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  433. This may be long but people need to read this. This was what they planned for the West. "Some decades before the first big feminist revolution, a German economist was sitting in a posh London library, furiously penning a book in which he swore up and down that one day, factory workers, abused and oppressed by their bosses for so long, would rise up, throw the bosses out, and take over the factories. He and his coworker died without ever getting to see their vision enacted. As World War I ignited and sent Europe up in flames, those who had read the pair’s work and become enchanted with its utopian vision watched with baited breath to see if the prophecy would be fulfilled. And fulfilled it was...in Russia. For the moment, it would go no further. Through the late teens and early 20s, Europe picked up the pieces, mopped up the blood, and with somewhat mixed results, tried to get on with their lives. There were no workers’ revolts. There were no poor people eating rich people. There was just plain work. To be sure, some of it was supervised by evil bosses, and some of it was done by children. But there were still factories, and those factories still had workers and bosses. What went wrong? Well, for one thing, the workers had just spent five years shooting and bombing each other. There were considerably fewer of them than there had been when Marx wrote Das Kapital. But there was a bigger problem. The few workers that were left just weren’t interested in socialism; especially those who didn’t work in factories. The jobs they had were not great, and frankly their bosses weren’t that great either—but they were surviving. In some cases they were even thriving. Many of them had grown up in poverty, and fought bitterly to escape it. Biting the hand the fed them did not seem like a great idea. Marx was quite nonchalantly disowned by the very demographic he had claimed to speak for. So a tiny cabal of German philosophers, certain of Marx’s veracity, decided on a different pathway to get his influence to the masses. Marx himself had waited for it to happen naturally. Lenin and Trotsky had brought it through a messy revolution. Neither would work with the peoples of the West. Capitalism was too deeply ingrained in the collective psyche. The group of philosophers, known as the “Frankfurt School”, blamed this condition, naturally, on those who had suborned it: Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, A&P, Radio City Music Hall...the list goes on. There was no way they would be able to release society from the addictions it had created for itself. The whole system would have to come down. Only then could something new be built in it’s place. The thinkers of the Frankfurt School were under no illusions that this would be an easy task. The destruction of five thousand years of tradition would not happen overnight, and it would not happen by itself. The first step was to get people to not like their society—to see it the way the Frankfurt school did. Having been rejected by their original audience, the Frankfurt School thinkers needed a new proletariat. That hadn’t worked in the microcosm in which Marx had tried it. But, why, the thought occurred to them, stop with just one group? What if they could create many proletariats? After all, history had given them plenty of other collective grievances and class struggles. The Civil War was only about six decades gone. The working poor in their arguments could be expanded to the poor in general, who could then be turned against the robber barons. And of course, the suffragettes were still embroiled in their struggle against the patriarchy. So Herbert Markuse and his Frankfurt School companions set out to make their case. They began by advocating for the end of everything that seemed too “normal” to them: marriage, jobs, music, philosophy, art...if socialism hadn’t produced it, then it was evil. The very world around you, they would say today, is an illusion; a gilded cage, if not created, then at least aided and exploited, by those in power to keep you blinded to the fact that you were a serf, enslaved by a powerful elite who would always enjoy power and privilege at your expense, that you will never have access to. And just who were these mysterious oppressors? That depended on who these new socialists were talking to. If you were poor, it was men like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and the bands of powerful corporate executives who followed them. If you were black, it was the whites who had enslaved your grandparents, and would have enslaved you if not for the brave progressives that had fought for the Thirteenth Amendment. (It was, in fact, Republicans who had fought for the Thirteenth Amendment—I’ll discuss the progressives’ chameleon-like ability to change political positions a bit later.) And if you were a woman, it was the men in your lives who had deceived you into marrying them, forced you into roles decided for you by society, against your will, and were routinely having their way with you at night. These progressive thinkers possessed a unique ability to figure out what made you as an individual angry—to find your mental weak point, and then tell you a story that you could relate to; that pressed the right buttons. Then they would offer you their antidote to this oppression, which was always revolution, followed by Marxism. Steinem and her misandrist followers were a product of this movement. The feminism of the 1960s, and the feminism of today, are not really feminist at all. They were just one of many disparate movements that had been co-opted by the progressives, and amalgamated into one big proletariat. No longer was socialism a workers’ movement that sought control of factories—it was now a struggle by anyone who had a grievance, against whoever had aggrieved them." From my upcoming book, "Silver Towers and Flying Cars: The Illusion of Progressivism, and the Reality"
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  797.  @rogergeyer9851  . . . well I guess you have reading comprehension problems as I said "as a whole". Do doctors & dentists need 2 years of general core classes and pre-req's in order to perform their job? Do they need womens' studies or African Civ or Sociology? So if my father was a dentist and I worked with him for 5 years learning all I could about dentistry in order to take over his business and I was able to take 10 to 20 very useful classes do you not think I'd be just as capable, if not more capable, than a fully schooled dental student just out of school? Now you're right that maybe a little more schooling for a Medical Doctor is necessary. But not as much as they put them through. Or how about this. . . I think in order to get your college degree and become certified in a profession we should have students go to college for 8 years. That means they'll be even more educated and better at their jobs right? And if not 8 years. . . how about just 6 years. You see how silly a time of 4 to 5 years is. . .it's arbitrary. Especially since much of that curriculum is unnecessary. I'm an accountant. I can tell you right now that you don't need a 4 year degree to work in accounting. You probably need maybe 10 good classes and some real world experience working in the real world under many different industries because accounting for each industry is different and if you think it's not then you're just thinking of a book keeping staff accountant. I work on my own vehicles. I've gotten pretty good at it. I just finished my basement from the studs, drywall, tape and mudd, electrical, plumbing, flooring, etc. . . all of it. I fix my own appliances. I try to do everything. And platforms like youtube have been a game changer. Most people learn by doing things and have to do something after they learn it from a book/classroom in order to fully retain it. And those that are good at learning in a classroom are usually not good at "doing". Do you understand the macroeconomic inefficiencies that are created by useless college curriculum? Students study in order to get a good grade on the exam and forget half of what they thought they might have learned by the time next semester rolls around. And most students have no idea what they want to do because they have no real world experience. So they change majors 3 times and then eventually pick their final major by their junior year because they have to graduate in something. So now you have a mismatch of desire, passion, skill set, competency, etc. which creates unseen inefficiencies in the market. Someone may be smart enough to be an Engineer but they're cut from he cloth of an electrician. And you wonder why inflation is increasing. You can attribute it to government spending, lack of supply, national debt, lack of workers, etc. but some of that is related to college. Student loans, lack of skilled trades, many students not finding a job good enough to pay off those student loans, mismatch of skill set, etc. Anyway, I can go on and on for hours about this. And yes I will stand by my original argument that our "education" as a whole is not benefiting society.
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