Going online has done more to disillusion me as to the product of American culture of the post-war period than anything else I've ever seen. I'd say I'm disillusioned about the educational system but I think they're more a victim of it than a participant in the destruction of the minds of Americans. We've been through this before, if you want to see why people are stupid and both won't and so can't think, look at what they spend the most time doing. And it's not sitting in a classroom and it's most certainly not sitting in a church. It's watching TV and media planned and geared to trigger their attention at the lowest, most visceral level, appealing to their strongest weaknesses. And those weaknesses are inevitably those which the Jewish and especially the Christian scriptures warn against. I will grant that the encouragement to amorality in the law, in the general culture did flow from, especially, the most elite of universities which have always in the modern period been there to service primarily the desires of the rich who give them money and send their brats to get credentialing papers from them but certainly the faculties have large numbers of teachers who do care about at least their subject matter and, more generally, the morality of intellectual integrity. Not to mention those who go into teaching in public grade and high schools.
In short, I've been getting flack from college credentialed idiots who, finding they can't make a refutation of what was said, they start flinging any old line. More on this later. I'm sure.
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