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Humans
who survive the womb continue rudimentary survival under the plutocracy of
international banks, energy harvesters, pharmaceutical distributors, land
owners, and security enforcers. Children
are washed into compliance. Caesarian
section is preferable to vaginal birth, formula to breast milk, and a baby
Einstein video to a face. Submitting to
the morphed authority figure of the Meme varies depending on what country one
is blessed or burdened to be born into, let alone what house within that
country.
School brings Zyprexa and
Risperdal to focus. The lunch time
cafeteria brings soy bean and corn subsidies, devastated permaculture, and
mono-crops with Monsanto-pesticide bee disappearances and lawsuits over genetic-seed
patents inside the ammonia-rinsed hamburger patty. ADM, Cargill, Dole, Tyson grow and Coca Cola,
Pepsi, Kraft, and Nestle serve.
Traditional classrooms have
students politely and orderly raising hands in lined rows with a lecture
format. Modern classrooms often split in
pods. The loudest speaker is valued over
the best idea. Ideas are often trampled
in sound.
In class, “No Child Left Behind”
and “Race to the Top” prioritize teaching to the test. This voids critical thinking and
innovation. Mono-students are bred. Americans are particularly incapable of
acknowledging our tiered capabilities.
Intelligence quotients due to genetic capability are a dominant factor
in educational aptitude. The most
important person beyond the self in educating a human is not the teacher, but
the parent(s).
A small array of teachers rotates
by the hour and by semester as a child progresses in school. Learning begins in the womb. Socialization, environmental detours, which
correlate with a young student’s sleeping, eating, and sequestration patterns
for thought for both homework and observation of the value of education in
daily life vary by what a child is privileged or subjected to label as family.
The Meme ignores these realties
because the answer is ownership of volition.
The Meme prefers to blame the education system first rather than
genetics or home environment, which trump the often marginal differences
between schools. If the school can be
seen as the determining factor, education can be marketed as a free market good
and giant tuition bills can be extracted for private schools and all
universities. Religions also benefit
from the degradation of the public school system. This creates an educational system mirroring
and distancing the wealth disparity the Meme craves.
If schools are seen as more
crucial then parents, then parents can take a more passive role to
education. This creates politically
docile citizens comfortable assuming the government, social system, and
education are capable and performing due care of the education of their
progeny. The system is
self-perpetuating. A parent will often
be less cognizant of what their child lacks in information if they were
commensurately under-educated. The Meme
can recycle with less opposition.
Instead of pumping funds into
administrative evaluation of standardized knowledge, the more relevant issues
of poverty such as child care, tutoring, the tools a parent can use to continue
life-long learning such as integrated web-based educational infrastructure,
nutritional assistance, and community violence should be viewed as the core of
the knowledge gap in Poor communities.
This is entirely anti-Meme.
Rather than designing schools to
adjust for the limits of the many, we acquiesce to the futility of the
few. Rather than empower teachers to
adapt schools and classrooms for limitations, the American education system
often attempts to force round pegs through square holes. This is directly correlated with the Meme.
The Meme wishes to encourage a
level of interchangeability amongst the masses.
The perception of potential achievement, the lottery-win ideal, is
essential to perpetuating the myths of faith, hope, and eternal salvation. If a human is told he has a seventy-five IQ
and his best hope is minimum wage for the next fifty years, a revolt might
erupt right there. It often does in an
indirect byproduct of the human seeing little value in the false pursuit of
additional ill-fit education the school attempts to provide.
Under god each soul is special
and a unique creation. The anti-meme
acknowledges the mental runts of the litter.
The anti-Meme permits humans to be fallible and accepts the stark
realities of stupidity.
The Meme attempts to treat adults
as children and adolescents as infants.
The Meme teaches non-college graduates are failures. This sabotages trade schools, associates
degrees, and non-four-year college post high school matriculation. This shames the realms of the mechanic, cook,
nurse, bus driver, etc. into being less human.
These role-fillers in society are not afforded the respect of a sir or
mam. (The very words sir and mam are
pro-Meme. The idea that an office,
title, or position awards respect rather than innate life or humanity being
sufficient to install mutual respect is pro-Meme.)
Instead these roles are
dehumanized into faceless losers of the communicated common goal of the Meme,
which is not productive value, but the perception of achievement. Ultimately the order of humans striving for a
college degree can serve as both debt-noose and profit-hammer.
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Modern
children are taught to be monitored by their parents to all sorts of cell
phones and GPS devices as if child abduction is rampant. The Meme thrives on this obsessive fear where
a potential threat can exploit a mythical reality. The true threat is not kidnapping, but
disobedience. Trusting an adolescent’s
volition is anti-Meme. Law and order is
required, which necessitates the monitoring of the fourth commandment. This
makes adult humans more pliable to the surveillance state by our governments.
Sports teach kids
about authority watching. The spectrum
of attention from authority figures including parents, coaches, and the crowd
directs everything a five year-old will need to process stepping on a soccer
field. Children learning football,
baseball, or gymnastics etc. span from the extrovert extreme of impressing to
the introvert extreme of disappointing authority figures.
Sports train
younglings that reactions to that spectrum are not only relevant, but
paramount. The ability to pass or kick a
ball is secondary to the observable reactions from authority figures when one
does so proficiently or not. Rule
consciousness, dependency, submission and dominance are learned.
Athletes
may make the sign of the cross after scoring.
If one equates one’s athletic ability and success to god’s will, then
what is god conveying to invalids? What
do we make of the five-foot-five try-outs who never make the team?
Pro Meme sports encourage
parents to pay for photographs of their kids’ preseason and post season with
commemorative frames and trophies. The
focus is on how it looks, as if the play time was not worth remembering without
the dignity of a conformity photograph.
This is a helicopter-parent not letting go and allowing the time was
worthy to just be internal. The value is
in the external to the Meme.
Sports or
fraternity-related hazing rituals of replicated experiences of torture,
embarrassment and ignominy equate to subjugation to the central authority. Teammates and brotherhoods demonstrate
replicated submission.
A school principal
witnessing the violation of other school rules by athletes or frat-boys hazing may
tolerate the act. Implicit encouragement
of such behavior overlaps the common authoritarian meme. “Look at
how the baseball team shaved his head and made him wear it to class for the
week! (Oh isn’t that against school
rules?) Technically it is, but the Dean likes it!” This is all under the authority of the fourth
commandment, obey.
(In an aside to
the third commandment, if theists really believed in prayer, theist-schools
would compete with each other through prayer.
Two teams could each pray to god
for a cure, a result, or a sentiment to pass.
This is sacrilege to the second commandment. The hypocrisy inside the fourth commandment
that god is always monitoring prompts
the prayer. If one is to expect no
measurable response then one is left wanting to validate the purpose of prayer
beyond fueling the Meme. In this
instance we can see why the Meme is anti-prayer being used as a sport. One is taught to pray and leave to god’s discretion. If one demands or never asks one is left
fruitless. If something happens that
correlates with the prayer it is a blessing, if not that is also a mysterious
disguised blessing.)
The other major
component of afterschool has been television.
Television needs little elaboration as to the easy indoctrination,
commercialization, obedience, comfort, order, and systematic control the screen
can provide for the Meme. Television
keeps humans calm, occupied and far less likely to revolt against authority and
more likely to go to war for authority depending on the current dominate
discretion of the Meme. Television can
help the Meme entwine institutional messages in a steady global stream.
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Modern college
students are taught about inescapable debt to faceless banks. Unlike home or vehicle debt, student-loans
are linked with a special un-severable manacle.
This debt funnels young people to serve the Meme. Volition must submit to Sallie-Mae’s monthly
extraction. The contents of one’s brain
become owned by another. Whether such
knowledge was useful, productive, or valuable, the tithe must be paid.
Passing a test and
getting a degree and a transcript from a marketed billboard with words like
Harvard-as the pinnacle, even if Harvard taught you the same as the University
of Kentucky, the knowledge is less valuable than the perception of
knowledge. We are taught to become
vessels of the external rather than the internal. The Meme does not want us diving
internal. Fashion, certification, and
resumes trump knowledge, capability, and the chaos of critical thinking.
Once one is hooked
into paying the student loan payments, the credit cards, rent and eventually a
mortgage one is numbed to protest.
Activism is subdued. This serves
the Meme whether it is under the parental fourth-commandment of a dictator or
the illusion of democracy behind a one-party plutocracy.
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