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Yet again I find myself wondering why I never actually learned anything in school, and that only through constantly studying on my own do I actually learn about the world.
WTF School? Why you suck so bad? ![]() Been reading a lot about China and the Cultural Revolution lately. Looking up documentaries and books. It's really frightening but fascinating stuff. Especially because it almost was happening within my lifetime. So in the sense of history, this was very recent. It's really amazing reading about people being completely stripped of their rights and property "For the greater good." Fearing their neighbors and their own children. Being 'blacklisted' because of their family relations or connections. Being told what to wear, where to go, what to eat, what to read. Jeez,...it just boggles the mind. Communism is one of those weird things where on paper, it kinda makes sense. You think, "Sure,...everyone working for the greater good. What's so bad about that?" But then when you start reading first hand accounts of it being implemented, it's actually really scary. So much history to catch up on. It's so hard educating yourself when you're a victim of the American public school system. When all you've been taught is how to pass standardized exams. ....but I digress. If anyone reading this has no idea what I'm talking about, look up The Chinese Cultural Revolution. It's fascinating. |
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Luckily you seem well able to learn on your own.
Communism does sound good, but its been shown to be as corrupt/corrupting as all the rest. Its about time someone had another go... maybe capitunism(!), all the incentives of capitalist culture, but with the things we all need run by the state. |
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The exaltation of the group above the individual almost always results in great evils being done.
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I know an artist that was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.
He was forced to paint pictures of Mao, and had to use only red and yellow. He was jailed for making a crack at a party meeting about Mao. He looked at the various paintings on the wall as they went from Marx, through Lenin, Stalin, and then Mao. He said, "you notice how the leaders get worse as they get get less facial hair." This is one of Uncle Chen's deer painting.
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Because learning leads to thinking, and thinking leads to ideas, and ideas lead to revolution. The powers that be can't have that. They want us just smart enough to be a cog in the machine.
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We should be teaching things like economics, American history, Constitutional history and history...all from an unbiased perspective. Kids in secondary and post secondary school should learn how to think and not what to think.
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Communism is fascinating. And it scares the hell out of me. People consider that system as good because of MONEY and POSSESSION... While equality is a good thing, I don't believe that freedom is really a fair trade for it. I don't want my potential limited to serve everyone else. That system is as much ruined by greed as ours is, but at the least, we get something that we work for, even if it still isn't really fair. |
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Just bear one thing in mind, if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow!
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"some" schools being the key part of that sentence. I agree it should unbiased truth. But it's incredibly difficult to teach "truth" when it seems that for the most part , no one in this country can agree on one god damn thing. |
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I think originally, they were hoping for a communist revolution in the more well to do nations of Europe, but they had to settle for Russia...
What I took from it was that it was never really meant to work in poor, underdeveloped nations. |
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Mal, if you found that interesting, give this a read:
Ten Days that Shook the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We seem to be headed that way, a piece at a time... Just look at the pot 9/11 hysteria... People clamoring for more security and protection, and to hell with privacy and rights. Spying on library records and reading habits. Rendering. "Enhanced interrogation". Secret tribunals issuing secret warrants (if any warrants were even requested). Indeterminate detainment at GITMO without trial. The "if you have nothing to hide..." TSA conducting random "unreasonable search and seizure" with no warrant or probable cause and others arguing "if you don't like it don't go anywhere". It all makes me sick. Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Damn right we are.
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Capitalism -------------------------- America -------------------------- Socialism The fringe right are every bit as bad as the fringe left. They'd be happy with an America where the constitution and the bible are one in the same, where people are commodities to be bought and sold. And yes, it's peaceful in my moms basement. But it's a party in your wifes basement and everyone's invited. |
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I've been to an Occupy rally, one in Houston and one in Austin. 90% of everyone I met was employed and were not "socialist" ( but the again you're socialist if you support Obamacare ) but rather people who feel government's concern lay in big business and not common man. I agree with the post above discussing Capitalism not existing in America. |
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I don't know any folks on the fringe right and those that are on the fringe right aren't planning May Day activities and aren't in the news carrying commie banners and occupying...while the activist left is. ![]() I myself, enjoy a secular gov't and the Constitutional Republic we were promised. Y U mad bertzie?
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They sure seem to have an infatuation with comparing Obama to Communism though. The fringe right or left are as dangerous as each other. Period.
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I guess what I should have said is not pure capitalism and a mixed economy. |
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Except for the obvious fact that over 200 years have passed since the writing of the constitution and anyone that thinks the miniscule government from then would be sufficient to ensure the stability of the expansive nation we have is frankly an idiot that needs to kill themself. A centralized governmental power is necessary in this day and age because of the simple fact that states are no longer strictly independent entities. With the expansion of transportation technology and non-physical currency and commerce, it would be impossible for any one state to function within a unified country without a central power governing the interstate activities. |
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