Chris: …I have made, and continue to make, a connectedness with life, living, and learning. Until this connection is properly made, I think school is a hurtful place.
DADDIO: I think we come INTO this world WITH that "connection" and public school does a superb job of making sure almost everybody loses it. This is primarily why I consider the U.S. public education system to be guilty of high treason, criminal negligence and is quite possibly involved in a conspiracy to enslave humantiy. I think its been made pretty clear that this institution, at the very best, is unbelievably ignorant of what goes into producing wholesome human beings and probably has no intentions of doing so, and, at worst, has systematically lulled us into a moral commatose from which we may never awake.
One look under the hood reveals a system that, by design, is masterful at churning out complacent, junk worshipping, nimrods incapable of abstract or independent, critical thought. From the most underpaid, overworked, ghetto born janitor to the best dressed, white cracker, on-the-take, millionaire politician; From the trailer park, jalopy driving, gun toting meth dealer to the ivory tower, know-it-all, sold out, corporate bullshitting "scientist", Americans – thanks to public education - are mental, emotional, and spiritual dipshits.
And the real shit-kicker is that everybody in the world knows it except us. Your average spoon-fed American jackass thinks we’re the pinnacle of humanity because he sees people on TV climbing over each other for the last cheeseburger at a Russian McDonalds. What phenomonal arrogance. If he only knew. There are many reasons why some people of certain nations pine after American icons, but, rest assured, a sincere admiration for Americans themselves is not one of them. The Russians love the cheeseburgers but other than shit like that, what else of any real substance does the everage Amercian have up on them? Culture? Not. Family? Not. Literature? Not. Genes? …….Please.
A Russian friend of mine has a 6 year old child that speaks fluent Russian and pretty good english. But, since English is his SECOND language, his American school teachers treat him like he’s retarted instead of the bilingual genius that he his. If he doesn’t speak English with an English accent, he must be mentally inferior – isn’t it obvious? Not to me it isn’t. The whole damn world is bilingual except us. WE’RE the pittied exception. HELLLLOOOooo. Europe and Russia look down there noses at our illiterate little sorry asses, as well they should. So, where do these moronic white trash slime we call "educators" get off belittling this six year old child for knowing more than THEY do?! Clear the room, I’m gonna hurl all over my highschool diploma before I wipe my butt with it.
The Chinese might want some of the illusion of freedom that we have, but they think we, as individuals are a boisterous, crass, rude, sorry joke. I hope they take over the U.S. and make us all eat nothing but rice and vegetables for a year. Maybe some of our 100 million lard asses will drop a few pounds and stop embarrassing us in front of the entire world.
And while they’re hard at work teaching us how to farm, practice medicine, and walk upright, we’d have absolutely nothing to lose by turning over our phony churches and Bible colleges to the Hindus, Budists, and Muslims who might, while kindly holding back tears of pitty and frustration, be able to teach us SOMETHING about reality and our place in it.
Television, that’s OUR culture. A 30 second TV commercial about nothing that makes you want a pair of Nike shoes made by a 7 year old girl in a sweatshop. Let’s face it, we’re trash. And almost all of us are products of the public school system. Bad apple, bad tree. I say let’s take the sorry fucker out of commission with extreme predjudice. You still on board, Chris?
