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These people don't see the evils of indoctrination? Teach history. Teach cause and effect and show the results. Then let people decide for themselves. This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn't helping anyone at all.
Americans think it's normal to pledge allegiance to a flag in school, they thank people for "their service" Indoctrination has been happening the whole time and it works.
I don't do either of those things anymore. I barely want to stand for the national anthem. Our military worship in this country is basically taken on a cult like energy.
Don't many countries do this?
Like North Korea
I had a two exchange students from Germany one time. I, and a couple students, stood up for the pledge of allegiance. I asked the German students if the whole thing felt a little Heil-ish. They both sighed and nodded, they told me they had talked about it, but didn't want to bring it up and make things awkward.
And I don't think anyone should say "thank you for your service" to mercenaries.
Agreed.
wp:Bellamy salute
They are afraid people will decide they don't really like a .01% hording 50% of the worlds wealth like dragons in their lairs on piles of gold.
Billionaire apologists can fuck off.
If billionaires fucked off, our economy would hardly be the worse for it (provided we didn't panic).
The more you learn about history, the more you realize you don't know. Very difficult to "just teach history" when you're talking about an unfathomable number of people making an unfathomable number of decisions with unclear cause and effect.
What you learn in school is a very high level and narrow reading of events, largely informed by documents and transcriptions preserved by the wealthiest people in a region.
The only thing that can ever come out of that kind of historical study is nationalist jingoism of one flavor or another.
The purpose of public education history classes is to craft a shared national identity.
Dumbing down events and telling people what to think is a simple and effective way of achieving that end.
It's not a matter of helping people in general, it's a matter of helping these people maintain power and control.