Wednesday, December 23, 2015
A compliant citizenry
China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are, a chilling prospect that could one day arrive in America if social justice warriors get their way. Entitled ‘Sesame Credit,’ the program aims to create a docile, compliant citizenry who are fiscally and morally responsible by employing a game-like format to create self-imposed, group social control. In other words, China gamified peer pressure to control its citizenry; and, though the scheme hasn’t been fully implemented yet, it’s already working — insidiously well.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
This has been the goal of the government-education nexus for the past 150 years--to create a compliant citizenry. Our American education system was modeled on the Prussian system, which was developed after the Napoleonic Wars to created more obedient soldiers and citizens. That is always the goal of totalitarians.
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Are you saying our public education system is there to make a more compliant citizen. Never question the government, etc.? IF so, what makes you believe that? Do you believe it has been successful? If so, how so? i.e. examples.
Please don't consult infowars before answering these questions.
After Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the battle of Jena in 1806, the King of Prussia decided that the reason they lost was because their soldiers were thinking for themselves on the battlefield instead of following orders. This gave rise to the system of public education that was brought to American in the 1850s by Horace Mann. The original objective of this system was that every individual would become convinced in the core of his being that the king was just, his decisions always right, and the need for obedience paramount. The purpose of the system was to instill loyalty to the Crown and to train young men for the military and the bureaucracy. Citizens were expected to follow orders instead of thinking for themselves. They would therefore be "compliant citizens." This is one of the reasons Nazism flourished in Germany.
You can study all this for yourself. There are plenty of resources on the subject. To see how it plays out in America today, I suggest reading the book "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto.
Thanks for not answering my questions.
Are you saying our public education system is there to make a more compliant citizen. Never question the government, etc.? YES.
IF so, what makes you believe that? SEE MY PREVIOUS COMMENT.
Do you believe it has been successful? IT'S A PROCESS.
If so, how so? i.e. examples. SEE "DUMBING US DOWN." THE ANSWER IS TOO LONG AND COMPLEX TO DESCRIBE IN A COMMENT SECTION ON A BLOG.
Dave, I am not arguing with you. I just wanted your opinion. I tend to agree that America has been very much dumbed down over the years. I'm not sure yet if it's to have a compliant citizenry to our government or a compliance citizenry to the rich (which may every well be one and the same). I think it is very prevalent here in the south more than the north. At least more obvious if nothing else.
Woodrow Wilson in 1909 said in a speech, "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." I believe that it is possible that is going on.
I'm not saying that every graduate of a public school is a lackey of the government (parents still have a lot to do with how kids turn out), but I would say that an ever-increasing number are. The lack of education in history in particular is a huge problem. I recently asked a 17-year-old daughter of a friend of mine who we fought in the Revolutionary War and she didn't know. Now if a relatively bright girl about to be a senior in high school doesn't know that basic piece of information, then where are we as a nation? Jefferson said, "The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate the minds of the people." But how much illumination is there in the mind of a high school senior who doesn't know the most basic things about the founding of our country?
Thanks for sharing the Wilson quote. He was also the first president in American history to openly criticize the constraints of the Constitution. As I said, totalitarians depend on the ignorance of the people.
Here in SC there are many people who will tell you the civil war had absolutely nothing to do with slavery. When you tell them to read the secession papers filed by the southern states, they just go into total denial and start calling you a yankee. Today I believe there's a lot of ignorance of the people who actually believe all the stuff Trump says. They will swear on a stack of bibles that Trump will indeed build a 2000 mile wall and have Mexico pay for it He doesn't need any congress to do that. He has found a plethora of dumbed down ones. And a couple of these are the local guys (seniors) that I play golf with in a league. The rest all seem to support Carson which I cannot figure out why. Being a democrat down here is lonely at times.
PS Just got back from my first ever Christmas Day beach walk.
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