Hence the recent hit piece in WaPo against homeschooling. They feel their dominion is threatened, so they paint all homeschoolers as crazy and abusive.
And the WaPo knows that only Christians homeschool their children. Maybe a few flat earthers... but they’re crazy Christians too. I really HATE the media.
Between my two kids, I know 9 families homeschooling and only one is a faith based curriculum. The media certainly makes some pretty unkind assumptions. Also, new private schools are booming. You’d think the teachers might “learn a lesson.”
Yes, many secular parents recognize public-government schools for the sewers that they are. The list of sewage ingredients is a long one, not to mention safety concerns, bullying on and on.
Wyatt - I forced myself to read that article. You nailed it.
At the same time I think some of us have to fight this fight on the "public" side; that is to say fight within the system of public schools.
My wife and me have chosen that path for a variety of reasons; but mainly to expand the "target audience" and to be able to take it directly to the bureaucracy, administrators, etc.
What we have discovered is there's actually like minded folks in the system (including some teachers). It feels like a lot of folks have been waiting for others to stand up and/or have organizations as vehicles to voice their concerns.
I guess my point (and Gato may disagree) is that we need some people to "check-out" and some to "check-in".
I just think that's pragmatic at this point in order to accomplish what Gato has outlined?
Does anyone have thoughts on this? I truly believe this is the fight of our "generation"...at least for those with children.
Doesn't matter how many "like minded" are in the system. It is still the system, full of strangers who are there to groom and infect this generation as the next generation of adult slaves. Stop looking for excuses to give over responsibility of children to others. Take it back, all of it, and never give it to anyone else again. If the parents of today do not find the strength to that, the parents of tomorrow- todays children- are doomed, literally doomed.
Must use Humor! Ask peeps/parents at schools how they feel about specific topics.
Why on earth is the Worlds Biggest Empire represented by 90-year old dead zombie and a VP that is a Laughing IDIOT. Quite Absurd. Is this the best we can do? Is there something else going on?
Well...the “march through the institutions” is how the left/Uniparty brought us to this point, and Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse argues compellingly that 2009 was an inflection point (posted within last week).
A march through the institutions from the other side will take decades, and meantime the largest organization on Earth (2-4 million employees - who can’t be fired - and contractors) acquires more power and presses the boot on many more faces. People need to start somewhere, and this is one place. Applause for your chosen route.
Frankly I think that to survive the coming chaos, focusing on local is the only way. We rebuild from there: local schools, churches, clubs, councils, governments. And bury in hidden vaults the written word so that we can reconstruct it as the electronic tech systems continue to delete the source material. That’s how we have the Bible, especially the New Testament- consider all the hidden scrolls that were found in the 19th & 20th centuries. They were hidden because of persecution. There are also the stories of St Patrick saving precious books during the Dark Ages. (By the way, are children taught penmanship and spelling anymore? I have none of my own and am not around others’ to know.If not, teach them at home.)
As we go local, we must remember that Jesus never once excluded a soul from His teaching, compassion and love. Even as he called out hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders from within the temples as He taught (thus being called Rabbi, or Master by his followers which included the Gentiles) he did so with love. This is fresh for me as I make another trip through the Gospels.
Agree completely with "go local". And with the idea of taking extreme measures to save printed materials from the torches of the book burners.
When we try to rebuild, a hundred, (or a thousand), years from now it is highly improbable that we will be able to read any of the myriad electronic storage media of the day. OR that the content will have survived generations, or centuries, of "fact checkers".
I know a 70 year old lady who ran a business her whole life who is all in on this insanity. EVERYTHING is the fault of the imbecile Christian. Otherwise the world would be a perfect Utopia. SMH
Well they are Christian values. They are also the values of secular people who culturally accept Christian values without acknowledging the source.
The last time I was in church outside of a funeral, I finally read the Nicene creed with the understanding of an adult. I do not believe in any of the declarations of the the Nicene creed. I cannot go to any church that asks me to repeat it as that would be me lying. Good and evil do exist. I have learned that at the heart of all evil is a lie. To lie is to begin your path to the Devil, to the Dark Side to welcome evil into your soul, to accept a demon. See the movie “Nefarious.” Note that I do not believe in supernatural demons but it is a useful concept to describe a person infected with bad ideas to the point of madness. You do have a soul just as a PC has software. I believe immortality has earned by hard work. By fathering good children, by inventing new stuff, by writing or creating good works of art.
The Catholics are better than most for a culture for condemning those that lie (Present pope excepted.). They also father good children.
I wish the Catholic Church would declare Issac Newton a Saint. He invented the Calculus, and laid the foundation for the wonderful technology that makes our lives so good today.
Need to get over this whole "which religion does it better" crap. Parents need to be parents, and organized religion may occasionally espouse good values, but mostly they were invented to control the masses. They also espouse some not so great values and contribute to division, if you really think about it. People who ascribe to all religions can have values and morality- and they don't need to attribute it an organized religion- they are just decent, good people
That’s especially rich in light of all of the sexual and other abuse of children by teachers and school staff that we keep seeing in the news. And those instances are only the ones who have been caught. There are likely many more.
Sexually abusing kids is only bad if a priest does it. Then it merits an Oscar nominated drama. If a teacher does it - which happens far, far more often - abuse should be either ignored or celebrated, but never condemned.
I always thought that the reporting of abuse by teenage boys against reasonably attractive female teachers is by far the surest sign that the world has gone insane. My hormones at that age would have likely let any of the female staff abuse (ha ha, "abuse"! seriously?) me; and I sure as heck wouldn't have risked that arrangement by telling anybody! Hormones have changed since I was a young lad.
I began homeschooling in 1989. This is tame compared to some of the things thrown at us as we tried to get laws changed to “decriminalize” homeschooling parents. Christian homeschoolers are not the only ones doing it. And if you want to see a coalition of all walks of life band together quickly, threaten homeschoolers.
Homeschooling strengthens the family, one of their major targets. So many places, British Columbia, Chico CA, NYC, the UK and Anglican schools, are eroding parental rights via tiny incremental moves around vaccines or trans issues. Here, as in Malone's post today, and in the UK, where the govt was defining Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton readers as on the road to radicalization, they are after Judeo-Christianity, the family, and replacing actual reading, writing and arithmetic with "reeling, writhing, and fainting in coils" Even if education was always shaped politically to create some desired adult, it used to give a kid the eventual tools to out think the indoctrination. They must've realized the error of their ways, getting rid of reading through whole language, drugging the vaccine damaged kids, getting rid of recess, movement being necessary for brain and body integration, and pumping ideology from preschool. If I were a kid and was told the horrors of whiteness, masculinity, traditional female roles, I'd want to be alphabet soup trans too. Besides those drag costumes are pretty cool, and a lot better than confessing to my white privilege. Teachers used to be a line of defense against intergenerationally pathological families, now they are the intergenerational pathology. Here's a good article on the deep state, pharma affiliated, democrat controlled education unions. For the Fisher King's wound to heal, Parzival must ask "what ails you?" Then flourishing is restored. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-teachers-union-broke-public-education
and all along, the parents who home school their kids also have to pay the property taxes that support the government schools. I lived in a rural community where quite a number of people from Christians to hippies home schooled. What I observed was most of these kids scored quite high on testing and did well in college, or the trades if they weren't inclined to go to college. These kids were also not allergic to work.
Also, the new series on Prime called "Happy, Shiny People" which takes massive aim at homeschooling as the vehicle for Christians "taking over America".
Gato, this is one of the best, most urgent and clarifying posts I have ever read. That is a terrifying thought. (it is like catching an identity thief after all of your worldly possessions are already gone.) Better for us to learn this late in the process than never….however it is most assuredly LATE in the process. And the process is a hell-scape.
According to Matthias Desmet, at this stage, the mob is likely to relieve its extreme internal angst and isolation by sacrificing dissenters, not because the mob believes the lies deeply, but rather because extreme sacrifices help them feel connected again. It doesn’t work, but such is the depth of our human animal wiring against the agony of loneliness and despair.
Desmet says a single voice of dissent can stop the damage from going as deep. Dissent keeps the lies and manipulation from anchoring unchecked in the perceived reality—even if it doesn’t particularly help the dissenter.
You have provided this invaluable service. We salute you! Deeply and sincerely. Thank you for being you.
Good Comment Rae. It take MONTHS of work as a Dissenter (turning the sleepies, into questioning entities). SO tiring. That's okay, I have an ENDLESS supply of coffee 😆😆🧂🧂☕☕
There are others dissenting. Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for a couple well-known examples. No wonder [they] hate both Trump and RFK Jr. Once the normies start listening to dissent, they become awake -- they leave. Mass formation psychosis ends when [they] lose control of the message. Which is happening right now. Every day, new disclosures. Epstein. Bidens. Clintons. Fauci. FBI. CIA... on and on it goes.
“information is not too important to be left to free markets and free people. it is too important not to be …”
Stalin disagrees 😉: “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
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“and the first step is realizing that the purpose of public schooling and public messaging was never to illuminate but to captivate.”
If you want to understand the role of psychiatrists in shaping the education system to bring about a cultural revolution, I highly recommend reading this 1946 lecture series titled “The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress” by Brock Chisholm, who was to become WHO’s first director-general in 1948:
I single out some choice quotes and delve into the State’s use of indoctrination to mold children into willing practitioners of servitude dating back to Plato’s “Republic” in my interview for “Croatian Weekly” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-croatian-weekly-hrvatski-tjednik), this being one example of Chisholm’s “it takes a village” thinking:
“Parents must be made to see that children are in no sense their chattels but instead their wards, held in trust as future members of the community.”
Reading Stalin and Lenin comes highly recommended, not because anyone should aspire to their versions of communism, but to understand the mechanisms of realpolitik. Also, Schmidt, Bismarck, Clausewitz, the list goes on.
One thing you'll notice about Stalin isthat he was an honest man. A terrifying, murderous brute yet honest in his appraisal of the reality of power and politics. No illusions or delusions that adhering to some principle based in ideals or vice versa, or some scrap of scripture for that matter was more important than real power.
The lesson is there for those who wish to learn. The price may well be your sanity.
The Republic has been long dead. Whether it is the shift of power from states to a central government - which literally began when the gathering to amend the Articles of Confederation was co-opted to institute a Federal government, or the shift from senators being chosen by state legislatures (imagine what the Senate would look like were that still the case), or elsewhere - or the formation & institution of the “Federal Reserve” (sic), or any other stopping points along the way => the “America, hell yeah!” that is represented by the comment above (Pledge of Allegiance) is nothing but a John Wayne movie fantasy.
Long gone, long dead - and the question really comes down to is this: will enough people refuse to continue to play their game? Are people willing to make personal sacrifices to bring about true change? Is there enough HEART left among the people of America, and of Canada, and of all the other nations who have been taken down into this pit?
VERY hard times are coming, whether that brought to you by passive participation in the system (eat your bugs in your one room dwelling AND BE HAPPY!) or that which comes about by refusing to cooperate. Either way, prepare for great darkness. The question to ask yourself is this:
Do I wish to suffer at ‘their’ hands as I walk ‘their’ path, or will I CHOOSE to suffer as I walk the path of FREEDOM, as I swim against the prevailing current of society?
Thanks for all these excellent observations. I also knew we were in super-financed Perma-Psyop mode when both European and American mainstream media featured chatty stories, and there were even government posters, on how to recognize your child having a heart attack, as though it were normal, to be expected.
Living in the dystopian U.K. I am not sure which is worse, the US or U.K. it feels like we are trying to navigate through a very dense fog. The gov’t filled with wef puppets sending confusing signals. Nurses, civil servants, train drivers, conductors, passport employees, airport security, airport customs officers all off and on strike for over 6 months. Cost of living sharply rising, housing becoming unaffordable for many. Not a word from the government that is all over net zero, trans, 15 minute cities,
I also live in the appalling UK, where we have a so called Conservative government who are actually nothing of the sort - cultural marxists & economic communists. It's absolutely heartbreaking and we have no democratic alternative - perhaps Reform UK, but even they are appalling on the experimental mRNA treatments & the terrible side effects & deaths caused by them & our first past the post system will deny them seats.
For anyone who is curious of the UK's strangling government diktats, watch the 2 seasons of Clarkson's Farm. Even the bucolic Cotswolds are not safe. Of course, their target is the English version of our orange man.
Having just returned to the UK for first time in 7 years, let me assure you Australia is 10 times worse. Pre covid I thought I’d won the lottery with dual citizenship. That turned in those 3 weeks to flatten the curve. But pieces like this make me hopeful. Also lucky enough to have homes in Sydney and out in country NSW. Sydney really is a lost cause, but out in the sticks there’s an underbelly of anger that won’t be tricked so easily again.
The war machine exists to transfer wealth and power from the people to the state and military-industrial complex. Kinetic war is a byproduct, and not essential. The same purpose can be served by endless preparations against the threat of war from some presumed enemy. The Cold War for instance.
So long as productive assets are consumed for the benefit of the deep state/MIC, the purpose is served.
Agreed; though that comment was meant to put this matter into context. In the context of Gato's complete piece, it is one of many points; and I do not think that the specifics here affect his overall theme. Both 'producing war' and 'transferring wealth and power...' are evil, and regardless of which is true (both could be, in fact), the net effect of the war machine is negative on society.
But you are right, it was significant enough for me to comment on.
"..... it represents a one sided bet for politicians because if they fail to snap into line, any new attack or bad outcome can be pinned on them....."
And that's why I like Ron DeSantis. By keeping Florida open, he risked his political career giving truth to his statement that he does what he thinks is right, not what the polls say.
I agree with your general propositions and potential path forward. However, imho, it will never happen at the federal government level. States will have to act, throw the Department of Education out of their school systems, reject their funding and chart a state level, independent path that has as its first action decertification of all teachers unions and setting up an equal playing field for charter and other similar, merit based, educational options.
Yes, I signed their petition a while back and fully support their efforts. The relationship between the states and the federal government is 180 degrees opposite of what the founders intended.
"However, imho, it will never happen [at any level of BigGov]"
We shouldn't count on BigGov at all because they're actually the cause. I think Gato's message is that We the Little People do this. He's showing us how with this forum.
We interact with our community and express our ideas cogently - armed with arguments we share here at Casa de Gato - and bravely - because we can see here that we're not alone.
I agree entirely with this piece, but must note that these are the mechanisms of every religion ever invented. Dissenters against the machine have been burnt in pyres from the beginning of civilization.
How many people reading and agreeing with this Substack post also daily repeat in ritual prayer the words someone else made up, instead of using their own words and thoughts to express themselves to the Whosoever?
How many people obediently stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at any gathering or function where that's the routine start-off?
People just get mad when it's an antagonist idea forced on them instead of the idea they want to force on others.
Whatever we name our systems, however modern we think we are at any point in time, we're just doing the same things we've always done in organizing society. In every culture education used to be the monopoly of the culture's religious hierarchal institutions, didn't it? Who founded our first universities anywhere? Not freethinkers so far as I can recall.
Nobody really truly wants them kids to think for themselves.
Most people do not know that the Pledge was written by a socialist (Francis Bellamy) as a talisman to distract from 'uphold and defend the Constitution.' Blind allegiance to a symbol is a powerful tool for a dictator.
The flag is also not meaningless, nor did I claim it was. It means a great deal to many, especially in the military.
That said, the point is that symbols can be used to distract from concrete reality. The more felt meaning the symbol has, the more powerful the distraction. The socialists did not like all of the 'rights' embodied in the Constitution, nor all of the limitations on federal power it embodies. So, get the proles all riled up about the flag and the 'republic,' and they do not pay attention to the Constitution.
The Pledge has succeeded in its goals. It is mindlessly repeated in all manner of settings. As with, for instance, the Lord's Prayer, many people know the words but neglect to understand the true meaning. Exactly what Bellamy intended.
That's a good point about the Pledge that I hadn't thought about. I was aware of Bellamy as a socialist, and that the "under God" was added after Bellamy's time to get religious conservatives to support establishing the Pledge in the schools. But I hadn't noticed that the Constitution is deliberately not mentioned in the Pledge-- it's all about symbolic loyalty to the flag, the Republic, the nation. So, a distraction from the concrete document of foundation, in favor of whatever government rules us, and its symbols of "us" as a people.
Exactly. Replace reality with a symbol, then you can re-define the symbol to be whatever you want it to be. And very few people are aware of what you are doing.
All part of the mind-control propaganda [they] have been up to for a long time.
Right. Create a symbol, which is your intellectual property, and which points at something real. Then gradually redefine the symbol that you control so that it points elsewhere so that you can use it that way while most people still retain the first association. Exploit the difference to control the people. It can be a perfect sleight of hand.
We also always need to keep in mind that the Founders barely managed to hang together long enough to create our foundational documents before they descended into the most vicious slanderings and contempt and fury towards one another because them evil political parties couldn't stop themselves from birthing in the new republic. We were lucky they managed to pull out from themselves by brute will such extraordinary wisdom.
People are the same all over. It's just how they define terms that vary according to cultural values.
And human nature doesn't change. The sky is always falling somewhere and there's always a prophet to tell you how to avoid it. (Send money...)
One of the real jokes on us as a sentient species is that every generation thinks it's the most modern ever. Yeah, but that don't mean what they think it does...
“ the foundational mission statement of public schooling in the US was not to help children grow, but to mold children into that which was useful and obedient to the state.”
Exactly! This is why I get frustrated when people talk about our “failing” school system. It’s not failing, it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do!
In case y’all missed it, you will like my piece in First Things on how the medical world partners with schools to keep education as Prussian as possible:
And heres a hopefully uplifting piece about what education really looked like in the time of the Founders and how (aside from homeschooling, which is what we do) some of that spirit is coming back in some cool new alternative schooling initiatives:
I noticed that too. I’m not an expert on “-ology, -isms, and -ics ” but I think we are a Constitutional Republic with Democratic voting. Ideally. Before we devolved into a plutocracy, oligarchy, totalitarian slave system with draconian non-voting. Sorry, that’s dark.
Hence the recent hit piece in WaPo against homeschooling. They feel their dominion is threatened, so they paint all homeschoolers as crazy and abusive.
“The Revolt of the Christian Homeschoolers.”
And the WaPo knows that only Christians homeschool their children. Maybe a few flat earthers... but they’re crazy Christians too. I really HATE the media.
i hate the media too, but I'm Jewish and I homeschool ;-).
Between my two kids, I know 9 families homeschooling and only one is a faith based curriculum. The media certainly makes some pretty unkind assumptions. Also, new private schools are booming. You’d think the teachers might “learn a lesson.”
Yes, many secular parents recognize public-government schools for the sewers that they are. The list of sewage ingredients is a long one, not to mention safety concerns, bullying on and on.
The media isn't making assumptions, they are influencing with lies and smear campaigns, deliberately and relentlessly
It’s simply unethical!
Yeah. Just shows how much of what [they] know is hogwash...
Kudos to the Orthodox Jews for providing schools for their children.
👈 Heathen!
😉 >sarcasm<
and proud of it :-D!
Me, too! 😉😊😋
Wyatt - I forced myself to read that article. You nailed it.
At the same time I think some of us have to fight this fight on the "public" side; that is to say fight within the system of public schools.
My wife and me have chosen that path for a variety of reasons; but mainly to expand the "target audience" and to be able to take it directly to the bureaucracy, administrators, etc.
What we have discovered is there's actually like minded folks in the system (including some teachers). It feels like a lot of folks have been waiting for others to stand up and/or have organizations as vehicles to voice their concerns.
I guess my point (and Gato may disagree) is that we need some people to "check-out" and some to "check-in".
I just think that's pragmatic at this point in order to accomplish what Gato has outlined?
Does anyone have thoughts on this? I truly believe this is the fight of our "generation"...at least for those with children.
"What we have discovered is there's actually like minded folks in the system"
I think there are more like-minded than we realize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Cyyb0jk7Q&start=160&end=175
Doesn't matter how many "like minded" are in the system. It is still the system, full of strangers who are there to groom and infect this generation as the next generation of adult slaves. Stop looking for excuses to give over responsibility of children to others. Take it back, all of it, and never give it to anyone else again. If the parents of today do not find the strength to that, the parents of tomorrow- todays children- are doomed, literally doomed.
Must use Humor! Ask peeps/parents at schools how they feel about specific topics.
Why on earth is the Worlds Biggest Empire represented by 90-year old dead zombie and a VP that is a Laughing IDIOT. Quite Absurd. Is this the best we can do? Is there something else going on?
100%, you're right. Humor is the closest distance between two people.
Pretty sure common sense and a sense of humor are correlated. If you want to test this hypothesis try talking to a school board...lol..:)
We had a get together of people in our neighborhood that have become involved. We were cracking jokes all night about stuff like you mentioned.
What wasn't funny is we drank all the booze in my bar and I had a two day hangover!..lol....:)
"Pretty sure common sense and sense of humor are correlated " that's what made George Carlin so great! "Try talking to a school board " hilarious 😂
Yes, this is the best we can do. History always repeats itself. Read about the Roman emperors in the last days of Rome.
Well...the “march through the institutions” is how the left/Uniparty brought us to this point, and Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse argues compellingly that 2009 was an inflection point (posted within last week).
A march through the institutions from the other side will take decades, and meantime the largest organization on Earth (2-4 million employees - who can’t be fired - and contractors) acquires more power and presses the boot on many more faces. People need to start somewhere, and this is one place. Applause for your chosen route.
Frankly I think that to survive the coming chaos, focusing on local is the only way. We rebuild from there: local schools, churches, clubs, councils, governments. And bury in hidden vaults the written word so that we can reconstruct it as the electronic tech systems continue to delete the source material. That’s how we have the Bible, especially the New Testament- consider all the hidden scrolls that were found in the 19th & 20th centuries. They were hidden because of persecution. There are also the stories of St Patrick saving precious books during the Dark Ages. (By the way, are children taught penmanship and spelling anymore? I have none of my own and am not around others’ to know.If not, teach them at home.)
As we go local, we must remember that Jesus never once excluded a soul from His teaching, compassion and love. Even as he called out hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders from within the temples as He taught (thus being called Rabbi, or Master by his followers which included the Gentiles) he did so with love. This is fresh for me as I make another trip through the Gospels.
Agree completely with "go local". And with the idea of taking extreme measures to save printed materials from the torches of the book burners.
When we try to rebuild, a hundred, (or a thousand), years from now it is highly improbable that we will be able to read any of the myriad electronic storage media of the day. OR that the content will have survived generations, or centuries, of "fact checkers".
Spot on. Perfectly said
I know a 70 year old lady who ran a business her whole life who is all in on this insanity. EVERYTHING is the fault of the imbecile Christian. Otherwise the world would be a perfect Utopia. SMH
Agree!
Well they are Christian values. They are also the values of secular people who culturally accept Christian values without acknowledging the source.
The last time I was in church outside of a funeral, I finally read the Nicene creed with the understanding of an adult. I do not believe in any of the declarations of the the Nicene creed. I cannot go to any church that asks me to repeat it as that would be me lying. Good and evil do exist. I have learned that at the heart of all evil is a lie. To lie is to begin your path to the Devil, to the Dark Side to welcome evil into your soul, to accept a demon. See the movie “Nefarious.” Note that I do not believe in supernatural demons but it is a useful concept to describe a person infected with bad ideas to the point of madness. You do have a soul just as a PC has software. I believe immortality has earned by hard work. By fathering good children, by inventing new stuff, by writing or creating good works of art.
The Catholics are better than most for a culture for condemning those that lie (Present pope excepted.). They also father good children.
I wish the Catholic Church would declare Issac Newton a Saint. He invented the Calculus, and laid the foundation for the wonderful technology that makes our lives so good today.
Need to get over this whole "which religion does it better" crap. Parents need to be parents, and organized religion may occasionally espouse good values, but mostly they were invented to control the masses. They also espouse some not so great values and contribute to division, if you really think about it. People who ascribe to all religions can have values and morality- and they don't need to attribute it an organized religion- they are just decent, good people
The Long March through the Institutions is a method anyone can use, have they the deication for it.
Study the Islamic Brotherhood for a lesson at the Master's Level.
"A lot of folks have been waiting for others to stand up" -- yes. Very important to remember, to act on.
That’s especially rich in light of all of the sexual and other abuse of children by teachers and school staff that we keep seeing in the news. And those instances are only the ones who have been caught. There are likely many more.
Sexually abusing kids is only bad if a priest does it. Then it merits an Oscar nominated drama. If a teacher does it - which happens far, far more often - abuse should be either ignored or celebrated, but never condemned.
and never prosecuted or litigated
There is prodigious evidence that government "schools" have a far higher rate of abuse than the Catholic church.
That only the later is widely publicized and sensationalized is not a coincidence.
I thought you might enjoy this:
https://youtu.be/lEFt-rD8gro
Who's ready for another four years!
I guess ol' Corn Pop joined the AF after getting straightened out with Brandon's chain.
Just beyond pathetic.
Dude. I'm checking out if that happens.
We need to find a rendezvous spot.
Going to have to be the PRC (People's Republic of California).
Turns out I can check out but never actually leave... ;-)
Maybe an uninhabited Key. Bring the the hardware.
I always thought that the reporting of abuse by teenage boys against reasonably attractive female teachers is by far the surest sign that the world has gone insane. My hormones at that age would have likely let any of the female staff abuse (ha ha, "abuse"! seriously?) me; and I sure as heck wouldn't have risked that arrangement by telling anybody! Hormones have changed since I was a young lad.
"They" have been at that for a long time. Here is a link to countries who do and do not allow homeschooling.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_status_and_statistics
The interesting one is Germany (shock) which has a brief explainer in the notes. There is also detail of our reaction in the courts to it.
I think they are just trying to get the pandemic piglets back in the chute... where they belong.
So funny how they paint them as those evil Christians. Those supremacists. Those others. The media are predictable turds.
I began homeschooling in 1989. This is tame compared to some of the things thrown at us as we tried to get laws changed to “decriminalize” homeschooling parents. Christian homeschoolers are not the only ones doing it. And if you want to see a coalition of all walks of life band together quickly, threaten homeschoolers.
Homeschooling strengthens the family, one of their major targets. So many places, British Columbia, Chico CA, NYC, the UK and Anglican schools, are eroding parental rights via tiny incremental moves around vaccines or trans issues. Here, as in Malone's post today, and in the UK, where the govt was defining Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton readers as on the road to radicalization, they are after Judeo-Christianity, the family, and replacing actual reading, writing and arithmetic with "reeling, writhing, and fainting in coils" Even if education was always shaped politically to create some desired adult, it used to give a kid the eventual tools to out think the indoctrination. They must've realized the error of their ways, getting rid of reading through whole language, drugging the vaccine damaged kids, getting rid of recess, movement being necessary for brain and body integration, and pumping ideology from preschool. If I were a kid and was told the horrors of whiteness, masculinity, traditional female roles, I'd want to be alphabet soup trans too. Besides those drag costumes are pretty cool, and a lot better than confessing to my white privilege. Teachers used to be a line of defense against intergenerationally pathological families, now they are the intergenerational pathology. Here's a good article on the deep state, pharma affiliated, democrat controlled education unions. For the Fisher King's wound to heal, Parzival must ask "what ails you?" Then flourishing is restored. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-teachers-union-broke-public-education
Gaslighting...wanna borrow a match?
WaPo: yet another I used to read... back in Pleistocene.
It makes for good fishwrap.
I would not subject my fish to that! LoL. Funky vibes.
and all along, the parents who home school their kids also have to pay the property taxes that support the government schools. I lived in a rural community where quite a number of people from Christians to hippies home schooled. What I observed was most of these kids scored quite high on testing and did well in college, or the trades if they weren't inclined to go to college. These kids were also not allergic to work.
Also, the new series on Prime called "Happy, Shiny People" which takes massive aim at homeschooling as the vehicle for Christians "taking over America".
Gato, this is one of the best, most urgent and clarifying posts I have ever read. That is a terrifying thought. (it is like catching an identity thief after all of your worldly possessions are already gone.) Better for us to learn this late in the process than never….however it is most assuredly LATE in the process. And the process is a hell-scape.
According to Matthias Desmet, at this stage, the mob is likely to relieve its extreme internal angst and isolation by sacrificing dissenters, not because the mob believes the lies deeply, but rather because extreme sacrifices help them feel connected again. It doesn’t work, but such is the depth of our human animal wiring against the agony of loneliness and despair.
Desmet says a single voice of dissent can stop the damage from going as deep. Dissent keeps the lies and manipulation from anchoring unchecked in the perceived reality—even if it doesn’t particularly help the dissenter.
You have provided this invaluable service. We salute you! Deeply and sincerely. Thank you for being you.
Good Comment Rae. It take MONTHS of work as a Dissenter (turning the sleepies, into questioning entities). SO tiring. That's okay, I have an ENDLESS supply of coffee 😆😆🧂🧂☕☕
Just keep dissenting. They hate that!
There are others dissenting. Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for a couple well-known examples. No wonder [they] hate both Trump and RFK Jr. Once the normies start listening to dissent, they become awake -- they leave. Mass formation psychosis ends when [they] lose control of the message. Which is happening right now. Every day, new disclosures. Epstein. Bidens. Clintons. Fauci. FBI. CIA... on and on it goes.
“information is not too important to be left to free markets and free people. it is too important not to be …”
Stalin disagrees 😉: “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
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“and the first step is realizing that the purpose of public schooling and public messaging was never to illuminate but to captivate.”
If you want to understand the role of psychiatrists in shaping the education system to bring about a cultural revolution, I highly recommend reading this 1946 lecture series titled “The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress” by Brock Chisholm, who was to become WHO’s first director-general in 1948:
• https://mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/psychiatry-of-enduring-peace-and-social-progress-chisholm-and-sullivan-1946.pdf
I single out some choice quotes and delve into the State’s use of indoctrination to mold children into willing practitioners of servitude dating back to Plato’s “Republic” in my interview for “Croatian Weekly” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-croatian-weekly-hrvatski-tjednik), this being one example of Chisholm’s “it takes a village” thinking:
“Parents must be made to see that children are in no sense their chattels but instead their wards, held in trust as future members of the community.”
Reading Stalin and Lenin comes highly recommended, not because anyone should aspire to their versions of communism, but to understand the mechanisms of realpolitik. Also, Schmidt, Bismarck, Clausewitz, the list goes on.
One thing you'll notice about Stalin isthat he was an honest man. A terrifying, murderous brute yet honest in his appraisal of the reality of power and politics. No illusions or delusions that adhering to some principle based in ideals or vice versa, or some scrap of scripture for that matter was more important than real power.
The lesson is there for those who wish to learn. The price may well be your sanity.
I agree. It’s good to read them to understand how they thought. Reading Trotsky showed me what sneering disdainful elitists he and his ilk were…
Defund the CDC! And FDA!!
and fbi!!
And DHS!
And the CIA and NSA.
But why stop there?
Indeed. Defund any not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
Extremely long list.
Baltimore City Council had a hearing yesterday into last night about trash pickup and street repair.
Councilman Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer suggested that the city Defund the DPW.
I like it. I like it a lot.
The Republic has been long dead. Whether it is the shift of power from states to a central government - which literally began when the gathering to amend the Articles of Confederation was co-opted to institute a Federal government, or the shift from senators being chosen by state legislatures (imagine what the Senate would look like were that still the case), or elsewhere - or the formation & institution of the “Federal Reserve” (sic), or any other stopping points along the way => the “America, hell yeah!” that is represented by the comment above (Pledge of Allegiance) is nothing but a John Wayne movie fantasy.
Long gone, long dead - and the question really comes down to is this: will enough people refuse to continue to play their game? Are people willing to make personal sacrifices to bring about true change? Is there enough HEART left among the people of America, and of Canada, and of all the other nations who have been taken down into this pit?
VERY hard times are coming, whether that brought to you by passive participation in the system (eat your bugs in your one room dwelling AND BE HAPPY!) or that which comes about by refusing to cooperate. Either way, prepare for great darkness. The question to ask yourself is this:
Do I wish to suffer at ‘their’ hands as I walk ‘their’ path, or will I CHOOSE to suffer as I walk the path of FREEDOM, as I swim against the prevailing current of society?
Thanks for all these excellent observations. I also knew we were in super-financed Perma-Psyop mode when both European and American mainstream media featured chatty stories, and there were even government posters, on how to recognize your child having a heart attack, as though it were normal, to be expected.
Living in the dystopian U.K. I am not sure which is worse, the US or U.K. it feels like we are trying to navigate through a very dense fog. The gov’t filled with wef puppets sending confusing signals. Nurses, civil servants, train drivers, conductors, passport employees, airport security, airport customs officers all off and on strike for over 6 months. Cost of living sharply rising, housing becoming unaffordable for many. Not a word from the government that is all over net zero, trans, 15 minute cities,
I also live in the appalling UK, where we have a so called Conservative government who are actually nothing of the sort - cultural marxists & economic communists. It's absolutely heartbreaking and we have no democratic alternative - perhaps Reform UK, but even they are appalling on the experimental mRNA treatments & the terrible side effects & deaths caused by them & our first past the post system will deny them seats.
But having said all that - this made me feel better when I first watched it, & it's as relevant now as it was then:
https://youtu.be/FpDJ7naS__Y
Wow! He was on fire!
For anyone who is curious of the UK's strangling government diktats, watch the 2 seasons of Clarkson's Farm. Even the bucolic Cotswolds are not safe. Of course, their target is the English version of our orange man.
it is horrible. Yes, US and UK are suffering, the European countries just suffer and go along
Nero fiddles while Rome burns... all over again.
Having just returned to the UK for first time in 7 years, let me assure you Australia is 10 times worse. Pre covid I thought I’d won the lottery with dual citizenship. That turned in those 3 weeks to flatten the curve. But pieces like this make me hopeful. Also lucky enough to have homes in Sydney and out in country NSW. Sydney really is a lost cause, but out in the sticks there’s an underbelly of anger that won’t be tricked so easily again.
"it’s not a path forward, it’s poison peddled as panacea."
Brilliant, sir, brilliant!
100%, except one minor detail.
"the war machine exists to produce war"
The war machine exists to transfer wealth and power from the people to the state and military-industrial complex. Kinetic war is a byproduct, and not essential. The same purpose can be served by endless preparations against the threat of war from some presumed enemy. The Cold War for instance.
So long as productive assets are consumed for the benefit of the deep state/MIC, the purpose is served.
That’s not a minor detail 😬
Agreed; though that comment was meant to put this matter into context. In the context of Gato's complete piece, it is one of many points; and I do not think that the specifics here affect his overall theme. Both 'producing war' and 'transferring wealth and power...' are evil, and regardless of which is true (both could be, in fact), the net effect of the war machine is negative on society.
But you are right, it was significant enough for me to comment on.
Outstanding article! Thank you!
"..... it represents a one sided bet for politicians because if they fail to snap into line, any new attack or bad outcome can be pinned on them....."
And that's why I like Ron DeSantis. By keeping Florida open, he risked his political career giving truth to his statement that he does what he thinks is right, not what the polls say.
I agree with your general propositions and potential path forward. However, imho, it will never happen at the federal government level. States will have to act, throw the Department of Education out of their school systems, reject their funding and chart a state level, independent path that has as its first action decertification of all teachers unions and setting up an equal playing field for charter and other similar, merit based, educational options.
Time for a Convention of States.. or an outright peaceful divorce.
Yes, I signed their petition a while back and fully support their efforts. The relationship between the states and the federal government is 180 degrees opposite of what the founders intended.
I vote for the "peaceful divorce ", although I doubt my namesake the old General would agree. 🫡
"However, imho, it will never happen [at any level of BigGov]"
We shouldn't count on BigGov at all because they're actually the cause. I think Gato's message is that We the Little People do this. He's showing us how with this forum.
We interact with our community and express our ideas cogently - armed with arguments we share here at Casa de Gato - and bravely - because we can see here that we're not alone.
“for war is permission to think the unthinkable and excuse to do that which is inexcusable.” And a Scamdemic comes in handy also.
I agree entirely with this piece, but must note that these are the mechanisms of every religion ever invented. Dissenters against the machine have been burnt in pyres from the beginning of civilization.
How many people reading and agreeing with this Substack post also daily repeat in ritual prayer the words someone else made up, instead of using their own words and thoughts to express themselves to the Whosoever?
How many people obediently stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at any gathering or function where that's the routine start-off?
People just get mad when it's an antagonist idea forced on them instead of the idea they want to force on others.
Whatever we name our systems, however modern we think we are at any point in time, we're just doing the same things we've always done in organizing society. In every culture education used to be the monopoly of the culture's religious hierarchal institutions, didn't it? Who founded our first universities anywhere? Not freethinkers so far as I can recall.
Nobody really truly wants them kids to think for themselves.
Most people do not know that the Pledge was written by a socialist (Francis Bellamy) as a talisman to distract from 'uphold and defend the Constitution.' Blind allegiance to a symbol is a powerful tool for a dictator.
It sure has succeeded in doing a lot of distracting, hasn't it?
Yeah, but there is that "...and the Republic, for which it stands" part.
Symbols have meanings that are not... meaningless.
The flag is also not meaningless, nor did I claim it was. It means a great deal to many, especially in the military.
That said, the point is that symbols can be used to distract from concrete reality. The more felt meaning the symbol has, the more powerful the distraction. The socialists did not like all of the 'rights' embodied in the Constitution, nor all of the limitations on federal power it embodies. So, get the proles all riled up about the flag and the 'republic,' and they do not pay attention to the Constitution.
The Pledge has succeeded in its goals. It is mindlessly repeated in all manner of settings. As with, for instance, the Lord's Prayer, many people know the words but neglect to understand the true meaning. Exactly what Bellamy intended.
I get what you're saying about just going through the motions and using the flag as a tool - both for and against.
That's a good point about the Pledge that I hadn't thought about. I was aware of Bellamy as a socialist, and that the "under God" was added after Bellamy's time to get religious conservatives to support establishing the Pledge in the schools. But I hadn't noticed that the Constitution is deliberately not mentioned in the Pledge-- it's all about symbolic loyalty to the flag, the Republic, the nation. So, a distraction from the concrete document of foundation, in favor of whatever government rules us, and its symbols of "us" as a people.
Exactly. Replace reality with a symbol, then you can re-define the symbol to be whatever you want it to be. And very few people are aware of what you are doing.
All part of the mind-control propaganda [they] have been up to for a long time.
Right. Create a symbol, which is your intellectual property, and which points at something real. Then gradually redefine the symbol that you control so that it points elsewhere so that you can use it that way while most people still retain the first association. Exploit the difference to control the people. It can be a perfect sleight of hand.
"I agree entirely with this piece, but must note that these are the mechanisms of every religion ever invented."
*holds chin between thumb and forefinger signifying deep thought*
Hmmmm...
Some very smart guy said "insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expectedly different results. "
😎
Well heck. Random luck sneaks in sometimes...
We also always need to keep in mind that the Founders barely managed to hang together long enough to create our foundational documents before they descended into the most vicious slanderings and contempt and fury towards one another because them evil political parties couldn't stop themselves from birthing in the new republic. We were lucky they managed to pull out from themselves by brute will such extraordinary wisdom.
People are the same all over. It's just how they define terms that vary according to cultural values.
And human nature doesn't change. The sky is always falling somewhere and there's always a prophet to tell you how to avoid it. (Send money...)
One of the real jokes on us as a sentient species is that every generation thinks it's the most modern ever. Yeah, but that don't mean what they think it does...
Something tells me that Socrates is smiling somewhere. 😎
I wonder sometimes about that "smell better" thing though...
Me thinks you are a very bright Moon indeed!! 😎
Preach it!!
“ the foundational mission statement of public schooling in the US was not to help children grow, but to mold children into that which was useful and obedient to the state.”
Exactly! This is why I get frustrated when people talk about our “failing” school system. It’s not failing, it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do!
In case y’all missed it, you will like my piece in First Things on how the medical world partners with schools to keep education as Prussian as possible:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/03/medicating-the-masses
And heres a hopefully uplifting piece about what education really looked like in the time of the Founders and how (aside from homeschooling, which is what we do) some of that spirit is coming back in some cool new alternative schooling initiatives:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/if-modern-school-is-a-prison-its
Most of my ancestors were "home schooled." My "family "home had a pretty decent library.
"My `family' home had a pretty decent library".
Mine too. As, I suspect, did, and do, the homes of many of folks who follow our favourite kitty.
Love your writing.... is the usa not a "constitutional" republic, rather than a "democratic" republic?
I noticed that too. I’m not an expert on “-ology, -isms, and -ics ” but I think we are a Constitutional Republic with Democratic voting. Ideally. Before we devolved into a plutocracy, oligarchy, totalitarian slave system with draconian non-voting. Sorry, that’s dark.
Dark - but accurate.