Reaping the Whirlwind

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   For eighty-five years American parents, especially, have largely abdicated their responsibilities and let bureaucrats decide what goes into their children’s heads. It can be no surprise that what has been coming out of them lately is hatred and scorn for those parents and their values and traditions.

   THROUGHOUT MOST OF MY CAREER as a writer, I have had two chief areas of interest (aside from my overarching focus on promoting a widespread and accurate understanding of American law). The first and foremost has been the nature and limits of the power of taxation allowed to government. The second has been the danger of “public” (that is, State) education of children.

   And danger it is. As was famously said by Vladimir Lenin, “Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.” The same dynamic plays out with anyone else into whose hands are entrusted malleable young minds, and there is no safety from the resulting harm in the simple fact that those hands belong to what is imagined to be a benevolent state.

   “Content neutrality” is a myth.  Indeed, the mere idea that content could be neutral (or, at least, that the state would deliver neutral content) is itself an ideological position, the transmission of which influences the perception of all things in the mind of its recipient. Further, the state, given the role of educator, inevitably imprints upon children a view of itself as not only benevolent, but also necessary, and an authority figure to be believed and obeyed, as well as honored.

   But of course, “education” doesn’t stop with state idolatry. History, economics, civics, literature and all aspects of the manner in which people interact are within the scope of the education project. Each of these areas — by which are established a person’s broad understanding of the world — are susceptible to manipulation in service to a preferred view and inescapably must be so manipulated. As observed above, “content neutrality” is a myth.

   However much you or I may think that our preferred view of any given subject of concern is the objectively correct view, there are others who feel differently — or are prepared to behave as though they do, in any event.  It is no surprise that when we put our vulnerable children into the hands of others for imprinting, it is the preferred view of those others which ends up being imprinted instead of the views of the childrens’  parents.

   To so deliver our children to the hands and influences of others, of whose preferred views we have little direct knowledge and over whose decisions in molding our children we have little direct control is to cast those seeds — from which the next generation of neighbors (and voters) will arise — to the wind, to grow outside our careful guidance and nurturing.

   OVER THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS PLUS, multiple generations of American children have been turned over in their tens of millions to imprinting by state apparatchiks. Each day that these children spent or now spend being filled with the preferred views of these bureaucratic functionaries (calling them “teachers” changes nothing about their roles) is a day in which the parents of these children have abdicated authority over what sort of adult will emerge.

   With each such generation, the boldness of those into whose hands these children have been entrusted has grown, and the radicalism of their departure from the views of each generation of parents has increased, as well.  Both evolutions go largely unremarked and each of those generations of parents are themselves more complacent in relinquishing their children to the state for indoctrination, because they have been conditioned to a favorable view of the state during their own time in its hands.

   Now, our schools at all levels steadily manufacture “social justice warriors”  entirely ignorant and scornful of the careful underpinnings of the civilization that has thus far protected them from the barbarisms of slavery and impoverishment. These children, who remain children even as they mimic adults in appearance and power, are clueless of the delusions and dynamics successfully deployed to ruinously rule all people at all times before Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence with its underpinnings of individual sovereignty and true rule of law, emancipating the founding generation from ownership by kings and priests, and setting the stage for the emancipation of everyone from all such subjugations.

   And so, we reap the whirlwind.

   (There’s a solution, of course: Break the pattern and homeschool your children. (Learn more about that at https://losthorizons.com/homeschool/homeschooling.htm.) Encourage others to do the same, and though it may seem harsh, show no mercy in your criticisms of those who do not.  Parental sloth in this regard forges the chains your children will therefore wear in very short order.)

   “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
-Thomas Paine

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