Conspiracy? "From the bottom of any large organization looking up through the ranks, human greed and stupidity look a lot like a conspiracy."
--S. Gilbert
I think we're at a point in history where we're reaping the fruits (good and ill) of the industrial revolution. You can learn a whole lot about the original vision and intent of our masters by looking closely at our education system. John Taylor Gatto has done some excellent research into that. Here's one relavent chapter from his book:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/13g.htmThese are no dark, closely held secrets. The intent is quite clear and has always been stated plainly, but in publications and venues not usually read or readily accessible to us plebes. And you can thank those tie dyed hippie stoners who, early on, associated with that renegade John Perry Barlow @ The Well for forcing open a crack in that wall
http://www.well.com/All this fall-out, the psyche drugs and medical drugs that only make us sicker, the prohibitions on good stuff that helps us to be well, this is all, in my opinion, right in line w/ those imutable laws of nature. Specifically, the law of unintended consequences.
Yes, clearly, obviously and openly stated, 'they' set out to 'adjust' the culture and habits of our grandparents who were then the children of 'uncultured' agrarian immigrants. To the industrialists, independent thought among us unwashed masses was a big problem. In order to bring about their Utopia, their
Chataqua, they had to supplant our independence, our native cultures, our un-uniformity. And so they have, to some degree. But I don't think it's a lost cause at all. I think the human spirit is just as strong and imutable as the horse spirit or the dog spirit or the bird spirit. In fact, I rather suspect we're all part of the same spirit. And that spirit is laughing now through our tears.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I'm rambling now, trying to find a way to say something that I think we all already know. Take, for example, a little boy or girl who cannot or will not sit quietly and pretend that the teacher is interesting and worthy of respect or that what she wants the kid to think about is worthy of their attention. That's a problem to someone who takes as a given the idea that schooling must take place for the sake of this child and all the others locked into that room till the pavlovian bell on the wall marks the end of this segment of their 12 year sentence. That problem, the problem of an independent, energetic child who instinctively withholds respect and attention unless someone earns it, can be solved in a number of ways. To the pedagog, it looks for all the world asif they've helped the kid and done a good thing by bringing about this change in the child's will or behavior or even belief.
Just another brick in the road to hell.
So yeah, it is, I think, a grand conspiracy to squash the good and natural and wonderful independent spirit in us. But we'll never convince the true believers of their guilt in this. They think it's a good thing to do to and for us. We just have to hook up w/ others who have recognized the evil in this plan and quit following the plan. That's all.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807059099/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>Mahatma Gandhi, My Autobigraphy, p. 446
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Drug war POW
Straight, Sarasota
`80 - `82
