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Lack of Critical Thinking is Key to the Corrupt Status Quo Maintaining Their Power
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau
Have you ever noticed how vehemently people react when you question something they believe in instead of ever being able to have an intelligent discussion with him or her? In the below video, Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, author, and war correspondent, nails the reason that explains why it is so difficult to change a person’s mind when they are committed to believing something even when they are confronted with a mountain of evidence that points to the contrary. Chris states that universities have stripped away humanities and other courses that develop critical thinking skills and instead, due to the historical influences of men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, focus on teaching young men and women “what to think” instead of “how to think.”
Like the proverb that states we have two ears and only one mouth so we should listen twice as much as we talk, when we are confronted with actually having our views challenged, many among us fail to listen, fail to analyze, fail to think, and we instead immediately open our mouths in defense without ever seriously considering the contrary information, often in factual form, that has been presented to us. All of us, including yours truly, have been guilty of responding insensitively and unintelligently in this manner, and I believe that there is a reason for this type of response. The powers that be have used education against us by employing teaching methods within institutional academia that condition us to automatically dismiss any notion that might conflict with our internal belief systems that THEY have programmed into us. If you believe that this notion is far-fetched, consider that from 1900 to 1920, at a time when the direction of American education was very much still being molded, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller incredibly spent more money than the entire US government in funding and building the education system to meet their specifications and wishes.
Have you ever thought about why repetition, an integral construct in the effectiveness of brainwashing, is also an integral construct in most institutions of academia in every country of the world? Could education institutions possibly be serving as re-education camps? Should not true learning involve students questioning professors, students questioning students, and professors questioning students not just to repeat and regurgitate pre-packaged responses as is so often the case, but also to critically analyze and to defend one's positions and arguments? The Powers That Be (TPTB) that attend the Bilderberg conference must secretly smile and laugh behind closed doors at the “unthinking” nature that they have been able to instill within us. Refuse to accept something as fact just because an authority figure, whether a professor, the Vatican, or politician, told you to believe it, and automatically many amongst the sheep will accuse one of pandering to conspiracy theories, even when one can present many facts that support one’s opposition view much more strongly than the widely accepted view.
Because universities are so focused on teaching us “what to think” instead of “how to think”, this dumbing down process has produced many media figures and talk show hosts that respond to any questioning of their beliefs with censorship, an attempt to talk over opposition views, or with infantile ad hominem attacks, no matter how cogent and eloquently expressed the opposition view may be. When I lived in Japan, I learned of a Japanese proverb that states, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down”, as if uniqueness and individuality were undesirable traits. Perhaps this may be the case as the status quo views us, their subjects, but certainly humanity should strive to achieve creativity and foster critical thought in order to establish a more moral society and to root out corruption. Furthermore, the deliberate destruction of curricula in institutional academia that fosters critical thinking skills has given way to “hero” worship and learned helplessness instead of self-determination and self-reliance. Again, the status quo delights in the hero culture we have built today. Hero worship leaves one longing for salvation to come on the back of some mythical hero without any commitment or accountability from the masses. The status quo delight in the hero culture that they have built in the minds of the masses as they know that longing for salvation to come from someone else will leave people in a state of learned helplessness-induced inertia and thus create an effective barrier from the manifestation of a "peasant" revolt.
As long as we believe a hero can save us, we will not act and take control of our own fate, and all the easier it is for the powers that be to control us. Have you ever noticed how often someone will defend every fault of their country’s President, a huge pop star, or a star athlete as passionately as they would defend their own family if you should dare criticize their “hero” figure? From a logical standpoint, such defenses are the definition of irrational, as no one can truly know anything substantial or substantive about the character or true nature of a public figure with whom they have not spent a single hour. But yet people very frequently subscribe to the absolutely absurd belief that they know the character of their “hero” intimately and will defend this person’s honor (or dishonor as it may be in many cases) to the end of time. In closing, in addition to Chris Hedge’s video, I will leave you with a video I posted nearly a year-and-a-half ago in which I discuss ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov’s discourse on ideological subversion and how such tactics can produce sheeple that will invariably obey and believe what they are told. Hopefully this will help us identify the ideological subversive tactics that are being deployed against us today all over the world and help all of us to transform into more open-minded people willing to consider alternate viewpoints other than the ones that "the powers that be" commanded us to embrace.
Read Part II of this series here.
Read Part III of this series here.
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Check out: "Some Lessons from the Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto, found in "Everything You Know is Wrong", ISBN 978-1-56731-637-7, pgs 274-287
John Taylor Gatto has written a book indicting the US Public Education System -- look for it online.
I reference Gatto a'plenty.
I also refeference Paco Xander Nathan, "Corporate Metabolism" plenty as well. While just a talk given in 2000, it resonates.
As far as I can tell, we've done an outstanding job of fucking ourselves, especially considering just how well we repsond to the bell, the maze, and the cheese, then spend more time in the system, out of the workforce, achieving whatever it is we have achieved.
I didn't graduate from high school because of my shitty attitude towards that rat wheel.
I am now a computer systems engineer, a rancher, a farmer, a plumber, electrician, mason, carpenter, mechanic, crappy scientist, artist, and an enemy combatant I suppose.
I was a member of the 1% for a while, then bailed out. I put a few bullets through my last TV in 2001, closed all of my credit cards out in 2004, and began to minimize my footprint in this fucking contraption we've created.
And my best postion: I didn't know anything, and I still don't.
I don't own gold, nor will I. But I do recognise bullshit, and I can grow, build, or fix my way out of what the primary economy leaves out at the curb in the economy many of us live in, the one that doesn't show up on the charts and graphs, the one that takes the castoffs and turns them into useful tools outside of the bankers circle and TPTB, the one that spins intrinisic value out of others worn out junk.
The shadow economy, banking, and education system that exist in every community in this country. The one that has the vein popping out in the middle of it's forehead anytime the bullshit gets thrown around as gospel at the Waffle House over greasy eggs, and coffee that never quite makes the cut.
I basically said fuck 'em all in 1980. It worked for a while. I can trade tree cutting for a 2 year old Frigidaire, without having one ounce of effect on the velocity of the dollar. If the one perecnt must have it all, let them have it; at some point their Corvette is going to be sitting by the side of a worn out highway, with a thousand dollar wheel and tire laying in the bar ditch, ripped off by a pothole, and they'll pay me to drag it some dealer to repair, without any idea how to do it themselves. I'll end up giving the money to some poor bastard that's about to lose his house, or need to feed his three kids.
It's beginning to look like the fuckers will still beat me. It's the difference between an old Chevy 350, and a Cadilac Northstar. I can still rebuild one, while the other is a throw away. As the decoupling of that shit continues, at some point I'll have no interaction with the Norhtstars at all.
But the non precious metals are still paying out; crushed Cadilacs, and salvaged aluminum.
If I had any kids, there is no fucking way I'd leave them in the hands of the American education system. I'd teach them how to figure out how much paint it'll take to cover the inside of a house at 4 mil calculated with a pencil on a piece of cardboard. And I'd damn sure teach them to always assume that they know shit about anything.
Don't know about the rest of the folks, but it's getting pretty goddamn sickening trying to point out to a nineteen year old libertarian how electing Ron Paul to fix this mess only amplifies what the last three years have already shown to most of us: One man taking on 600 or so that have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are is nothing more than government gridlock, amplified.
So I try like hell to get people around to crack open Gatto's works and think about how badly they're getting fucked. When all those other avenues fail, get them to Gatto. Sometimes it helps.
Thank god I don't know anything, and never did, and thanks for pointing it out. (honestly).
Yes! Gatto is a rockstar!
Also, check out Charlotte Iserbyte. She was 2nd in the chain at the DOE under Reagan. She found the documents that blew the lid open on the TRUE overall agenda for our education centers. She was a whistleblower and got fired. Her thorough tome (the size of a phone book) has been abridged and reprinted. So far, the only place I can find it for sale is at infowars.com.
The documentation that was left out is available as a PDF on the internet.
Truly fascinating stuff....also very troubling.
"Those ten years (1971-1981) changed my life. As an American who had spent many years working abroad, I had experienced traveling in and living in socialist countries. When I returned to the United States I realized that America's transition from a sovereign constitutional republic to a socialist democracy would not come about through warfare (bullets and tanks) but through the implementation and installation of the "system" in all areas of government-federal, state and local. The brainwashing for acceptance of the "system's" control would take place in the school-through indoctrination and the use of behavior modification, which comes under so many labels, the most recent labels being Outcome-Based Education, Skinnerian Mastery Learning or Direct Instruction. In the seventies I and many others waged the war against values clarification, which was later renamed "critical thinking," which regardless of the label-and there are bound to be many more labels on the horizon-is nothing but pure, unadulterated destruction of absolute values of right and wrong upon which stable and free societies depend and upon which our nation was founded."
Charlotte Iserbyte
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - E Book download 6.75 MB - http://bit.ly/zPUY4J
Didn't read this yet....but...her book plus Yuri Bezmeonov is probably all you need to know about the "how".
The "why" part gets complicated.
ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov’s (aka Schuman) discourse on ideological subversion 7 parts total
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0By0xbst8&list=FLnG3QAO4mwWQXiOVoN8A6vA&index=1&feature=plpp_video
must watch for anyone interested in real goals and methods of espionage and subversion.
No.
Just propagandists talks.
First obvious facts: it takes no critical thinking to see US citizens as they are.
Usually, US citizens of A consider negroes as the dumbest ever. Negroes see US citizens as they are, which means by US standards that no or little critical thinking is required to do so.
Side note: When you are no longer able to bamboozle the dumbest ever and keep to the same mantra, it also tells about your own intellect.
Here's the bit of propaganda
delusion: if US citizens knew the facts, they would change their mind and act accordingly with respect to truth, justice and freedom because US citizens are good people. So it is vital to give them information, teach them how the true from the fake etc...
reality: US citizens are duplicitous. They are perfectly aware of what is going on. They support what is going because they benefit from it.
This has been the case since 1776, July, 4th.
Dont worry, US citizens knew perfectly that they were keeping human beings as slaves. When they stole land from the indians, they knew perfectly they were mocking property rights.
It is the same today. US citizens nature is eternal.
The point is that in US citizenism, denial of facts is rewarded, denial of facts is monetized.
That is why debate is killed by US citizens. Debate as a means of investigating truth requires to accept facts.
But US citizens always weight whether it is more profitable to deny or admit facts. If it is more profitable, they will deny.
It is no critical thinking here, it is no education.
It is US citizenism. If it is profitable to deny facts, well, US citizens deny. And will keep denying until it is no longer profitable.
You can apply this to all fields touched by US citizens. It never misses.
Because US citizens nature is eternal.
I do agree with this:
"Dont worry, US citizens knew perfectly that they were keeping human beings as slaves. When they stole land from the indians, they knew perfectly they were mocking property rights."
George Washington sent Sullivan into New York State to "kill em all":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition
"Washington's orders to Sullivan made it clear that he wanted the Iroquois threat completely eliminated:
1. Of course early Americans KNEw they were keeping human beings as slavves, Dear God, how could they NOT have?
2. The Sullivan expedition was in reprisal for raids conducted by Loyalists and the Iroquois in response to the British defeat at Saratoga. In those raids the the Lyalists and Indians murdered, raped, pillaged and scalped many innocent civilians. So yes, the Sullivan campaign was harsh as reprisals are SUPPOSED to be. Your reflexive assumption that this was somehow about Indian property rights is ludicrous. It had nothing to do with property rights, duh.
3. There are many Amerindian tribes STILL LIVING IN STATES east of the Mississippi on reservations and more outside of reservations BECAUSE they have lived in peace. Unlike the Jews in Eastern Europe or the Armenians in Turkey, all a minority has to do to live in peace among US citizens is TO BE PEACEFUL THEMSELVES.
It is ironic how you go on and on about propaganda and shwo you have swallowed some of the biggest myths of modern leftwing ideology yourself.
Ah, poor cheif Wallywump has a tear in his eye! AAAAAHHHHHH ! ! ! ! !
lol
"2. The Sullivan expedition was in reprisal for raids conducted by Loyalists and the Iroquois in response to the British defeat at Saratoga. In those raids the the Lyalists and Indians murdered, raped, pillaged and scalped many innocent civilians. So yes, the Sullivan campaign was harsh as reprisals are SUPPOSED to be. Your reflexive assumption that this was somehow about Indian property rights is ludicrous. It had nothing to do with property rights, duh."
Has nothing to do with leftwing ideology...
Why didn't Geo Washington have the Six Nations on his side?
They *were* violent peoples...would you not want them to side with you *against* the British?
The fact remains that NY was their land. To do as they pleased with and within it.
Who the hell was this destructive cherry tree chopping dumbass anyway?
(I mean...who chops down perfectly good fruit bearing trees. Sounds like this guy would shit on his own dinner table.)
Why did he think he could start setting up forts and settlements in THEIR LAND?
These "founding fathers" thought long and hard about what they wanted long before this.
Read his order. Does he sound like a reasonable man...presuming individual natives were innocent rather than all guilty?
He wanted blanket extermination. Literally...go to NY and *destroy* the countryside.
He couldn't go hunt down the small groups responsible...or turn the situation somehow?
Just a sick madman.
Not brilliant at all. I bet the British were much more sane towards the Iroquois.
Maybe it was an expedient ploy on their part as they would have turned against them too.
After all, you could not have free people running around on their own land...not paying taxes etc.
I don't give a crap if they were "savages". They were on the side of right just by virtue of where they were.
They were not some ultimate killing force that needed extermination.
After all, the British were able to talk sense into them...and work with them.
That shows the truth of the situation.
Georgie Washington had an ulterior motive.
The US could still get it's act together. Remaining strong and more importantly, above reproach.
Purely and powerfully defensive. It's not some either/or pacifist or ruthless warring killer choice.
But we might not be able to make that smart decision.
Not enough intelligence or humility around these parts.
Once you can destroy a native people on your own soil....you can destroy anyone anywhere.
It's a slippery power mad slope. And it became an enshrined practice obviously.
...No.
Just propagandists talks.
First obvious facts: it takes no critical thinking to see US citizens as they are.
Usually, US citizens of A consider negroes as the dumbest ever. Negroes see US citizens as they are, which means by US standards that no or little critical thinking is required to do so...
How much do you get paid to type this tripe? Because however much it is, it's too much.
Your comments are a perfect example of the serious lack of critical thinking skills in this country. I can't make heads or tails of the non-sense you just spewed all over my computer screen.
Bottom line. Americans with Critical Thinking Skills (irregardless of color, you ass-clown) are the most dangerous and domineering species on the planet, of course they need to be suppressed.
Bottom line. Americans with Critical Thinking Skills (irregardless of color, you ass-clown) are the most dangerous and domineering species on the planet, of course they need to be suppressed.
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If my comments are the perfect example of the serious lack of critical thinking skills, while your support this assumption only by your pretended failure to understand what I wrote, I'll show thanks to your comments once again that US citizen made propaganda is growing cheaper and cheaper by the day, a fact I 've been hammering for nearly two years now on this site.
So here, demonstration of the cheapness of US citizen made propaganda:
If 'Americans' with Critical Thinking Skills (regardless of their colour, you ass clown) are the most dangerous and domineering species on the planet, by whom and how are they suppressed?
US citizenism, I keep telling it, US citizenism.
US citizens are so trapped in their cheap propaganda, this is what you've got.
Of course, all evidenced as signs of progress of humanity.
Because US citizens in their books are the best things that have ever happened to humanity...
God, you make absolutely NO fucking sense whatsoever --- ever!
All you seem to know how to do is monotonously spread the unfocused and generalized hatred of ALL Americans, under the guise of some absurd, nonsensical, repetitious series of tirades about "US Citizenism", a phrase which itself is meaningless on the face of it.
You add completely and totally nothing to the conversation here, you hate-filled and blindly anti-American turd, and I wish you would just fucking shut the Hell up already. Your stale, stereotypical, collectivist rants are tedious and vacuous in the extreme, and are nothing but a waste of time and space.
Why don't you tell us which nation YOU are a citizen of, and maybe somebody here can run around spreading equally ridiculous rants on "Chinese citizenism" or "Russian citizenism" or "Andorran citizenism", or whatever the Hell nation is unlucky enough to host your existence.
That bilge you posted is utter bullshyte and you are an ass hat.
Check it out everyone: this guy tries to prove how bad Americans are for stereotyping and discriminating against other people how? BY STEREOTYPING US and advocting DISCRIMNATION AGAINST US.
How frigging stupid can you be to buy that crap? Two functioning brain cells? Less?
Hate to say this but when 90% of American "negroes" support barack obama based on the color of his skin I'm thinking that your argument loses some cred?
Hate to say this but 90% of the American "negroes" have been voting democrat in the presidential election for almost 100yrs regardless of race, gender or anything else for that matter. Alan Keyes has run for president before, an American "negroe" and how much support did he garner from the American "negroes" the answer is about none.
Not true.
Prior to MLK's civil rights campaign, US blacks typically voted GOP as a legacy of Union support for them during the Reconstruction Era in the South. IIRC, King himself was a registered member of the GOP and a far higher percentage of US GOP congress-critters voted in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Act than did among the Democrats, many of whom tried to fillibuster the bill.
Not true from 1932 until MLK the number is in the 70's% and after that it is in the low 90's.
They haven't typically voted republican in closing in on 100yrs.
Hate to say this but when 90% of American "negroes" support barack obama based on the color of his skin I'm thinking that your argument loses some cred?
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Sure, sure.
First of all, a few corrections.
First, US of A is a racist country. It is common for US citizens to vote according to skin colour.
Negroes joining the ranks simply show they are assimilated as US citizens.
But of course, as usual in US citizenism, doing stuff only becomes bad when the others do.
Voting for a white person because he is white is nothing bad when done by White us citizens but it is a source of troubles when done by negroes.
That is the way it is in US citizenism.
Now, the figure of 90pc. Good one. Where does it come from but from the racist mind of US citizens (redundancy since US citizens are by design racits)
Quite a number of negroes in the US have lost their civil rights through felony so well,90pc of them is quite a pc to reach for voting power.
Another point is that negroes in the US are material for US citizens democrats and have traditionally showed a large support to democrats.
Would be bad to stop at this point, because when you look at the traditional support given by negroes to the democrats in the US and compare to the support given to the US citizen negro named Obama, two things:
-the negro named Obama if he gained support did not gain that much support due to his skin colour compared to a white US citizen democrat
-negroes through the election are also shown as having less qualms to vote for a white US citizen candidate than white US citizens have when it comes to vote for a negro, this proportionnally.
Sure, sure, my plain statement of obvious facts have been demolished by your US citizen made cheap propaganda.
As usual.
Hey, by the way, thanks for illustrating by the example the tendency of US citizens to deny any facts that would not be profitable to them.
Illustration by the example, nothing is better.
And now, I am not a conjuror, this US citizen is not my accomplice.
This US citizen is just that, a US citizen.
And US citizen nature is eternal and never misses.
How often do you leave your room?
Hey Valerie, better be careful. If they catch you posting to ZH Michelle is gunna blow a gasket all up in your ass.
Just sayin'.
Let's see here. The USA is approximately 70% European (call them white), 14% african american, 12% hispanic and the rest a mix of asians, native americans, ect. And this mix voted in an African american president. And all this proves what? Why of course, that american citizens vote in people based on their race. You are clueless.
Agreed with one exception: NONE OF US ARE EUROPEANS.
You could not make me live in Europe if you put a gun to my head. I'd say 'Pull the damned trigger.'
There are few if any 'white' people. If you look closely, or even casually, you'll note that almost all so-called white people are actually various shades of pink.
There - what does that do to your sense of racial superiority? Kinda hard to feel superior when you're pink, isn't it?
They voted for him because he wasn't (or so they thought) a continuation of GWB and the related Republican Party political agenda.
The Democratic Party could have nominated a hamster and the result would have been the same.
Your estimated racial breakdown of the 2008 voter base proves that if nothing else.
Lots of other options besides that. Remember they could have voted for Hillary Clinton if race is really such a big issue. Some might have, but the majority didn't. My issue with the above posting was the idea that americans vote based on race and always have and will. It's BS. Even 40 years ago a majority of white voters were voting in Ed Brooke as a US Senator (an african american) in a state with only 10% african americans.
Yes. We agree.
The ZH crowd which is largely white and male uses race and sex on a very visceral level to explain away very personal adverse conditions and place the blame for realities they can't affect directly.
Much easier to rant about the working class or poor black guy that they believe is endangering their safety or rail against "feminists" taking their jobs or lowering the pay for the one they still have than come to grips with the fact that for all their "guts", guns and gold, they are at the mercy of the oligarchs and predator class.
Keyboard commandos without an enemy they can fight.
I like the fact that you can think for yourself. Obviously the person who called you an ass-clown has a problem with critical thinking, therefore resorts to name-calling and ad-hominem attacks (must not have read the article at hand). But racism isn't unique to US citizenism. Is not racism the same around the world? We're all racists, by human design, let's just stop pretending. . Until you admit this, there can be no progress in human relations. Those who won't admit their racism are a bunch of haughty snooty superior types, wholly unable to detect their own shortcomings with critical thinking....
But racism isn't unique to US citizenism. Is not racism the same around the world? We're all racists, by human design, let's just stop pretending. . Until you admit this, there can be no progress in human relations. Those who won't admit their racism are a bunch of haughty snooty superior types, wholly unable to detect their own shortcomings with critical thinking....
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No.
Wrong.
Once again,the whole canard used by US citizens.
Racism is not the same as ethnocentrism.
Racism is not the same as xenophobia.
Racism is characteristical to US citizenism. It is not certainly shared by everyone. But spreads with US citizenism.
Were Indians racist before being subjected to US citizenism? They were not and had to adopt racism in order to please US citizens and survive.
Are Chinese today racist? Nope, they are not.
Japanese and Chinese are the same race. But it does not mean in any means that the Chinese feel a favoured connection with their japanese 'racial brothers'
As to personal attacks, it is all US citizens are left with when faced with facts of US citizenism on a place like the Internet.
Thank God your bullshyte is so predictable it is boring and trite and probably no one reads seriously it except the lost souls who have already bought into your hatred of America.
Hey Clint ! looks like you got bot: "citizenism"
Dude, this is nothing new. Jello Biafra (with NoMeansNo) was singing about this in 1991!
Our goal is perpetual... economic victory... we play with you to amuse ourselves!...
The laws we make for others don't apply to us... we do what we want...
Your lack of curiosity is the key to our success....
Little tangent:
"I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye."
"There's nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows"
Rob was just displaying their faulty internal dialogue. These creeps are actually powerless in the big picture.
Nothing they do has true permanence.
Look at this (Jesuit shill) CIA dude:
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/7_types_of_ambiguity/
His paranoia (from acting as a double agent for the Jesuits) completely destroyed him and literally erased his "essence".
He destroyed his own humanity and personality. Nothing he did had actual worth.
The people choosing to follow his example get the same fate as their reward.
Big lesson here if you are aware enough to understand it.
Worse yet, these institutions actually charge money for their 'service'...
I agree with your assessment of the basis for feminism. Double the labor force, slash wages (I've seen reporting of deliberate, funded government efforts in this direction decades ago in Indonesia for this stated reason, in order to overcome the strong predisposition of Indonsian women to stay home and care for children).
Feminists are stupid useful idiots, working towards their own enslavement. Masterful, though, when you think about it.
Women wanting to control their own lives in a capitalist society in which you *must have* money to buy your *own* food, clothing and housing, is a legit humanitarian objective. It takes true evil to use that objective to increase the labour force to therefore drive down wages. During WWII women were encouraged to enter the workforce and those evils were avoided. And could have been in the ensuing decades if the corporatocracy had wanted it so.
Yes. There was much more money to be made in off-shoring manufacturing jobs post WWII...and then you can blame women for the decline in wages.
Given that a lot of people fell for it (if ZH is any indicator) it was a brilliant plan.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Stole-Feminism-Women-Betrayed/dp/0684801566
...I agree with your assessment of the basis for feminism. Double the labor force, slash wages...
No, sorry. To see why this is false logic, consider why 'women' are any different in this context than anyone else. By your reasoning, if blue-eyed people decided not to work, wages will go up. Therefore, anyone who wants blue-eyed people to work must be wanting to slash wages.
You are falling for the 'lump of labour' fallacy - ie, there's only x amount of work to go round. Yes, the more people there are in the workforce, the more competition there is between them for work, which has a depressing effect on wages. But the more people there are working producing stuff, the more wealth is created, which depresses prices also - meaning that people can buy more with their income.
Furthermore, although wages might be lower, there are more people earning those lower wages, so, in aggregate, people are better off.
You could argue that women are better off at home looking after the kids from a familial or psychological viewpoint, but that's a different argument.
Excellent critical thinking on display here!
Double the supply of labor without doubling the demand and it WON'T reduce wages.
Higher demand for product results in lower prices.
Or the earth is flat and the sky is green just look a little closer.
Lack of critical thinking skills go hand in hand with a complete and total inability to create one's own work. In simple english, so many would starve (like the meat of the distribution of social scientists) if they actually had to live off the same deluded logic that they tie their fanatical wagon to.
Feminists are stupid useful idiots, working towards their own enslavement. Masterful, though, when you think about it.
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No. Made me laugh. Typical US citizenism.
Feminists are simply US citizens who happen to be women.
When this simple observation is made, the rest is easy.
US citizens want to see groups as undivided entities.
US citizens speak of the behalf of Humanity. US citizens act to better the destiny of man, to advance mankind.
Feminists are simply US citizens using US citizenism tricks.
They perfectly know that in a US citizen society, when pushing other under the train, you can better your own life.
So what about a visit of a condo of wellknow NYC feminists?
Hubbie is a US citizen, does not want to keep the household. He is a free man.
The missus is also a US citizen, does not want to keep the household. She is a free woman.
US citizen solution: cant solve the issue internally. Lets expand. Lets import one third world woman so she can keep the household.
US citizens, enslaving humanity so they can be free, since 1776, July, 4th.
That is the way it is.
It's not enslavement, it's employment, stupid.
Which means you have never been in one of those US citizen feminists condos.
>>>Feminists are stupid useful idiots, working towards their own enslavement.<<<
Hmmm...
They could be their own master/slave or be wholly dependent on some useful idiot man who is also master/slave...and often coersive or abusive.
The lesser of two evils is pretty clear to me.
I think you're just angry that women have a choice.
Too bad for you.
Greed is good, and Shit Romney, a crucifier of jobs will be elected president under the promise of creating jobs.
Republican wow.
Ron paul looks better and better, even though most think he is bat shit crazy.
People would rather have the soulless destroyer to throw their children at to die for the rich mans purse.
Fuck your children, elect Shit.
The reasons "most people" think Ron Paul is "bat shit crazy" are the very reasons cited in Kim's article! There is no left and right anymore. There is only populist v.s. corporatist. If Paul's not assassinated, he is the U.S.'s last, best hope.
I'm sorry, Ilike RP's platform, be it is all hopium. The potus position has been a long standing puppet performance. Ain't gonna happen.
The song 'anticipation", in the ketchup commercial, but thinking you will get ketchup instead of a stinky hershey squirt is going to be the worse episode of fanasy island.
Oh yeah!....I think I saw that one.
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At least the guy looked like Mr. Roarke.
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But...there was no.....island.
Errrr....nevermind...carry on.
Crazy Eddie.