As our primary and secondary schools continue producing proportionately more Bs and Cs endowed with incompetence, incuriosity, and ignorance of American civics and values, so does our society proportionally shift toward socialism, wokeness, and DEI. I might add that a growing proportion who substitute identity and self for faith in a hig…
As our primary and secondary schools continue producing proportionately more Bs and Cs endowed with incompetence, incuriosity, and ignorance of American civics and values, so does our society proportionally shift toward socialism, wokeness, and DEI. I might add that a growing proportion who substitute identity and self for faith in a higher power and service to others is a cofactor in the race to the bottom.
It's not that the schools are producing more Bs and Cs. They are.
It's that the Bs don't just _hire_ Cs. They vote for them as well. And the Cs vote for Cs. And can't tell the difference between a C and a D so will vote for Ds as well. Silvia Garcia is a C at best. Fetterman can't even be there.
If qualifications are no longer prioritized because they have been vilified as the emphasis of whiteness/patriarchy/racism/transphobia/homophobia/bigotry/etc this is the result.
My thought is that things are less insidious than Gato is stating. Wokeness is less of a factual/intellectual pursuit, and more of an emotional trap.
What makes it insidious is that the people in charge hold to these principles and have clearly demonstrated their willingness to punish those who don't.
Actually Adam, wokeness is a particularly loathsome, soul destroying, form of mental illness. And sadly, the disease seems viral-ly contagious. It not only destroys the afflicted, it seems to terminally infect the society in which the sufferer resides.
I agree that it's about emotions, and that's why wokeness is impervious to reason.
When someone can gain so much emotionally _and_ financially by claiming "discrimination" and find an army of similarly incompetent people strongly motivated to believe and support him or her, it's literally a no-brainer.
That's why we need the Israeli system: paper ballots, in person at local school, election day only, tallied up by members of all parties until the totals agree for that school.
But who among the officials elected by the machines is ever going to implement that?
The good news is that I don't think incuriosity is terminal. I think I was incurious for years, or rather, my curiosity was distracted by other frivolous activities. But once I was told I had to participate in the pathology, I got very curious.
Every movement is a religion and every religion is a cult, and higher power may be defined any way anybody needs to. Group thinking and enforced articles of faith were the model that got us here, too.
As our primary and secondary schools continue producing proportionately more Bs and Cs endowed with incompetence, incuriosity, and ignorance of American civics and values, so does our society proportionally shift toward socialism, wokeness, and DEI. I might add that a growing proportion who substitute identity and self for faith in a higher power and service to others is a cofactor in the race to the bottom.
It's not that the schools are producing more Bs and Cs. They are.
It's that the Bs don't just _hire_ Cs. They vote for them as well. And the Cs vote for Cs. And can't tell the difference between a C and a D so will vote for Ds as well. Silvia Garcia is a C at best. Fetterman can't even be there.
I just hope the As are all really voting better.
If qualifications are no longer prioritized because they have been vilified as the emphasis of whiteness/patriarchy/racism/transphobia/homophobia/bigotry/etc this is the result.
My thought is that things are less insidious than Gato is stating. Wokeness is less of a factual/intellectual pursuit, and more of an emotional trap.
What makes it insidious is that the people in charge hold to these principles and have clearly demonstrated their willingness to punish those who don't.
Actually Adam, wokeness is a particularly loathsome, soul destroying, form of mental illness. And sadly, the disease seems viral-ly contagious. It not only destroys the afflicted, it seems to terminally infect the society in which the sufferer resides.
I agree that it's about emotions, and that's why wokeness is impervious to reason.
When someone can gain so much emotionally _and_ financially by claiming "discrimination" and find an army of similarly incompetent people strongly motivated to believe and support him or her, it's literally a no-brainer.
Voting,schmoting! Who manufactures/monitors the voting machines?
That's why we need the Israeli system: paper ballots, in person at local school, election day only, tallied up by members of all parties until the totals agree for that school.
But who among the officials elected by the machines is ever going to implement that?
The good news is that I don't think incuriosity is terminal. I think I was incurious for years, or rather, my curiosity was distracted by other frivolous activities. But once I was told I had to participate in the pathology, I got very curious.
Yes, my experience too. Maybe we are the new woke
Do you have a website? You make me howl, which, at breakfast, is some doing!
I do have my substacks. Visual Banter, is my main one. I also have an art site I need to update. It is jimmygleesonvisualbanterandliteraryillustration.com
Every movement is a religion and every religion is a cult, and higher power may be defined any way anybody needs to. Group thinking and enforced articles of faith were the model that got us here, too.
I am going to misquote a "Meet the Fokkers" line that Robert Dinero delivered.
"I just made a bowel movement, is that also a religion?"
Yes. Mr. Hanky is my deity.
Coprophilians might best answer that question.
Right on !