“But what is REAL LEARNING?” My desperate question, in graduate school.

November 8, 2023

Back when I was in graduate school, after about a year of the usual indoctrination I began to ask, in earnest; in fact, desperate: “But what is REAL LEARNING?” Various “ideas” were continuously drumming into my head, each to be automatically slipped into a preset grid. I wanted to get rid of the grid. HOW? That’s a story for another time.

I voted against our new local school referendum yesterday. Though I had a faint hope that perhaps enough is enough (there was a school referendum last year, too), and the referendum would not pass, unfortunately, it did, by a very slim margin of 108 votes, out of 10,350 votes total cast. Which gives me hope. Nearly 50% of voters now have their thinking caps on! Nearly 50% in this town that is so one-party that only one district even featured a Republican candidate. Mine. I voted for him. He lost, by a margin of 85%.

Not that I’m Republican. What I would like to see is at least two parties present here, rather than the Democratic dictatorship that took over this town decades ago.

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/08/voters-approve-mccsc-referendum-to-increase-preschool-funding/71495153007/

Public schools turned into indoctrination centers a long time ago, especially with Obama’s “common core,” and recently made much worse by the inclusion of DEI, CRT, woke-transgender-pronoun nonsense.

 

Why do you think all the desks line up in straight lines? So you won’t get-out-of-line, that’s why.

Yeah, standardize everything, especially education, where it all begins, with vulnerable children who are easily molded. Plus: corporatize, wherever possible, to mold obedient workers. That’s the real goal of public education.

 

But something happened during the Covid Con, something wonderful and strange. One of its silver linings. (Another is the number of people who used those two silent lockdown years to review their entire lives and to ask what’s next?) The kids, stuck at home with “remote” learning, had their “education” opened up to their parents, thousands of whom were appalled. Thus:

No Longer Fringe: Home Schooling Revolution Is Reshaping American Education

Thomas Sowell would approve.

As would John Taylor Gatto:

And here, I would say, is the goal: continuous learning, growing, transformation. So that we never get caught long in dogmatic beLIEf systems — which then, when we oppose others different belief systems, lead sooner or later, to war;  rather, we utilize every experience as stimulus to learn, about our world, about ourselves, about their interaction which then, periodically, unfolds us into something entirely new, strange, and beautiful.

 

 

 

On the folly of “TAKING SIDES”: Kucinich, Eisenstein, Bernard Guenther

November 7, 2023

I remember when brave, foolish idealist Dennis Kucinich proposed a Department of Peace. That was way back in 2002. Twenty one years later, here we are, the phenomenon of war having grown so horrifically that there may actually be some kind of extraordinary shift, just now, in the making. See yesterday’s post.  Here’s Kucinich’s latest:

The Nothingness of War Consciousness

In May of this year, RFK Jr. chose Kucinich to be his campaign manager. But on October 13, a few days after RFK Jr. decided to run as an Independent, Kucinich resigned. Why? He won’t say. However, RFK Jr. himself does appear to have picked a side: Israel.

Charles Eisenstein hones in on the inevitable perils of choosing sides.

A Story Told A Hundred Thousand Times

I wonder: is Eisenstein still part of the RFK Jr. campaign?

Former “activist” Bernard Guenther, in a long post explaining why he doesn’t take sides, presents the transformation he himself went through, and points especially to the necessity for shadow work. Remember: The line between good and evil runs through the heart of every single one of us. Whenever we “take sides,” we lose whatever balance we have managed to create within ourselves, and thus become ripe for the taking of whatever forces from beyond are running this clown show that aims to continuously divide us to the point where we fission into isolated atoms, splitting into the void, blown hither and yonder with no meaning, no context, nothing. Yes. As Kucinich puts it, the nothingness of war consciousness.

MY VIEW ON THE ONGOING ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT (since some people keep asking me about it or literally attack me personally for not "taking a stand" and "speaking out")

First of all, last week, we had a podcast about that topic, where I already talked about it in depth [link… pic.twitter.com/BJsd8okMph

— Bernhard Guenther (@veilofreality) November 6, 2023