pan6467

I think the problem lies in the fact that since the 70's we have degraded public education. It is evident more today than it was then, but it still is the biggest problem.

If I were going to turn a great, well educated, wealthy country into a weak, easily controlled populace so that I could control more, I would do what has been done the past 30 years.

First, show how test scores continue to decrease,

get people to start believing that the people who dropped out, dropped out not because they wanted to but because the schools were too tough,

start telling people the public education system is falling apart and cut funding,

start lowering the entertainment factor, put on more escapism, more generic, less thought provoking, mind numbing shows and movies

make the populace believe that manufacturing jobs are belittling and the people who work them stupid

get everything politically correct so that everything taught is extremely generic and degrading to the country (look what the white man did.... he was the greatest evil on Earth to the black man and Indian.... why the Native Americans never had so much as the common cold until the European got here..... or..... the tribes of Africa were strong and united until the white man got there and started capturing them as slaves and paying the stronger tribes to sell their enemies as slaves..... etc etc

go after the system and talk about "how liberal it is" and start creating an "our values" vs. "the liberal educational system's values"

start labeling kids ADD/ADHD and feed them all kinds of medication

get it to where both parents have to work so that the kids lack supervision, then cut any after school program so that they have no choice but to roam the streets.

But best of all keep pounding and pounding the same negative attitudes and news (whether existent or not at first) until enough people believe that the system is broken and start demanding that it be fixed.

Then come in, fix the problem by making public education uniform, mind numbing and promote "hive" thinking not self awareness.

Yes, it would take time but about 50 years in this cycle and you could have that great, well educated and wealthy country controlled and following you without questions.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"