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Warehousing Humans by Rick Fisk
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| Trancer-X |
This article makes a lot of sense if you're able to look past all of the subterfuge in order to see the big picture. I think that it's more than mere coincidence that people are being dumbed down. I think that it's really just a part of a broader campaign designed to control humanity, a campaign which appears to be working.
Warehousing Humans
by Rick Fisk
Lew Rockwell
The words "The United States of America" carries different meanings depending on who you ask for definitions. One common thread is found in U.S. institutions. Social Security, the Military, The Supreme Court, prisons, hospitals, welfare. These institutions define what it is to be in the United States for better or for worse. Some, like family, public school and daycare are not necessarily government institutions, but they tend to define Americans both figuratively and literally.
One cannot help but be shaped by institutions if one is associated with those institutions during formative years.
Public schools were marketed to the electorate of the several states as a way to provide a superior education, yet the promise hasn't been met. The literacy rate has plummeted, private property has essentially been abolished and what we've really been given is warehouses for our children. Children do not learn much at government schools but at least somebody is taking care of them while we go to work to pay our property taxes, income taxes and sales taxes."The production of monsters – helpless, twisted monsters whose normal development has been stunted – goes on all around us. But the modern heirs of the comprachicos are smarter and subtler. They do not hide, they practice their trade in the open, the results are invisible. In the past this horrible surgery left traces on a child's face, not in his mind. Today it leaves traces in his mind, not on his face. In both cases the child is not aware of the mutilation he has suffered. Today's comprachicos do not use narcotic powders. They take a child before he is fully aware of reality and never let him develop that awareness. Where nature put a normal brain, they put mental retardation. To make you unconscious for life by means of your own brain, nothing could be more ingenious. They are the comprachicos of the mind. They do not place a child into a vase to adjust his body to its contours. They place him into a school to adjust him to society."
- Ayn Rand, The New Left, 1971 Since the 70's when the two-income family began to be the rule rather than the exception, a new institution has become part of our lexicon: daycare. Where we used to whisk away children to kindergarten, we now send them away as early as 4 months so that mommy can go back to work. The single-parent household has also increased the demand for this institution, facilitated by another defining institution – the no-fault, State divorce. Let's not forget the rejection of marriage. Many children are born to single mothers who have rejected marriage as a religious or state institution. So they sometimes rely on another institution: welfare.
Over time, this warehousing of children has had several downstream effects. Now we are warehousing our old people. Why not? Like our refuse which just goes away somewhere to some nondescript and out-of-sight location, state-run and private "senior care" facilities have enjoyed a boom and become the refuse heap of the wisest in our societies. This not only represents our degraded level of respect toward the elderly, it separates our children from the elderly, thereby increasing the dehumanizing effects of these human warehouses.
It is a natural consequence of being warehoused as children.
The bond built by families that spent most of their waking hours together has been severed by our reliance on social institutions and programs – daycare, public schools, social security and elderly care facilities.
The Amish are one of the few groups that stood against Public Schools and Social Security; arguing against the latter for the reason that it was their moral duty to care for their own elderly. Allowing the Federal Government authority in this matter would be a corruptive influence and weaken their own social and moral obligations to their own families and the God they worshiped. The Congress in 1965, when creating Lyndon Johnson's Medicare, exempted the Amish from paying into Social Security after a long and embarrassing battle between the IRS and Valentine Byler.
The Amish take care of both young and elderly without the aid of warehousing or government handouts. By and large, their culture and society has remained strong while those who have succumbed to the modern conveniences (connivances) and "benefits" doled out by our new parental guardians are shuffling off children and old-folks into warehouses and ironically, generally perplexed by the social decline they witness.
The weakened family bond created by our social institutions and government handouts has resulted in weak families. In turn, this has resulted in weak communities, weak states and a very strong central government which controls virtually everything we do while promoting the claim that we are the freest nation on earth.
By now, a large majority of us have experienced an elderly care facility. With no real purpose left in life but to play bingo and sign over their benefit checks to the facility's fiduciaries, the elderly do not last long once they've been admitted, at least, not in my experience. My own grandparents lasted about 2 years. Thankfully, my grandparents were 99 and 88 at the time of their admittance and had already lived long and fruitful lives. When my grandfather died, he was just shy of his 101st birthday. But to give you an idea of the breathtaking quickness of his demise, at 99 he had taken both the written and the driving test in his state and passed with flying colors. That might scare you but he was quite a good driver. He surprised me. Less than a year after he entered the nursing home he could barely walk, much less drive.
I have heard the claim time and time again that people really want to go into nursing homes. The care is good, or so they say, and this eliminates the burden on families. After all, when both parents have to work in order to keep paying their income taxes, credit card, mortgages, car loans, college loans and property taxes, there's no time left to keep the family together and there's certainly no place for an elderly relative.
It would be easy to just write this off as the result of a generally debased morality. However, there's more to this than meets the eye. Not only do our government institutions corrupt our morals, there is a corruption of our currency which not only makes these institutions possible to finance, but virtually impossible to avoid if you are part of the middle class or working poor.
It's ironic then that our belief in these systems has been based upon the premise that they are part of our collective moral obligation. Nothing could be further from the truth. These institutions corrupt our morals and restrict our rights to self-determination and practice of our religions. The realm of faith has been passed to government. Do you lack faith that your God will help you? Turn to the one true God that can: government.
You aren't instructed that by turning to these institutions, you have to give up any rights to direct your child's moral development, give up your rights to own property, know for certain the value of your money and how long you may practice your profession.
Furthermore, if you are a U.S. Citizen who relies upon social security payments, you can rest assured that the inflationary increases in your benefits will never keep up with the true inflation that is occurring due to a Federal Reserve and a Congress which won't ever give up its golden goose: The Federal Reserve.
Retirees now are leaving the country in order that their dollars will actually buy them the goods and services required to provide them shelter, food and medical care. Contrary to what some say about the wonderful nursing facilities in this country, the elderly are tending to opt out. They don't want to be warehoused. We are losing one of our most valuable resources. Forced to drop out of society, the elderly can sit around and wait to die, or move somewhere they are appreciated and valued. Many are going to Mexico and South America rather than Florida or some nursing home close to their families only to get a visit once a month.
At one time, our elderly lived with us, we cared for them and our children and communities reaped the benefits of their wisdom. Those who were institutionalized as children have been taught by example that this is the normal way to handle humans who are hard to deal with. Just look at our drug laws. We throw non-violent drug offenders into our prisons more often than we throw violent criminals there. Huge corporations have grown up to provide management of our institutions. It's a very big business and if we do not do something to break the cycle, we may find that there is no space between high school and the nursing home where we are not warehoused somewhere. Perhaps we'll all be working for the Post Office or the Ministry of Peace in Iraq during those years.
Our institutions have been forced upon us. Nobody from this generation was given the option of avoiding them or rejecting their validity. The government and old media keep trying to placate us by claiming that we are incapable of planning for our futures or educating our children, but I don't recall anyone ever telling us that the price would be far more than the phony federal reserve notes withheld from our paychecks each pay period. The true costs, in both figurative and literal terms, were never disclosed.
The whole system is corrupt and immoral and is built to trap all of us. It has been about seven generations since public schools were instituted. It only took one generation before the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax were enacted. Within the second generation of our public school system, the FDA, FCC, Social Security and a federal gun ban passed. It is my belief that these never would have become reality were it not for public schools. Karl Marx was a member of the first generation of Prussian public school graduates. It should be no surprise then that the same system in the U.S. would produce similar results.
It's obviously possible to raise children with strong moral values in spite of their public schooling. Look at Ron Paul's family for instance. However, this is the exception rather than the rule. We are told that public schools preserve our "future." But perhaps the people pushing this idea envision a future much darker than is implied by the propaganda.
We need to envision a future that sees public institutions as the exception rather than the rule. I see that future in the candidacy of Ron Paul. Ron Paul has been one of the few to even suggest that our public institutions, especially the Federal Reserve and the Income tax restrict our rights and are both philosophically and morally bankrupt. The rest of the field do not even acknowledge the corrupt nature of these institutions much less suggest that they be abolished. In fact, on the Republican side of the isle, we are told that more government regulation is required to protect the institution of marriage and family.
Any more protection of family and marriage might just be the death of both.
Rick Fisk is a 45-year-old software developer and entrepreneur. He is married, has 3 children and resides in Austin, TX.
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| venomX |
| Is it not more reasonable to assume that the only reason the world (i.e., mostly americans) are being dumbed down is because of crappy education systems. The peoples of countries in development are becoming smarter and more informed, not dumber and less informed. So if this truly is a plan to undermine and control the population of the whole world it is failing miserably my friend. It would be more poignant to talk about the US population being dumbed down, and lets face it its mostly because your education system is horrible. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
The truth is that people will remain ignorant as long as they can afford to be. Most people are not attracted to knowledge "for its own sake," but as an instrument that will give them some practical benefit.
Ignorance is longer deadly, since we have lots of support systems in place and food is trivially easy to come by; and ignorance is not much of a social disaster, either, since people generally care more about being entertained than being educated. Knowing a lot is a sign of being a nerd, not quite the class marker that it used to be.
If you are at least minimally competent at doing something, polite, not too dirty or smelly, and entertaining to be around, you can go quite a long way in life while still remaining very ignorant. People recognize this. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by venomX
Is it not more reasonable to assume that the only reason the world (i.e., mostly americans) are being dumbed down is because of crappy education systems. The peoples of countries in development are becoming smarter and more informed, not dumber and less informed. So if this truly is a plan to undermine and control the population of the whole world it is failing miserably my friend. It would be more poignant to talk about the US population being dumbed down, and lets face it its mostly because your education system is horrible. |
I wish that you were right but I find that hardly reasonable and I feel that you'd be quite naive to think that especially when given the fact that it's been stated as one of their objectives.
This is why I've encouraged everyone to watch the video that I posted ([[ LINK REMOVED ]]
) where G. Edward Griffin interviews Norman Dodd, a former staff director on the Reece Committee who lays out his findings rather eloquently. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
The truth is that people will remain ignorant as long as they can afford to be. Most people are not attracted to knowledge "for its own sake," but as an instrument that will give them some practical benefit.
Ignorance is longer deadly, since we have lots of support systems in place and food is trivially easy to come by; and ignorance is not much of a social disaster, either, since people generally care more about being entertained than being educated. Knowing a lot is a sign of being a nerd, not quite the class marker that it used to be.
If you are at least minimally competent at doing something, polite, not too dirty or smelly, and entertaining to be around, you can go quite a long way in life while still remaining very ignorant. People recognize this. |
The problem is that we've never been able to afford ignorance because ultimately it comes at the expense of individual freedom.
We've simply been tricked into becoming complacent (and/or compliant) through a collective feeling of security which is quickly proving itself to be nothing more than a false sense of one. |
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| Trancer-X |
Deliberately dumbing us down
Published: December 2,1999 Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Posted on 12/02/1999 12:38:03 PST by Stand Watch Listen
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey's School and Society, published in 1899, set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's Why Johnny Can't Read, published in 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why the decline in public education was taking place.
But Iserbyt has done what no one else wanted or could do. She has put together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing down" of American children by their education system. Anyone who has had any lingering hope that what the educators have been doing is a result of error, accident, or stupidity will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
This mammoth book is the size of a large city phone book: 462 pages of documentation, 205 pages of appendices, and a 48-page Index. The documentation is "A Chronological Paper Trail" which starts with the Sowing of the Seeds in the late 18th and 19th centuries, proceeds to The Turning of the Tides, then to The Troubling Thirties, The Fomentation of the Forties and Fifties, The Sick Sixties, The Serious Seventies, The "Effective" Eighties, and finally, the Noxious Nineties. The educators and social engineers indict themselves with their own words.
Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a "resister" to what is going on in American education, she was being constantly told that she was taking things out of context. The book, she writes, "was put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components which led to the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled in chronological order -- in writing. Even I, who had observed these weird activities taking place at all levels of government, was reluctant to accept a malicious intent behind each individual, chronological activity or innovation, unless I could connect it with other, similar activities taking place at other times."
And that is what this book does. It connects educators, social engineers, planners, government grants, federal and state agencies, billion-dollar foundations, think tanks, universities, research projects, policy organizations, etc., showing how they have worked together to advance an agenda that will change America from a free republic to a socialist state.
What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.
One of the interesting insights revealed by these documents is how the social engineers use a deliberately created education "crisis" to move their agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold to the public as fixing the crisis -- which they never do. The new reforms simply set the stage for the next crisis, which provides the pretext for the next move forward. This is the dialectical process at work, a process our behavioral engineers have learned to use very effectively. Its success depends on the ability of the "change agents" to continually deceive the public, which tends to believe any lie the experts tell them.
Iserbyt's long journey to becoming a "resister," started in 1973 when her son, a fourth grader, brought home from school a purple ditto sheet, embellished with a smiley face, entitled, "All About Me." She writes, "The questions were highly personal; so much so that they encouraged my son to lie, since he didn't want to 'spill the beans' about his mother, father and brother. The purpose of such a questionnaire was to find out the student's state of mind, how he felt, what he liked and disliked, and what his values were. With this knowledge it would be easier for the government school to modify his values and behavior at will -- without, of course, the student's knowledge or his parents' consent."
From that time on, Iserbyt became an activist in education. She became a member of a philosophy committee for a school, was elected as a school board member, co-founded Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM), and finally became senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education during President Reagan's first term of office.
As a school board member she learned that in American education, the end justifies the means. "Our change agent superintendent," she writes, "was more at home with a lie than he was with the truth." Whatever good she accomplished while on the school board was tossed out two weeks after she left office.
It was during her tenure in the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., where she had access to the grant proposals from change agents, that she came to the conclusion that what was happening in American education was the result of a concerted effort on the part of numerous individuals and organizations -- a globalist elite -- to bring about permanent changes in America's body politic. She was relieved of her duties after leaking an important technology grant -- a computer-assisted instruction proposal -- to the press.
Another reason why Iserbyt decided to publish this book is because of the reluctance of Americans to face unpleasant truths about their government educators. She wants parents to have access to the kinds of documents that were only circulated among the change agent educators themselves. She wants parents to see for themselves what has been planned for their children and the kind of socialist-fascist world their children will have to live in if we do nothing to counter these plans.
Therefore, getting this book into the hands of thousands of Americans ought to be a major project for lovers of liberty in the year 2000. It will do more to defeat the change agents than anything else I can think of.
Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on education, including "Is Public Education Necessary?" and "The Whole Language/OBE Fraud," published by The Paradigm Company, 208-322-4440. His reading instruction program, "Alpha-Phonics," is available by writing The Tutoring Company, P.O. Box 540111, Waltham, MA 02454-0111
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3846d8ab444a.htm
| quote: | About Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (the author of the previously referenced book)
Former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the US Department of Education under President Reagan, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is considered one of America's top whistle blowers against the sovietization of the American educational system. Iserbyt was the research analyst and co-founder of the Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She is best known for her booklets Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum (1985), Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad (1989), and the deliberate dumbing down of America... A Chronological Paper Trail (1999).
Why Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is important to the ideals of freedom: Early in the 1960s Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt recognized the profound transformation of American education from a learning based system of locally controlled schools providing future generations of concerned and aware American citizens to a behavior modification system designed to churn out unthinking, uncritical "citizens of the world" trained to accept socialism. She continues to this day to write articles and grant radio interviews warning Americans of their loss of freedoms to the State and corporate fascism.
"They are taking our form of government -- Congress did this in the '90s with this legislation where they effectively changed our free system of government to a planned economy. A planned economy is not a free system at all. And if Americans think it is, they ought to go down to Cuba and take a look. In my opinion nothing short of abolishing the U.S. Department of Education will take care of this problem. And that means not back to the state level but back to the local level."
- Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt http://www.dfn.org/printer_af_Iserbyt.shtml |
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| Magnetonium |
Very very interesting information. I'm gonna buy that Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt book ;-) |
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