My dear friend, I understand.
This is one of the problems with E Communication. We speak too soon because we cannot know the context through electronic media.
Empathy is all I have my friend. Anyone would be angry after spending any amount or time at RMA. It is natural to assume that anyone who was even indirectly connected with CEDU would currently contain evil.
I did benifit from the tyranny of the place by living on campus while my wife worked there. I would like to qualify that by stating that the benifit was financial only. The emotional and personal part was devistating.
CEDU turned my wife into a mean person who yelled and screamed as a general rule of communication. After a few years of that, she went silent, passive aggressive, and she addopted a superior condisending hatered toward me.
I suppose that some of it was justified. I have not been the best person all of my life. I have made many mistakes. When we met, I was a high school drop out carpet cleaner with a wild and selfist past and an unsophisticated maverick nature. I guess you could say that I wasn't always a good person, but I worked hard to become a better person - but the maveric remained. To this day, that side of me is not admired by many, But, in this violent, soulless conformist, elitest, materialistic wasteland it is all I hold dear.
If CEDU would have worked hard to evolve, to get educated, to open up, to love instead of damn others, then, like me, they would have become successful but not perfect. That would be enough.
It has been said that at any given time one can be judged by what he produces in his life. We all produce good and bad and the scale best be heaver on the side of good. I weigh myself on that scale and make corrections often.
CEDU would do well to do the same. But, I think the initial data would be more than the human psyche could handle.
This is why they run from the truth and refuse to change. I, for one, am convinced that they will never change. I spent three years of my life handing them the truth and the answers to save them from disintegration. They rejected the data, rejected me and chose to continue to disintegrate.
Consequently, all we must do to save the children and families trapped by that patronizing narcissistic reflection so liberally handed out is to make it known what they have done, what they will do, and watch the grape die on the vine.
I hope we all continue to make it our responsibility to "remove the stumbling stone" from the path of our brothers at CEDU, staff and students alike. They are all victims of that evil mirror reflecting a false perception of perfection that makes us all into people we don't like.
As we said before: Strength and Beauty Come From Us - Not Tyranny.
Love to you and all
