Wisdom in One Paragraph

The way this works is that someone like me will talk about how the universities have fallen, and how the 'woke SJW' zeitgeist has destroyed much of the young population's ability to reason.  Removed from the curriculum and the minds of these young people are the underpinnings of Western Culture.  The tenets of the West created this part of the world we're in, and there is much to learn about and celebrate.

The universities have ruined this concept by using all the usual epithets.  The problem is that the 'students' they create are ignorant and arrogant.  This combination is lethal.  The paragraph below, clipped from The Woodpile Report, sums it up better than I could:

British Working Class Literacy - a Staple of the West

The literacy levels of the past, and the acquisition of letters by the working class is recounted here in this great article on Aeon. The idea that people were illiterate farmhands until the creation of 'school'.  This is not only untrue, it is the opposite of the way it was.

"There were many cheap mass-market series of ‘classics for the masses’ in the 19th century, and organised working-class educators made full use of them. In London, the Working Men’s College became nationally famous under Sir John Lubbock, its principal between 1883 and 1899. Lubbock drew up a list of the 100 books it was most important for a working man to read. The proportion of classical authors is remarkable: Homer, Hesiod, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Plutarch’s Lives, Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, Augustine’s Confessions, Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo, Demosthenes’ De Corona, Xenophon’s Memorabilia and Anabasis, Cicero’s On Duties, On Friendship and On Old Age, Virgil, plays by all the tragedians, Aristophanes’ Knights and Clouds, Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus’ Germania, and Livy. In addition, two famous works on ancient history, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-89) and George Grote’s A History of Greece (1846-56), make it on to the list as necessary reading for any educated person, along with the most popular novel then in existence set in antiquity, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). After 1887, the classical riches on the bookshelf of the working-class self-educator can, in large measure, be attributed to Lubbock’s ideal curriculum."

Again, the focus on taxpayer funded school as the only way to educate is going to be one of the things the archeologists of the past will be confused about, especially when we honestly look back at instances like what is shown in this article.

Pew Die Pie Quits Twitter and YouTube

There has been a disturbance in the Force.

PDP has decided that the SJW infested, censorship heavy sites Twitter and YouTube are no longer worthy of his millions of followers and billions of views.

This is great.

The Keepers of the Narrative think that by policing speech and removing dissident voices they will win the day.  Eventually the rot of SJW progressivism gets to people like Pew Die Pie, and he has enough money and clout to leave.  Vox Day, on his site, has repeatedly urged people to build your own platform.

The exodus from the Tech Giants has officially begun.  This is a good day.

Emma Goldman Understood Teaching and Learning

I got to this link from Woods and Malice doing their thing on Tom Woods' podcast.  They spoke about Emma Goldman.  I had heard her name, knew when she did her thing, and I knew she was an anarchist.

Turns out she was a fascinating person, righteously unafraid of the truth.

A small quote from her on the masses - getting people's minds changed as well as rousing them into action shows that Goldman understood how people were wired:

"My great faith in the wonder worker, the spoken word, is no more. I have realized its inadequacy to awaken thought, or even emotion. Gradually, and with no small struggle against this realization, I came to see that oral propaganda is at best but a means of shaking people from their lethargy: it leaves no lasting impression. The very fact that most people attend meetings only if aroused by newspaper sensations, or because they expect to be amused, is proof that they really have no inner urge to learn.

It is altogether different with the written mode of human expression. No one, unless intensely interested in progressive ideas, will bother with serious books. That leads me to another discovery made after many years of public activity. It is this: All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. Already this truth is recognized by most modern educators in relation to the immature mind. I think it is equally true regarding the adult. Anarchists or revolutionists can no more be made than musicians. All that can be done is to plant the seeds of thought. Whether something vital will develop depends largely on the fertility of the human soil, though the quality of the intellectual seed must not be overlooked."

The highlighted part is the key to it all.  Persuasion and changing minds is almost impossible.  Only when the student is ready will the teacher emerge.

How to Crack the Conformity

Sometimes you know something is wrong, and you're afraid to go against the group.  Peer pressure can be a frightening force.  Devon Stack of 'Black Pilled' goes through the Asch Conformity Experiments and let's you know what one person can do.

What can one person do?  He can do this:

G.E.D. Report # 39 - Fluoride Has Made You Stupid

We speak about many things in the Senior Public Speaking classes. I am about to venture into Right Wing Conspiracy Kookery by introducing them to the Fluoride in the Water section of the Conspiracy Community. Unlike you, the teenagers are interested by topics like this, and they don't turn off their brains, fling their skirts over their heads and start screaming when they hear things like this. It's going to be a lot of fun, just like all the other cool things we talk about in class regularly. What are you talking about in your classes? 

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They're Laughing at Us.

You have to be kidding me.

Only a population that is bonded into intellectual slavery, schooled into oblivion, would believe something like this.