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-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

 AT> Part of the problem has got to be the cold weather. Even me, I don't go
 AT> outside much during the winter. I get more TV than I get fresh air
 AT> (it's a bad habit.) Luckily I'm not consumed by the TV though (Joseph,
 AT> Bjorn. Alan.)

I think it's more incidious than that.

As a kid, my parents encouraged learning and even in winter, when I didn't want
to go out as often, I still explored mentally.

But what happens to a kid when their parents don't encourage learning?

What happens when teachers don't encourage learning and exploring and critical
thinking?

When I was in school, I usually got along pretty well with my teachers.  But
looking back, I can see that the ones that I didn't get along with were very
similar: Incompetent.  "Don't ask questions.  Just do what you're told."  And
today, those bad teachers are the norm, not the exception - by design.

We also have to factor in some stuff that Thomas Sowell wrote about.

Southern blacks, especially ones that escaped, went as far north as they could.
 The farther north they went, the less chance that they would be taken back to
the South.  Over time, they developed successful businesses and became
respected people in the community.

The old segregation thinking would take a while to go away, but it was fading
pretty fast.  Then the Left pushed the black trash up to the north into the
enclaves that the successful blacks had established. That move wrecked those
areas.  The successful blacks moved out.  And much of the respect that they had
earned was destroyed.  A criminal black and an honest black look the same.

Then you have the media popularizing the "gansta" culture and you start getting
Wiggers.

 AT> He encourages me to go to college, but he had no clue that they would
 AT> successfully brainwash me there. He thought they'd just teach me how to
 AT> be more financially successful. So there's that side of the story too;
 AT> some people are lucky enough to have it in them to break the chains.

College offered the opportunity to grow and be educated.  But you had to stand
your ground and question. College was 30 years ago for me, but even then, I had
to take control of my education and not let the Lefties push me into something
that was bad.  It's even worse now.

But the "you need to go to college to be successful" propaganda was pushed for
a long time.


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