Being sent to school is more like being inducted into the military. Indeed, that’s exactly what those old Prussians wanted, a system that trained children for future roles as warriors for the State. Dressed in their Teufelsdrockh-finest, graduates get to feed Leviathan and then die.

School doesn’t represent a punishment. Similarly, prisons don’t let convicts go home at the end of the day.

“Education: Free & Compulsory” by Murray Rothbard. If you think schools are prisons, the man himself is ready to teach you better.

Mr. Guffey lists three of some of the most relevant books written for our time, which were required reading when i was in high school. And now, they are “threatening” to english departments in university? Ha ha. If that’s not deliberate dumbing down, i don’t know what is. Would any of us be surprised?

Much gets lost during the whole process that can rarely be recovered, especially originality.

I do believe that art, and music, and creative writing can all help break through this sick insistence on “right answers.” Having to fit their multidimensional souls into an incredibly limited, powerless and weak expression of humanity as pushed by the schools and the media, is something that quite naturally sickens people and makes them physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually ill.

And yet …. and yet … the profound potential of the human soul continues to express itself in this world, and as times get worse, the very best of what is within us will of necessity rise to the forefront. And all the phony machinations and propaganda of those who work based on fear, shall fall away like so much dust in the wind.

Every child born has unique genius just itching to express itself, but the system puts them in a box of rote expectation and the fruit rots off the vine. Thus a nation (world) of restless redundancy. No wonder it is exploding into violence! When every cell is bursting with imaginative possibility, rebellion against the mundane is inevitable and necessary. LIFE will find a way.