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RE: Critical Thinking: The OTHER "National Deficit?"
"but do they actually teach the kids to think for themselves? How to reason? How to solve real world problems?"
Judging by the preponderance of comments on my posts....I'd say absolutely not! :-)
And I think that the situation has evolved far beyond where it was when your History professor made his observation. I suspect that a culling of the herd is now intended.
I expect you may be right... and I have heard others talk about the "culling of the herd" idea, but I find myself questioning which herd we're talking about. A lot of western nations are already "culling themselves" by reaching a negative growth rate.
Greece, for example... the Greek population has been declining for a while and is evidently forecast to do so for a while. Japan will lose an estimated 40 million off its population in the next 50 years. So what kind of culling will it be, I wonder? Is it already happening? Are the people in the "Tinfoil Hat Brigade" who are hiding from chemtrails actually onto something?
I keep thinking about the movie "Idiocracy" and wondering who stand to benefit from all the intelligence being sucked out of the population, and only the mindless sheeple are left behind. It seems like a short-sighted objective because who's going to run the show when the last brain dies?
I haven't seen "Idiocracy", but I have read C. S. Lewis’ 1946 novel That Hideous Strength. It was about the new technocratic elite. His argument was that the elite’s quest for power is at bottom satanic.
I conjecture that anyone who is not witness to a deliberate dumbing down of the population, and a deliberate weakening of family ties, and national cultures, probably suffers from just those efforts already beyond redemption.
Another eye opener for me as to what an ideological "elite" is capable of, and actually will do, was the book Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes.
"In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.
These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s architects as well as its “ordinary” soldiers and policemen, and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II."
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Death-SS-Einsatzgruppen-Invention-Holocaust/dp/0375708227/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518300868&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Einsatzsgruppen
Perhaps the collective downfall we suffer from is assuming that any "ideological elite" ultimately has their philosophy based in some version of rational sanity and long term survival. We look at things and "excuse" them to some degree, on the reasoning that "There HAS to be a good reason why they are doing this?"
More and more, I come to think that "because they can" might be the only reason, and THEY are no more capable of critical thinking than any of the ostensible sheeple they might be executing... failing to see that their very actions are also their own death warrant. And maybe they just don't care.