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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

I've also concluded that the purpose of schooling is to make people never willingly pick up a book again. You captured the painful analysis of 'literature' well. It got me to re-up my subscription.

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Steenroid's avatar

Thank goodness I ignored them. However as I’ve gotten older I don’t read as many books. I’m too busy reading my Substacks.

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Lauderdale Local's avatar

I’ve often thought the same...almost like exposing kids too young to grasp their meanings to the most timeless and important writings actually served to “inoculate” them against the urge to read them as adults, thereby constraining their future literary landscape to “new” books. A pretty dirty trick, if that’s really what’s happening.

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Gary Ogden's avatar

Tereza: Maybe that's why I hated school (but loved the few really good teachers). I've always loved to read, and normally spend 2-5 hours each day reading, while having a very active life outside hiking, gardening, chatting with neighbors, making stuff, and playing with the cats

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

That sounds like a great life, Gary. Yay for really good teachers! Learning is one of the greatest joys in life and it's wasted on the young, especially mandatory force-fed crap that's regurgitated on exams. My book is about a different economic system and in this episode I apply it to education, in a way that I think would be fun: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/reinventing-education.

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BlazeCloude3's avatar

ALMOST...This was engrossing; so ingrained in the ways of life; until the United State's Constitution provided the RIGHT to 'Private Property' where for the first time in the west 'the peasants/serfs/people' (slaves) could own their own land to fish, hunt, grow their own food. Finally, their work's benefits were their own.

Among the older set having the opportunity to learn real history, it's no secret of knowing STARVATION/TAXATION/WAR IN ALL LANDS HAD BEEN DELIBERATE as a method of depopulation through all time by the Master who owned the land; Imperialists with the Peers doing no work for their own keep, as Lords over all.

Going to wait till the next one presents.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

I thought that got replaced with the nebulous and ephemeral 'right to happiness.'

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BlazeCloude3's avatar

Of course, you're correct...And, there aren't that many young people remotely well-versed with the Constitution to know "Private Property" to be mentioned in two areas of the document; insured, as NEVER in any other region of the world. Few have travelled outside of the U.S. and don't know that even in Canada, THE CROWN OWNS ALL LAND and there is no GOD-GIVEN INALIENABLE RIGHTS MENTIONED IN THEIR CONSTITUTION guaranteeing any. THERE'S only fealty to The Crown of England... As displayed at the Coronation Ceremony of Ding-a-Ling King/Dictator Up-Chuck as Warrior for RELIGIONS...Instead of even the Anglican Christian Church as tradition dictates. Canadians especially, have no right to 'Private Property' and are thus, SLAVES EVEN TO THIS DAY. Few in the current age have any knowledge to know our families once refered to as peasants/serfs who were really SLAVES starved, were cold, sick, weak and illiterate without opportunity to learn when living under the conditions in Europe the Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders do today.

It may be too much to hope for; but if only one person not so knowledgable to know 'Private Property' so revolutionary as part of 'The Pursuit of Happiness'; then the purpose is served here. Property ISN'T A RIGHT...IT MUST BE EARNED AND PURSUED...Earning and pursuing is the INALIENABLE RIGHT...NOT HAVING.

It's an important distinction seeminly lost in the Communist idea of 'EQUITY' which is absurd.

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feldspar's avatar

Haven't you heard? Property is theft. Police! Police! Police!

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BlazeCloude3's avatar

Have heard...NOT VERY ACCEPTING HERE. Police and Foreigners now inhabiting the Military willing to murder U.S. Citizens to replace them as willing slaves BETTER BEWARE. Some out here are NOT soft, stupid, gullible or unskilled with defense...OR, OFFENSE.

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feldspar's avatar

You sound like Moe with machine guns.

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BlazeCloude3's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 HARDLY!

Work very hard to run our school

and our other community matters.🌞

Am NOT a Bubba!!!🙏🏻

Am a🐑🐕.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

My book, How to Dismantle an Empire, goes into depth about the Constitution as a coup that replaced the right of community self-governance and economic autarky with three piddling 'gifts': post offices, postal roads and patent protection. I write about it here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-constitutional-convention-coup.

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BlazeCloude3's avatar

WONDERFUL...You're on the ball. Providing necessary information for those seeming to have awakened and now searching for it. The numbers are growing with the knowledge of 'Conspiracy' being reality instead of theory...Especially, with the threat inherent to Premeditated Mass Genocide and 'OLD World Slavery'.

Been quite stunning for so many having no connections into knowledge of the actual 'Conspiracy' to be more than theory with the Fascist Nazi Ideology as that chosen to rule the world. The actual web with these spiders has been an awakening for many; like me...As the extent and escalation in such short duration of time was unexpected. KNEW SOMETHING HUGE WAS COMING FOR DECADES AND DESPISED THOSE AS KISSINGER, Clinton, Bush and so many others. Didn't quite grasp the reasons for such visceral disgust...And, now know it was spiritual and a discernment from God to the presence of malevolent evil and motives to perpetrate with impunity.

VERY HAPPY PEOPLE AS YOU HAVE WROTE BOOKS TO ADDRESS THE RISING NEEDS OF THOSE NOW CONSCIOUS TO HIDDEN HISTORY SEEKING INFORMATION.

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