hypnolibertarian

For some time I have spoken of specific things that affect our minds in one way or another.  Now I’d like to talk about some of the institutional constructs that fashion our thinking, and the reactions we have both as children and adults.  These institutions create the patterns, the norms that make up our society.  They are the most powerful hypnotic agents we have.  They take children and adults and produce crowds that think similarly.  They are not “robot makers,” but they determine the broad patterns of how almost all of us think.

First and foremost is our parents; however, I will cover that in a future post.  A close second is our schools.  The school system is the best mechanism for indoctrination that we have.  From before first grade, in kindergarten, the school system takes up the primary part of your children’s day, teaching them, babysitting them, and (where I come in) indoctrinating them.  In general, indoctrination is nothing complex; it comes of simple repetition of a concept to minds who are not in a position to protest.  Children do not just learn to read and write.  They learn about the food pyramid, and that drugs are bad, and that Carol has two mommies, and that everyone is equal, and that it is dangerous to stick out from the mass.  Some of these things are taught purposely, and some are simply part of the context in which the kids spend their time.

Some of this is quite deliberate.  The people in the education establishment (which has some relationship to the federal government, but is not totally controlled by them) decides that a certain “lesson” needs to be taught.  This may be that homosexual sex is not a sin and that gay people are victims of prejudice, to the kinds of food they should eat, to what is important in life.  These are decisions that affect us for our entire lives, and don’t think that the corporations don’t know it.  They offer “educational material” and free handouts and lots of things that come to the schools, which they will use because it is easy.  Does anyone else remember films by Archer Daniels Midlands when you were in school about how important corn was, and how it can be turned into ethanol?  I do.  And now we are making ethanol while prices rise on food from the lack of corn and it takes more energy to create a gallon of ethanol from corn than it delivers in a car.  Corn farmers are delighted, especial the big ones (ADM).  No one else should be.

All this because ADM plans for the future and inculcated the idea of ethanol 30 years ago or more.  The schools are the place to mold the minds of children.  Children are turning in their parents for drug possession.  I’m not saying drug possession is good, but it shows the power of the schools, to indoctrinate them to turn in their own parents (although the home situation of most drug taking families may have something to do with it as well).

Think back to your school days.  What messages were given to you that you now question?  Did you believe them then?  Which ones do you not question?  Are you sure they are right, or are you conditioned to accept them?

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