| My book, started 20 May 2006, about my views on this so-called reality. Education, as it is, is neither defective nor poorly developed. It is, however, designed to help enforce social divisions of workers. The system is quite efficient at teaching the core competencies for the working classes in a Capitalistic economy. Precisely, it is geared towards teaching indifference, judge mental behavior, quantitatively thinking and a cold lock down of emotional breadth of response. These four core competencies are an essential ingredient of a materialistic culture which is focused on producing sellable goods and services, which taxes and interest fees spread out over millions to impoverish the majority and make the wealthy wealthier. First, lets talk about definitions. Wealth is defined, here, as anything that can be controlled but be subject to resistance. Assets are wealth that can be used towards some business goal, while a non-sellable picture may constitute as simply wealth. A democratic vote is based on the idea each person will have to live with the final decision. A scholar who asserts that some ideas have better thinking than others may be correct in that the errant viewpoint held by the subject is not founded in documented research. However, it is the population that will have to live with their voted decisions, not the paper the research was printed upon. In other words, a vote is about agreeing to abide by a decision that upsets the least number of people, not to find a the most educated decision. Indeed, the vote is to be among all people, not just educated people; common people and educated person's goals do not always match. The first competency is indifference. This is a mentality that allows workers to ignore each other, and each other's hardships. This is implemented in the psyche of the masses by making things “fair” and by making each student's success or failure seem disconnected to other students. So called “fairness” is about justifying something that is harmful by harming “everyone.” Really, though, “everyone” is just a group, and, as groups go, is often limited in scope. Here, “everyone” refers to students in a particular state, and perhaps nationally, but most certainly not inclusive of everyone everywhere, such as homeschoolers, other countries, alternative schools, and the like. Judgmental behavior is about measuring everything to sees its relevance, or lack thereof, to what one expects or wants. Indeed, often a person wants what they expect, hence it is familiar and often seems “normal” to them. Businesses people measure their objects of exploitation by determining if the employee can do the best job for the money, or if they contract will be the best for them financially. Most business people do not care much of other axises than that of money and profits. For them, there is a shallow state of being where life is reduced to numbers and the joy of life is eroded and attacked.
It is quite common for a person in a capitalistic economy to work for the sake of money; to let money be their god and master; to surrender and yield their soul in exchange for some numbers in a bank. This is a consequence of judgmental behavior. The alternative to judgmental behaviors is to accept opportunities as they are, as chances to learn and give back to others, not to constantly look for every little chance to make a few dollars. Quantitative thinking is simply the process of taking ideas and assigning numerical values to them. Granted, this allows for fairly reliable systems of predicting physical realities and behaviors of groups. However, the usefulness is not unlimited. There is a serious drawback to quantitative thinking: it can help set in place assumptions that should be at least challenged, or perhaps totally abandoned. An example of an assumptions that should be challenged is that eating meat is a healthy part of a balanced diet, or that immunizations are useful to prevent disease, or that sodium fluoride is healthful in the human body, or that people do better living alone in apartments, or that we inherited the earth instead of we are borrowing it from our children, or that confidentiality is healthy for comfort in society, or that marijuana should be kept illegal, or that prisons should punish instead of rehabilitate, or that the United States should send troops to “patrol” the boarder with Mexico, or that the militarizes of the world are useful, or that nuclear weapons are healthy for a nation to have, or that paper is necessary to produce instead of computerizing literature, or that paper currency is favorable over an electronic digital currency, or that “God” must be proved or disproved instead of loving one another unconditionally, or that advances in science are a better use of taxpayer money than advances in humane communities to live and work, or that it is necessary to make some people very rich and many a working class and some people very poor. Assumptions may be building blocks to try to predict the future, but may also limit the accurate perception of how reality is today and is changing to for tomorrow
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