The whole conspiracy theory, it goes deep. If you think about it, from the government, to the media, to capitalism, it works together to control us; to turn us into the consumerist zombies that we are (without us ever even realizing it). Before you right me off, think about it. How much influence external sources have on your life, consciously and subconsciously. More on that another time, but it really is ridiculous.
So here's the deal: School, it fails us. In the attempt to 'empower' us and to 'give us a better future' the school system takes away our power and deprives us of our present and our future.
If you translate the word "Kindergarten" from it's original German, it literally means "to break the spirits of" and that is exactly what they do. Public schools in conjunction with society use us all like play-dough, creating perfect little molds of who they think we should be. They teach what is and is not "appropriate"; they teach us to color inside the lines, follow a proper code of conduct, and tell us how we can and cannot behave. Now I'm not a hippie; I'm not saying there should be no discipline and no order, I'm just thinking, what are they doing to us? Just think about all the influences in your life. When was the last time you ever thought for yourself? Without influence, from parents, peers, media, education, or some sort of factoid stored in your brain? And when was the first time you let those influences start thinking for you?
Once they broken us, molded us, the education system does something worse: they deprive us of our youth. In today's society, you are preparing for college since preschool, whether you know it or not. We are piled with homework on top of the six mandatory hours most of us spend in school. When exactly are kids allowed to just be kids? When can we run around and breathe fresh air and think about something else besides school like, oh, I don't know, who we want to be as a person, or our families, or the many problems that arrive in day to day life? What about those problems? No one with a real life can honestly survive school. In eighth grade when my mom was dying and my dad was gone did they honestly expect me to just say "Oh, sorry mom, I'm sorry you have organ failure and we only have a few months left together, but I have Algebra to do?"...because if that is what they seriously expect of us then they are sadly mistaken. (Keep in mind, I am one of the lucky ones who has a cushy life and who's parent recovered; what does the school system say to those who have actually lost a parent?)
Has anyone ever considered that they our wasting the best years of our lives behind a desk in some classroom, teaching us what they 'think' we 'need to know'? I think it's about time someone inform 'THEM' that what you need to know about life you cannot learn in a classroom. You learn it outside, in the world, living life.
But if we follow the 'plan' we will never get to live our lives. We go to school all of our youth, then we are expected to go to college, after which we are expected to opt for more school or begin our career, we then will spend 30-40 years of our life in a job (that quite honestly most of us won't like), following which (if we live that long) we can retire and be further screwed over by the American system which leaves us barely anything to live off of. Honestly, what gives? When am I supposed to live my life? When do I get to follow my heart and follow my dreams? You get one chance to live this life, and the 'SYSTEM' wants us to waste it?! Call me crazy if you want to, but I consider that to be major oppression; land of the free my ass.
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