Have you noticed the insane pressure to put your kids through college – almost like a blackmail?
It is as if it was recruitment into a sect…
Because it is.
The sect of leftism.
Look at how it works. Every sect uses the same toolkit.
First, the threat. Without us, you are nothing. Your child will flip burgers, marry badly, disappoint the family. Parents hear it from teachers, from neighbours, from other parents at dinner. Nobody says it outright. Everybody feels it.
Second, the price of entry. Years of the child’s life, and often a debt that follows him for decades. A sect that costs nothing is easy to leave. A sect that cost you everything you defend to the end, because the alternative is admitting you were fooled.
Third, separation from the family. The child leaves home at eighteen, the age when the mind is most open and the family most absent. He arrives where nobody knows his parents, and everybody knows what to think.
Fourth, a new language. He comes home at Christmas with words his parents don’t understand, and a moral vocabulary in which they are the problem. The father who paid for it all is now part of what must be overcome.
Fifth, the reward for loyalty. The diploma is not proof of knowledge. It is proof of membership. It opens the doors – jobs, marriages, social standing – that members keep for each other.
And the cleverest part: the parents pay for it. Conservative families raise the child, feed him, form him for eighteen years. Then they pay to have him converted. No sect in history has managed that.
Now the honest part, which makes the blackmail worse, not better: the threat is partly real. In many professions the diploma is still the gate. That is exactly why it works. Blackmail only works when the hostage is real.
The diploma was meant to certify that a young person can think. It now certifies that he thinks correctly.
A society that only hires on the second has already stopped needing the first.
So what do we do? Not refuse education. Refuse the monopoly. Learning is not the same as college. A young person can master mathematics, physics, history, a trade and three languages without four years of moral re-education. If he must go, prepare him before he goes. Build alternatives that don’t ask for his soul as tuition. Hire people for what they can do, not for which sect stamped their papers.
We can make flying cars without them!
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https://i.fixupx.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2110982750333186309
~ Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland)
Conservatism reproduces by birth. Leftism reproduces by conversion.
Look at almost any country. Conservatives have more children. Liberals have fewer. And yet the left does not die out. It grows. How?
It takes ours.
The left does not need children of its own. It needs schools, universities, big cities and screens. We raise our children for eighteen years. The university converts them in four. We do the work. They collect the harvest.
So conservatism has the children and keeps losing them. This has to stop, and ideally reverse.
First: stop giving them our children.
This doesn’t mean hiding them from the world. It means refusing to hand them over by default. The school is not neutral. The university is not neutral. The big city is not neutral. A family that sends a child into all three unprepared is not being open-minded. It is making a donation to its opponents.
Second: give the young something worth staying for.
A young person doesn’t leave because the left has better arguments. He leaves because the left offers belonging and a cause, and we offer him rules. The young are critical. Good. They will not swallow dogma. The Church asks them to believe first and understand later, and most of them walk away before later arrives.
We need an attractive ideological offering – ideally a religion, but one that doesn’t reject the critical minds of today’s young – not the Church with its dogma.
They need a faith that survives questioning. I suggest a Religion of Life (and Fertility).
The objection comes at once: invented religions fail. Comte tried a Religion of Humanity. Robespierre tried the Cult of the Supreme Being. The Soviets tried to worship the State. All dead.
But look at what they worshipped: abstractions. Nobody can love Humanity. Nobody can love Reason. You can love a child. Life is not an idea you must believe in. It is something you hold in your arms at three in the morning.
Fertility may or may not be in the name. Nobody has a child to improve a statistic. Fertility is the fruit, not the root… The root is a simple conviction: life is good, the future is worth inheriting, and what you received you owe forward. Believe that, and the children follow. Chase the birth rate without it, and you get Hungary: a bump, then a fall.
Such a religion asks for no miracles and fears no questions. It offers the one thing the left cannot: a reason to want tomorrow.
The left converts. We must convince. Better still, we must become something worth being born into. If we can’t, the children will keep leaving. And they will be right to.
https://i.fixupx.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2110761433084596711
👀👆👆Brilliant set of posts above….👀👇👇 ~ Tironianae
Two points for analysis:
1) The modern day liberal system is the equivalent of the medieval feudal church of the Dark Ages:
In order to succeed in life, one must tithe at the local university in order to make it into “heaven”. The professor is the pastor—all knowledge of heavenly behavior (Liberal ideology) flows through this professorial authority. The students are the obedient and unquestioning laypeople to the church hierarchy. Those who rebel against this medieval authority are silenced and cast out of the economic system and excommunicated.
2) The Nuclear Family is fundamentally a Socialist system living within the Capitalist system. If Conservatives want to succeed going forward, this reality needs to be acknowledged and understood within the broader context of society. Modern children, unlike their predecessors, have every opportunity presented within this modern version of the Nuclear Family. Complacency and acceptance—without understanding the underlying governing concepts—leads them to the expectation of similar Socialist treatment from the larger society when they become adults. Liberals that crop up from this Socialist Nuclear Family construct then naturally presume that society also follows the same Socialist rule book. They are essentially adult-babies.
https://i.fixupx.com/SPCXMacGuffin/status/2111120572583436368
Notes to Readers:
I went to college and hated it. It doesn’t teach you anything that you can use in the real world. I have three degrees. The last one, from a Community College, was more practical than the 4 years I spent in a full college. When I emerged with my A.A. degree, I was able to get a job. Few history or gender studies graduates can say the same.
IMHO, American education in its current configuration needs to be completely eviscerated, all Marxist ideology completely purged, and a solid, grounded set of courses presented that will aid students going forward who actually want to do things in the world. Emphasis at all levels of education should be focused on teaching classical topics: reading, writing, mathematics, language, history (real history), and then focus on life skills. Home-schooled students are smarter, more independent, deeper thinkers than the ill-prepared students turned out in the current highly socialist-tainted American educational system formerly run by the Dept. of Education.
Most American liberal women are probably more educated than myself, at least on paper, but they have the common sense of a Tsetse Fly and act out like spoiled three-year old children incapable of exercising critical thinking, self-discipline, and moral courage. Like the author states above, they are in effect adult-babies, entirely incapable of self-reflection and self-discipline, while in an adult body.
Although I went to college, I was not subjected to Marxist ideology so escaped the effects of the intentional collapse of the educational system into a system of modern indoctrination. Marxism doesn’t take with people who use critical thinking, and their own intuitive skills. It didn’t take with me. I have always tended to question things, to see through lies, and have been motivated to do my own research, dot connecting… sensing beyond what is delivered through physical media and what my own heart communicates.
How about yourself? Did you go to college or university? Did you learn Latin, Greek, higher mathematics, English grammar and phonetics? I know European schools place different emphasis on various topics.
One of my favorite reference books was a Thesaurus. What was yours?
Eliza Ayres, Sunny’s Journal
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