belief systems by supporting a candidate who is our avatar in Washington. If you think you are, please take a go at Russian roulette with a semi-automatic.
If they in Washington were your avatar, how much would they make a year? Does an associate at Walmart get to retire after four years of poor performance and pull a pension? Every time I hear a candidate say they are for Joe the Plumber, I wonder how much of their salary or retirement will be diverted to support social programs.
And…can I give myself a raise at work? No. Who can, and why aren’t their salaries based on the price of grain anymore? If you don’t know, go read a middle school book on government…if they exist anymore. Focus on the legislative system.
Which brings us to education. What do we learn in school now and why do we have a television show that raises the question is an adult “Smarter Than a Fifth Grader“? And NOBODY ever wins!! Let’s go on television and attest to how retarded we are to the world.
This is what we get when quality of education is based on monetary systems. If schooling can be purchased, and is not SOLELY a merit-based system, rich people with slow children will continue to be in higher education. People with degrees may or may not have any ability, but when we have an educational system that forces a FLATLINE system, read No Child Left Behind, what we are really saying is that we want everyone equally educated.
Well, people with Down syndrome may not be destined to be rocket scientists. Does that mean we need to only educate our future rocket scientists to the fifth-grade level? Or is what we really need a less tolerant educational system that is more merit-based and less monetarily-based? Why is it that the Asian students we get in America are generally viewed as more gifted than other nationalities? And why are they here? Because they did not make it into THEIR domestic merit-based education system.
We are creating a less intelligent people as a nation. Shouldn’t we just allow students to excel if they want to…instead of forcing the more intelligent students to sit through ridiculous classes with 15 minutes of education and an hour of repetition? No, they need to be less intellectually active and physically active. Intellectually and physically active people tend to REVOLT when they continually get screwed.
Which brings us to obesity. Is it the fault of heavy people that they are heavy? I don’t know. The 2,000-calorie Happy Meals sure don’t help. And food filled with growth hormones sure isn’t getting us anywhere other than gestating 12-year-olds. But a two-day forced march with insurgency at the end is a little difficult if 80 percent of the population is overweight, dumb and complacent. Enter the social programs.
OK, maybe i should calm down a little, or maybe everybody else just needs to get a little more pissed off.
Learn to build a firearm.
Be able to run a mile or two.
Understand how perverse the legal system and governance has become.
Read a book on sociology. May I point to John Perkins’ books: “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” and “Secret History of the American Empire?”
Why does the world hate us, and for how long will we not hate our ruling class enough to take action?
At least be ready.
2 Comments
November 14, 2008 at 2:34 pm
No truer words were spoken or is it printed. Great job, much respect. If only people listened!
November 26, 2008 at 11:36 am
Many good and valid points, Andy. It’s my opinion that it all comes back to personal responsibility and accountability. Students are responsible for their own learning – it’s not Mom’s fault or the teacher’s fault, or the school’s fault, or the government’s fault when they graduate from high school unable to read and write. Obviously, these students should not be graduating, but on whose head should it rest that they never learned to read and write? Clearly, it is no fault but their own.
Responsibility and accountability apply to politics and health as well. . .but then who is it that enforces responsibility and accountability? That, in my opinion, is where our social system has failed.