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The Youth Are Our Future – The Challenges Of Raising Free-Thinking Minds
Submitted by The Dissident Dad via Mike Krieger's Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
When recent headlines range from a women going to jail for not mowing her lawn, to the tracking technology embedded in each of our cell phones, you can get easily depressed and discouraged simply by being aware of the world you live in.
I remember when I first announced that my wife and I were expecting a child. I received a multitude of angry feedback from my YouTube channel subscribers about how it is reckless to bring a child into this world. My response then, as it is now, is that we should never allow the oligarchs to dictate or alter our life choices. You choose your destiny; not JP Morgan, not the FED, and not the bloated bureaucrats in D.C.
Looking back 3 kids later, I am very happy my children are in this world with me.
I believe the solution to the corruption that surrounds us is to raise up a new generation of sovereign thinkers who aren’t tied down to any one philosophy, but are thinking minds instead.
As a father, I know that each of my interactions with my children will shape their future – especially on special days where we do things that aren’t part of our normal fun.
Last weekend, my children and I set up a coffee and lemonade stand. I took them to the store, bought the supplies, freshly squeezed the lemonade, and used a few extension cords to plug in the Keurig. Every time we do this, I just love their enthusiasm. From making top-quality lemonade to the stellar servicing of our customers, my children are learning to be honest business people. In fact, they are having so much fun we could easily give it away for free, since many of the tips for these 50 cent cups are north of $5.
After about an hour, my son was a bit discouraged. He waved and waved, but only 2 cars stopped. And just as he was about to give up, the flood gates opened up, making about $30 in 20 minutes.
All in all, it was a good day. The children learned about an honest day’s work, how to save money, and most importantly, they learned how to move forward after rejection. Although we only served about 8 customers, my children must have waved at over 100 vehicles that waved back but didn’t pull over.
Exercising their brains to take risks, to not fear rejection, and to treat others well is something that has been in many cases, entirely removed from our educational system.
Taking risks is frowned upon at school. You need to follow the rules, listen to your teacher, and learn that any break in the ranks will result in suspension. At the very heart of thinking for ourselves is one’s ability to take risks.
Rejection at school is unfortunately borne by anyone who isn’t part of the crowd. The crowd’s center being good looking kids, sports stars and the children of influential parents. The further you are away from this group the more you feel you are on the outside. So what do most kids do? They try and become part of the crowd; conditioning we all learn. Whether it be natural or manufactured, we carry it with us later in life as we head to the polls to cast our votes, or sign the loan documents for our new vehicle, 3-decade mortgage, or college tuition. The crowd in itself is not necessarily bad, but we need to help our children think for themselves, allowing them to be able to emotionally overcome rejection.
Parents today carry a heavy burden. We need to counter state propaganda, protect our children’s minds from corporatism, while at the same time, do everything we can to teach them to think for themselves.
I try to remember the road I just traveled, my awakening during the housing bubble, 9/11, and all the fraud and tyranny I’ve encountered since. I think back to all the time I wasted watching dishonest news, lining up to vote, and getting upset over the geopolitical concerns of our “overlords.”
If those of us who value liberty take an active role in our young people’s lives, there really shouldn’t be an awakening process for them – they’ll start their lives off awake. There will be no undoing for them and no recovery from propaganda; just a life here on earth as compassionate, energetic and moral sovereign men and women.
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Good an honest business is much more then you grant it. At first it meanst gettig in touch with customers and not pulling them over the table. It means I do something for you and you honor that with a fair payment. In the end all our lives are business, even with children. You don't know you balance sheet up to the end. But then it's better to leave not indebted.
Honest business does not excllude free-thinking. But free-thinking alone does not buy you anything for your living. It's always the question what can you do and what do you expect from others. And honest business does not exclude being smart or whatever you name good.
And to the stuff they should be whatever they want. So be it but, they should pay their own bills and not ask someone to to that for them Marx was sponsored and so he found enough time to spread his utterly destructive attitude.
What a business men learns is that through caring for customers you care for yourself the miracle of voluntarily exchange trade or if you like capitalism.
Getting that taught to your children is an worthwhile goal. Teaching ones children to abuse others is a shameful goal.
"Good an honest business is much more then you grant it. At first it meanst gettig in touch with customers and not pulling them over the table. It means I do something for you and you honor that with a fair payment."
Yes, yes. Read Max Weber, see that what you say was the general Puritan attitude to trade, and see where it has ended nowadays because of a lack of understanding of normal human greed. Business moralism is an exoskeleton, something exterior nothing forces you to obey. There is nothing easier to discard, since it runs counter to the maximization of profits.
"And to the stuff they should be whatever they want. So be it but, they should pay their own bills and not ask someone to to that for them Marx was sponsored and so he found enough time to spread his utterly destructive attitude."
Oh, so you've read Marx, have you? Obviously, you know what you're talking bout. There's a stunning ignorance of even the most basic political science thinkers, like Marx, in the "exceptional" country. No wonder, in a country where university students don't even know who the current Vice President is.
"What a business men learns is that through caring for customers you care for yourself the miracle of voluntarily exchange trade or if you like capitalism."
"Miracle"? Capitalism is a religion of sorts for you, isn't it? Talk bout "free thinking"...
"Teaching ones children to abuse others is a shameful goal."
Why, if it means more profits or gaining some personal advantage they wouldn't have otherwise? Go ahead and try to answer something more constructive than "because it's morally wrong".
Yes indeed I have read Marx Kapital. Don't you? Your attacks seems to show that you believe in that. Now that's a shame for you not me. Have your read Human Capital, the road to serfdom, man economy and state. And that you obviously does not honor private ownership is a another shame that falls back on you. So sorry, if I disturbed your crude view on thew world. Unfortunatly you and your kind do opress me, whereas I'm not for opressing anyone.
Very late wake up call!
In a world where the collective myth is decidedly softly peddled obscurantanism of Walt Disney "never never land" blend : Harry Pottter or Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings.
Where reality is despised by the MSM, all sold out to the Mad Men of MAdison Avenue, hell bent on selling instantaneous, ephemeral "American Idol" nonsense on all seven continents; all paid for by the kleptocracy Oligarchs of the Happy Few's plutocracy led transformation of the real world.
Whose most blatant examples are now the FIFA and Olympic Committees who have hi-jacked the best and physically talented of youth, converting them into Coliseum gladiators, performing seals for Corporate world, selling their world-wide games to the highest and most corrupt bidder--invariably part of the incestuous, kleptocratic Oligarchy global family and more and more obscurantist minded in their psychopathic rampage.
What an example of our corrupt politico-athletic mantra which is supposed to iconise our greatest aspirations for future youth; like the Hitler youth did at Nuremburg for Fascist Europe.
And, not only content to have destroyed the values bequeathed by Ancient Greece in the field of modern athletics, we now have the corresponding betrayal of the Enlightenment meme, when we flitter our knowledge tree's fruit in creating "planned obsolescence" hyperconsumerist Apple i-phone type products to bemuse our adolescence in click-o-nomics beatitude, all fabricated by outsourced, slave labour from China Inc.'s limitless supply of industrial serfs, all bought on basis of debt debauched petrodollar printing, all sold through the monopolisitc channels of Walmart, Amazon, Ali Baba, Apple store, to the greater glory of a global, mindless consumerista creed, now based on pollution of the world's ecosystem and accelerated depletion of Mother Nature's finite resources, as our common inheritence being blown away by an ill and foul smelling wind.
All it takes is the flutterings of the wings of a butterfly for the tsunami to engulf us.
Gone, truly gone with this ominous wind of Fukushima's glitterings?
A question to ask the next generation once the penny drops and Cinderella's shoe falls off!
Where in your world view does Kim Kardashian's ass fit in, fp? In contemporary philosophy one must include Kim Kardashian's ass
or the next generation will completely miss the point you are trying to make. Think 'attention deficit hyperactivity disorder' and you will realize
the window of opportunity that you have to work with when it comes to the 'next generation'.
The hardest thing for the nanny-state to realize (and deal with) is they are our kids, the families. They will recieve our morals, values & ethics, not a government workers morals, values & ethics.
On a long enough timeline its the only thing that stands in the way of conformity and total control.
And all sides know it ;-)
For the overwhelming majority of children that attend our public schools, they will be taught what to believe and think while getting a bit of the 3 r's on occasion. But the biggest lessons they will learn will be about interacting with and dealing with hundreds of immature brats for better or worse. IMHO, this is insane. The benefits are clearly outweighed by risks. If education was more of an actual goal, I'd change my opinion.
If you want truly free thinking children, have your wife stay at home and home school the children (says a stay at home mom who plans to home school). My siblings and I went to 20k a year Catholic schools and it was just as ratchet. I learned a lot about the Holocaust and some basic math. And not to chase alcohol with schnapps (which is also alcohol, go figure). The end.
Home schooling used to be religious nuts, both of the left and right variety, but now as more people are moving into the cities and cannot afford private schools and general dissilusion grows it has become an option for average people.
If you cut out public education and media you've got most of it covered.
I went to 20k a year Catholic schools and it was just as ratchet.
Apparently, spelling and proof-reading were far down on the list.
ratchet = ghetto
new slang
No, I'm just not understanding banter at all well today. Give it to us slower.
I believe that some education in classical Greek Cynics is all you need to get the ball rolling. Kids naturally ask questions when they are young and you need to build on that. Obama has been saying don't be cynical for a while now.
Is your $20,000/year private elementary school kid as smart as a poor Ethiopian villager child?...
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php
Besides good moral standards, the two most important lessons parents can teach their children are: 1.) Learn to read fast and with good comprehension and 2.) Learn to think independently and not be gullible to evil or stupid people (including many teachers).
1. Homeschool your kids if you are able or send them to a good private school. Get them out of the public school system where the brainwashing occurs.
2. No cable tv and no videogames and no smart devices until they can pay themselves. Why would you pay for garbage like that to poison their minds?
3. You gotta guide kids away from what's "normal".
4. Introduce books to them at an early age and read to them from birth. My 6 year old is already reading many grade levels ahead. He reads books on the shitter.
5. Don't put kids in daycare. Have one parent stay home with them in their early years at a minimum. Would you want someone getting paid minimum wage (who could give a fuck) taking care of your children?
Here is a reality, I was using a chlorinated kitchen cleaner and my 6 year old grand daughter said, "That smells like water."
Despite hauling and drinking spring water in our home, her experience identifies water with the chlorine smell.
It is a continual struggle against poor odds to make awake and aware critical thinkers of her and her brother, a challenge I accept.
The "three percent" had to be birthed and raised by someone. If three percent of Americans can form an insurgency that sent the Britsh Empire's military machine packing, then the three percent can also send the current globalist-occupied treasonous government straight to hell.
Oh, and fuck you NEA, Dept. of Education, CPS, and teachers unions.
I find it comical that so many people try to get away from the indoctrination of the state by sending kids to private religious schools...
From one indoctrination to another. Yeah, makes sense.
You're not TRULY letting your child grow up to be "freethinkers" unless you encourage them to make their own decision on spirituality also.
The key thing to teach your children is how to decipher right from wrong, good from bad, in diverse situations. That is critical thinking and morality is choosing and acting on the right and good. To do otherwise is to set them a sail in the dark and strormy seas of the world without a compass.
Good for you. Sadly, it seems you may be a minority that actually cares about their children. I certainly agree, I think schools have become progressive indoctrination mills. The actual content, such as ABC's and 123's, just gets worse and worse and worse. But, the social engineering seems to be center stage and that's very disturbing. Look to the condition of boys as a good way to gauge the real evil that is occuring in our "schools" today. Boys...ha, "they" don't give a shit about them and this is the same "they" that call for things like no honors nights because its not "fair" or "equal" enough. ??? So, an instituionalized neglect of 1/2 the population is fair and equal?
Dissident Daddy, Dissident Daddy, Dissident Daddy!
What's wrong, pukicans?
Well ... well ... aaaahhhh ...
Oh, you're hyperventilating again, pukicans. Let's calm down by repeating, "Gruber didn't help craft the ACA; Gruber didn't help craft the ACA; Gruber didn't help craft the ACA."
Gruber didn't help craft the ACA! Gruber didn't help craft the ACA! Gruber didn't help craft the ACA!
There. Better?
Yes, Dissident Daddy.
OK, what's wrong, pukicans?
I just heard, "Bush lied, THEN people died". Everybody knows it should be "Bush lied, people died" without the THEN. Oh, it's got me so upset! I was so used to thinking "Bush lied, people died" and loved that utterly nuanced, 9th-dimensional-fractally complex, and ravishing intellectually stimulating concise condensation of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR via "Bush lied, people died", and then they mess things up by adding a THEN. Why did they do that, Dissident Daddy?
Don't worry. Whoever did it will be shot, pukicans. After all, if they hear a different way of expressing EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR, people might start thinking, and we wouldn't want that, would we, pukicans?
No, Dissident Daddy. Thinking is bad! Thinking is evil! Thinking is inviting death via IRS hit squads using alien technology recovered from Roswell!
Good boy. And, what is our thought for today?
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Lot of good stuff on the thread about what to teach and what not to teach. I also appreciate the life experiences shared. Seems a lot of stuff about home school, anti-establishment, religion, the Bible, etc.
I for one think there is too much emphasis on education of information and not enough on character. People are going to gravitate to a general "belief" system based on their character. "Birds of a feather, flock together."
This brings us to the point of where or what is you basis for character? Lot of smack talk here about religion, and Christianity got the lion share of the discussion. Obviously a lot of God haters, Bible haters, and Christian haters on the board. That's fine. Its a free country. The fact is every society and culture on this planet has a belief system. Even you athiest out there "believe" in yourselves. Faith is an intregal part of what it is to be a human. It amazes me those with the non-religious, pius attitude that put all this faith in themselves. Then I should just pick any man, like say Obama, and put some faith in him? Maybe you have a better choice for me.....like, you for instance? Because the human race that preys on itself, kills and molest its own young, seeks to rule over millins of its own kind, and tries to force its ideology onto the open masses is where I should be willing to place my faith and hope in this life. I challenge anyone to find me a problem in the world today that is not tied to the lack of character in the hearts and minds of human.
Then we come to science. Surely I don't have to run down all the wack jobs of the past that called themselves scientist or the wack jobs of our day that call themselves scientist and push a lie of global warming or this fantasy of an economy we are witnessing. I have nothing against science. I love it! I just don't worship it as something it is not nor can ever fulfill.
I find that all the problems of the world are not scientific problems but rather character problems. Science isn't going to fix hate, lust, murder, stealing, rape, incest, adultery, etc. Obviously science isn't goint to fix world hunger. I am not a scientist by profession but realize that there is more than enough food in the world to satisfy the population needs. So the problem is not a shortage of food but a problem that involves hate, greed, lust for power, and basic general human wickedness.
Moar money, more eductation (of basic facts and knowledge), more science,........none of these change character. They only reveal character. Educate a murderer and you get a serial killer. Educate a theif and you get a criminal master mind. Give some "silver-spoon" with no character daddy's inheritance of millions and get a self centered, self indulgent punk who thinks the world and everything in it is for him........and because of him.
Which brings me back to the character issue and the character I wish to help build and develop in my children. Where do I get the knowledge of character, from within? People, people, I am rotten to the core....just like the rest of you if you were willing to admit it. At some point and on some level we are willing to justify doing wrong or evil based on what we want. Humanity is not a good guide of character. Just look at the people running this place that we all bitch about on a regular basis. Unlike the animal world, humans seek to rise above our base lust and desires (well some of us do anyway). We seek a moral code of character that holds us to a standard higher that we ourselves are.
I challenge anyone to find a higher "code" of conduct than the Bible. The reason most hate it is because they quickly realize that it calls them to a life that is impossible to live. A code that ask them to treat other humans as they would like to be treated. To love others as they love themselves. I am sure there are plenty who would like to pull out passages and point to supposed contradictions of this code of conduct. I will save that for a later date and discussion. Most of you that blast Christianity don't know anything about real Christianity. You judge Christ by the people that claim to follow him. When you try and judge Christ, you end up just denying His existence because you, like Pilate, can find no fault in Him. I love you "critical thinkers" that chose to deny what you can't explain, doesn't fit your mold, or verify your life's philosophy.
As stated before, I am no scientist by profession but I can observe. I can observe what this country was like at its founding and early years. I can observe what we were like in our families, communities, schools, government, etc. when the Bible was held in a higher regard. Its principles were taught as important. It was obvious to thinking people that the truths of the Bible were self evident and were held in great value. Don't try to defend your position by pointing out the rot and wickedness that has ALWAYS been there. I am talking about the level and intensity. The violence, filth, perverseness, greed, murder, lying, and lust of our day is second to none in the history of this country. As we have moved away from the promoting and teaching of Biblical principles, we have decended into an abyss of selfishness, moral filth, and wickedness. Deny God, Christ, deny whatever you wish, but do not deny the moral code, fiber, and benefit of the character that is taught by Biblical principle. If you have a better source, I would like to know it so I can begin to use that.
I again pose the question of what you would rather have; a society of brilliant scientist who know everything about how the universe works, or a society who "loves their neighbor as themselves"? I am unashamedly going with the latter. Let me pose the question this way, which society do you think would solve most of the problems we have today?
ISIS is currently clearing the path of disbelievers for Gods return.
Christians have done the same in the past.