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Is The Pussification Of America’s Youth Scientifically Engineered?

Truckedup said:
Not true but a good example of looking back with no actual experience in what it was like...I was born in 1947, a true baby boomer. I was taught in school the USA won WW2 and made great sacrifices. We all knew families that lost people in WW2 or Korea.. We had the constant threat of nuclear war with the Soviets. We had no constant news ,internet or cell phones. Friends got polio and wound up in an iron lung. You got cancer, you died, you got a bad infection, you died. But a simple life was fun at the time .
. Working class graduated HS and got drafted like me or joined the military because of the Vietnam mess...
The peace movement was primarily college students and just like today, exaggerated by the news. It was a time of social change with woman's rights and a distrust of the govt...
Drugs?? You never drank alcohol or smoked some reefer?
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I have a bit of experience of what it was like. Born in '61, so on the tail end of the boomers. I remember the air raid sirens getting tested once a week and practiced hiding under our desks at school. The death toll from Vietnam on the news every night at dinner. Standing outside with my dad, looking at the moon and him telling me there were Americans walking around on it.

I've done my share of drugs and pot, but grew out of it like most intelligent folks.

You're right, it was a time of social change, unfortunately a lot of those folks are running our educational system now. Just like with a lot of things, the message gets twisted over time. What was a peace and love movement has twisted into a foolish socialism for all movement. The folks who were fighting the "system", are the system now.
 
gt1guy said:
I have a bit of experience of what it was like. Born in '61, so on the tail end of the boomers. I remember the air raid sirens getting tested once a week and practiced hiding under our desks at school. The death toll from Vietnam on the news every night at dinner. Standing outside with my dad, looking at the moon and him telling me there were Americans walking around on it.

I've done my share of drugs and pot, but grew out of it like most intelligent folks.

You're right, it was a time of social change, unfortunately a lot of those folks are running our educational system now. Just like with a lot of things, the message gets twisted over time. What was a peace and love movement has twisted into a foolish socialism for all movement. The folks who were fighting the "system", are the system now.
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Quoted for absolute truth. I was there too, 7 years later than you. My kid is Gen Z and his friends (female and male) *KNOW* this is all bullshit. They see this and *know* these marches and protests are full of losers. They actually *laugh* at them and post videos amongst themselves to pick them apart.

And yeah, it was unreal how Vietnam was going on while rockets were landing people on the Moon.

Unreal.
 
gt1guy said:
I have a bit of experience of what it was like. Born in '61, so on the tail end of the boomers. I remember the air raid sirens getting tested once a week and practiced hiding under our desks at school. The death toll from Vietnam on the news every night at dinner. Standing outside with my dad, looking at the moon and him telling me there were Americans walking around on it.

I've done my share of drugs and pot, but grew out of it like most intelligent folks.

You're right, it was a time of social change, unfortunately a lot of those folks are running our educational system now. Just like with a lot of things, the message gets twisted over time. What was a peace and love movement has twisted into a foolish socialism for all movement. The folks who were fighting the "system", are the system now.
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Yes....the move towards socialism has been happening for for over 80 years...the idealogy recently gained momentum with Obama and Trump certainly has stirred up the socialist liberals..
 
Obama planted a lot of new seeds.....................and Soros watered them with cash.
 
The move towards socialism is going to happen on a national level...
 
Sterlingfire said:
where have you been? it already is on the national level.
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I'm talking about a lot more than now....much more European type regulation...Both liberals and conservatives want to put restrictions on us. Pick the poison you prefer...
 
This happens with each generation.
The dumb and lazy multiply faster (log)

Just look back on America:

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895
This is the eighth-grade final exam* from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken
from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society
and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10.Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?

Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10.Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10.Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
 
Truckedup said:
I'm talking about a lot more than now....much more European type regulation...Both liberals and conservatives want to put restrictions on us. Pick the poison you prefer...
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I'll absolutely agree that conservatives also want to push this shit on us,and it's damn disappointing.
this is exactly why each and every one of us need to get into local govs and start rolling back laws and regulations. This will get the ball rolling for future generations to do the same.
 
Sterlingfire said:
I'll absolutely agree that conservatives also want to push this shit on us,and it's damn disappointing.
this is exactly why each and every one of us need to get into local govs and start rolling back laws and regulations. This will get the ball rolling for future generations to do the same.
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Progressives are patient. They know that if they own the education system, it's only a generation away from citizen support for all of it's policies.

Conservatives are neither patient, nor as strategic in their efforts.

Kind of reminds me of the Apple vs. PC argument from the 90's. Apple knew winning the education system would eventually win the corporate user. MSFT believed winning the corporate user would influence the layperson...

Apple won that battle.
 
I agree with both replies above...Especially the involvement with local gov't that's often more responsive to the people.
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gt1guy said:
I have a bit of experience of what it was like. Born in '61, so on the tail end of the boomers. I remember the air raid sirens getting tested once a week and practiced hiding under our desks at school. The death toll from Vietnam on the news every night at dinner. Standing outside with my dad, looking at the moon and him telling me there were Americans walking around on it.

I've done my share of drugs and pot, but grew out of it like most intelligent folks.

You're right, it was a time of social change, unfortunately a lot of those folks are running our educational system now. Just like with a lot of things, the message gets twisted over time. What was a peace and love movement has twisted into a foolish socialism for all movement. The folks who were fighting the "system", are the system now.
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Wow , this is direct window into my childhood , how times have changed , and not for the better. :(
 
grumpy356 said:
You Want all our boys to be raised like the black culture raises boys.

Are you going to acknowledge kids coming out of the black culture even starting kindergarten are already behind.

Look at the prison population in the black culture. Look at theLook at the fatherless family. This is the culture that raises the boys to encourage the masculinity.

I’m not saying what you’re saying is wrong. But there sure is some balance that needs to be recognized and encouraged.

I am also not saying expectation of good behavior is pussification or feminization of America

What we’re seeing is the lack of balance in the world. That people move to the edges. The balance is what keeps everything stable. And human nature Has somehow lost any sense of balance.


I could also go off on a separate tangent about is school important? Because for school to work you can’t have one kid disrupting the entire class. So what are you do. Do you kick him out of class so he is deprived of the education? Do you move him to the office where he distracts all of the administration? What is your solution?

I do think 45ACP may have hit on something though, 6 hours of school is unproductive.

There is another book The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
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School was invented to make good workers. This is known.
 
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