One of the things that irked me most about pooblick edyookaishun was the lack of choice. You have to do what the school is set up to teach, you get NOTHING else. If your school has no program to teach piloting and aircraft, sorry. It's your parent's fault for taking jobs away from such a skool. If you wanted to play lacrosse instead of 'touch' football, too bad. We don't do lacrosse at this skool. If you are stuck in a school with a farming program but no art, you're luckier than most skoolz cuz you can, at the very least, learn something useful even if you'd rather study art. Whatever you wanted, the skoolz had it, but always someplace else.
Most skoolz have such weak programs as to effectively not have any programs at all.
The reasons are threefold:
One, they won't hire teachers who know real stuff. They'll hire some low-IQ woman who has a degree in nothing (a major in Edyookaishun), which they claim means she can teach anything. This simply is not the case. I am a subject matter expert in both History and in military matters; teachers often have little or no expertise in a subject; they claim they can do just fine with a few lesson plans, some pre-fab condensed notes, and no love of the subject matter. This simply does not work. Expertise is required to instruct.
Two: The skoolz also know that if they do more than give lip-service to such programs as they claim they offer, then they'll have to actually teach kids to do real stuff. Real stuff means real standards. Some kids will fail. No one can fail. Reality is to be avoided, just as Wall Street pretends the casino-market isn't rigged so they always win while the rest of us lose. The skoolz pretend they 'prepare kids for life' when all they do is waste time and resources in a great sham, a mighty grift making Somali bandits look like honest men. They must continue The Great Lie. Doing otherwise risks cognitive dissonance, and, like the market, reality crashing down on their sham will create social shockwaves and suffering.
And the last reason: helpless people need help. And who is there to lend a hand? Gubbamint. The same organization that created a skool system utterly incapbable of schooling children. Maliciously intended or not, the gubbamint does a fine job of disempowering and even psychologically disabling the children entrusted to its care.
85% of adults will not crack a book open after High School, not once for the rest of their lives. That's a marker of real resentment, in my opinion, or a marker of the success of the gubbamint schools at disabling the kids they processed.
We need to end all compulsory slave training passed off as state education. It cannot be permitted to continue to deprive children of real learning.
“Politics is Power and the Arts will follow- like science it follows the money and vibe“apocryphal, attributable to the Pontifex Maximus of the Trump (formerly Kennedy) Center.
“Put down the pen 🖊️ 🚫 and pick up the sword “🗡️- grumpy veteran
“When a man mentions Kultur, hand him a Tampon” - TLW
“When a man mentions TFR, point a pistol at his nethers and inform him Nethers they will be, or were.” - TLW
If we really are serious about the bonds and the thick skin, check out my novels: a crime trilogy taking on mass shootings, the Epstein underworld, and the basic psychosis of cultural dysfunction. And a banger of a dystopia.
The problem with Lancelot and Guinevere is the whole adultery thing, not the antithesis between chivalry and romance. The idea that you can be a good knight and a good husband was settled in the first non-British Arthurian romance of Erec and Enide.
“What assistance, fellow warriors, can we hope for from God, we who, while His churches are perishing, not only do not come to their defense, but do not even put forward any word of objection?”
Bravo, Billionaire Psycho! A brilliant analysis. Do you know about The Classical Society? It’s new and was founded by Alex Petkas of the Cost of Glory podcast. You should join!
One of the things that irked me most about pooblick edyookaishun was the lack of choice. You have to do what the school is set up to teach, you get NOTHING else. If your school has no program to teach piloting and aircraft, sorry. It's your parent's fault for taking jobs away from such a skool. If you wanted to play lacrosse instead of 'touch' football, too bad. We don't do lacrosse at this skool. If you are stuck in a school with a farming program but no art, you're luckier than most skoolz cuz you can, at the very least, learn something useful even if you'd rather study art. Whatever you wanted, the skoolz had it, but always someplace else.
Most skoolz have such weak programs as to effectively not have any programs at all.
The reasons are threefold:
One, they won't hire teachers who know real stuff. They'll hire some low-IQ woman who has a degree in nothing (a major in Edyookaishun), which they claim means she can teach anything. This simply is not the case. I am a subject matter expert in both History and in military matters; teachers often have little or no expertise in a subject; they claim they can do just fine with a few lesson plans, some pre-fab condensed notes, and no love of the subject matter. This simply does not work. Expertise is required to instruct.
Two: The skoolz also know that if they do more than give lip-service to such programs as they claim they offer, then they'll have to actually teach kids to do real stuff. Real stuff means real standards. Some kids will fail. No one can fail. Reality is to be avoided, just as Wall Street pretends the casino-market isn't rigged so they always win while the rest of us lose. The skoolz pretend they 'prepare kids for life' when all they do is waste time and resources in a great sham, a mighty grift making Somali bandits look like honest men. They must continue The Great Lie. Doing otherwise risks cognitive dissonance, and, like the market, reality crashing down on their sham will create social shockwaves and suffering.
And the last reason: helpless people need help. And who is there to lend a hand? Gubbamint. The same organization that created a skool system utterly incapbable of schooling children. Maliciously intended or not, the gubbamint does a fine job of disempowering and even psychologically disabling the children entrusted to its care.
85% of adults will not crack a book open after High School, not once for the rest of their lives. That's a marker of real resentment, in my opinion, or a marker of the success of the gubbamint schools at disabling the kids they processed.
We need to end all compulsory slave training passed off as state education. It cannot be permitted to continue to deprive children of real learning.
“Politics is Power and the Arts will follow- like science it follows the money and vibe“apocryphal, attributable to the Pontifex Maximus of the Trump (formerly Kennedy) Center.
“Put down the pen 🖊️ 🚫 and pick up the sword “🗡️- grumpy veteran
“When a man mentions Kultur, hand him a Tampon” - TLW
“When a man mentions TFR, point a pistol at his nethers and inform him Nethers they will be, or were.” - TLW
All of the past has been reduced to ash, the present is moldy, yet they say the future is a bright paradise.
Excellent essay — thank you very much. Happy New Year — and Godspeed.
We don’t have a few decades, cease writing of battles: instead fight them or vanish.
If we really are serious about the bonds and the thick skin, check out my novels: a crime trilogy taking on mass shootings, the Epstein underworld, and the basic psychosis of cultural dysfunction. And a banger of a dystopia.
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Not-Yes-Jonathan-Epps-ebook/dp/B0FSNG9MYV?ref_=ast_author_mpb
“Critique was smoothed by bounds of friendship. . .” bonds?
The problem with Lancelot and Guinevere is the whole adultery thing, not the antithesis between chivalry and romance. The idea that you can be a good knight and a good husband was settled in the first non-British Arthurian romance of Erec and Enide.
Good post. I’d like to recommend The Sand Pebbles (1966) for your list.
“What assistance, fellow warriors, can we hope for from God, we who, while His churches are perishing, not only do not come to their defense, but do not even put forward any word of objection?”
TAKE THE CROSS
Bravo, Billionaire Psycho! A brilliant analysis. Do you know about The Classical Society? It’s new and was founded by Alex Petkas of the Cost of Glory podcast. You should join!