Thank you. Little discussed but very relevant and complicated topic so well worded. Appreciated!
Interesting co-incidence; as I was still waking up this morning I just remembered an old article (out of the blue) I read years ago while I was still studying. It was written by retired professor. The article was about how many of the academics, who go via the doctoral thesis way, start deteriorate with respect of their general knowledge and understanding of the world simultaneously as they start accumulate the special detailed knowledge on their specialization..
I 100% agree with that and also believe it applies to medicine and medical specialization. The best doctors I know are all generalists not specialists.
Wonderful article, as usual. I come from a family of highly educated people (I am the least educated of the lot). I am the only one who refused the vaccine, masks (when possible), and more. I was scolded and told: "You must agree with RFK, Jr", which is true. I did not know it at the time; subsequently, I read some of his books as well as CHD information. You and many others on substack have helped so many of us who have chosen to remain individuals rather than pack animals.
I appreciate all your research and time. I look forward to the next fantastic article.
In the case of my 5 sisters, I attribute it to pure, genetic, orneriness! Just kidding. I think they were much too smart to waste their time in skool. Every one of them is amazingly creative and hard working.
I am the middle brat of 7, the only one never to go to college. Also the only one to refuse the shots (although some of my siblings only took it to keep their jobs). Despite my lack of 'education' I homeschooled my own two. I received quite the education!
Ha! Not necessarily! I’m oldest of 7, highest educated in health (post masters). I went back to school in my 50s. Used to sit in class, thinking “what? why?”. Learned early on “left thinking” is celebrated, right thinking is frowned upon! Tried to school my lesser educated sibs on not taking the vax, half listened, half did not! And like school, we have a fracture line in our family since the pandemic! Greatly saddened! Lots of illnesses too lately!
Many incredibly good articles like this one however it is extremely strange and VERY SILLY sometimes how many are paywalled especially with the protocols, and even the comments get paywalled VERY STRANGE TO SEE WITH THAT GOING ON so much so be careful and BE WELL
About 30 years ago, after two decades of both formal and informal acquisition of knowledge on health and nutrition, it frequently confounded me that people who had acquired much more in the way of credentials would say things publicly that I knew to be false. At first, I incorrectly assumed that they "must know" something that I had missed. It took a while to recognize that people with lots of credentials would actually be for sale to Big pHarma, Big Food and other corporate interest for a quick buck. And some "true believers" would just never question what they were conditioned to memorize in medical school.
Tangentially related to this, around the time Trump first started running for president is when I first noticed the media saying things I knew to be false. This was my mid-thirties for me. I don't know if this was just me growing up or something changed in reporting.
Reporting doesn't explain it all because I began to notice a lack of intelligence when interacting with landlords, friends, auto mechanics everybody. I went through a great awakening simultaneous to the Trump era where I all at once began to see how stupid most people are.
Whereas before it's not that I thought I wasn't smart, but I somehow thought people knew things I didn't, had more expertise, or had more emotional intelligence, more rationality, and more integrity, than they actually do. I had a native respect or assumptions about "adults" and those in power and their own comeptency until i hit my own mid life crisis and became a full fldged adult and realized no one knows what they hell they are doing and they behave like little children triggered constantly into saying illogical emotional things.
Really, I think what it is, and what was confirmed during the insane covid response was that we saw the carrot & stick approach by the licensing and medical bureaucracies. The carrot is the reward for keeping in line with the established protocols, and the stick is that they go after doctors who truly want to treat their patients and realize that what they were taught was wrong. So it's easier to just go along with it and not make waves. It was always there - look at what happened to Dr. Shawn Baker after he started teaching people about the benefits of avoiding carbs and eating mostly meat. His detractors will still tell you that he lost his medical license, but they conveniently forget that he successfully fought them and got it back. Not many doctors have the fortitude to resist the rewards and take the more difficult ethical path. We saw more of this resistance during Covid because many more people were dying unnecessarily from lack of proper treatment during the first year, and as a direct result of the toxic jabs thereafter, and the extreme damage became obvious too quickly to be ignored.
My education coupled with decades of working in a school district brought me to realize that the prime directive of public school systems is to de-motivate clever people - and they are good at it.
If you were trying to stay in charge of an empire, reducing the pool of potential challengers, would be a normal response to build and maintain a dynasty. Until recently, my thinking had not incorporated possible impacts from children's health care.
A vaccine campaign to hamstring the intellect of the members of society would fit right in to a de-education program that discourages critical thinking. If this had taken place, it would be an immoral assault on the entire society that would rival the great atrocities in human history.
Also the use of drugs- even the drug of pornography- video games and the rise of paganism and satanism are major contributors to this detachment from logic and reality.
When you consider the potency of books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, and the repeating cycles of history, it seems like a trait and tactic that often accompanies the decline of empire: a purposeful dumbing down of the masses and restricting access to accumulated wisdom in order to consolidate power. An extreme variant of censorship...
I noticed when I began teaching in 1988 that creativity and thinking differently was not welcome in the classrooms and certainly not in the schools I worked in. I did what I could to encourage the students to think "outside the box" and was chastised many times over the years. It is what has kept me from full time employment. I was often told "you do not fit" and they were correct. I did not subscribe to their indoctrination and that was a big problem. However, many of the classroom teachers appreciated my efforts, so I was always busy while working as a substitute teacher. I love helping students learn, but detest being in most classrooms.
My general understanding is that the eugenics movement hit the US around 1880 and the following decades saw: Vaccinations, raw milk prohibitions, forced sterilizations among many other things which have directly led to the fertility decline we see now.
Why Don’t They Discourage Bad Dietary Choices and Stop Vaccinating?
Consider the impacts on the economy of not reducing the life spans of humans.
Let’s say 30% of the population of a country lived beyond 90 years. Pension plans would implode as there would not be enough money to cover redemptions. For those on public pensions, we could raise taxes to ensure pensioners get paid, but that would mean less money for schools, roads and other infrastructure. Government services would need to be dramatically scaled back resulting in huge job losses.
All of these elderly people would essentially be ‘useless eaters’ sapping the economic strength of the country to provide them with medical care and free bus passes, while they produce and contribute nothing.
Why did they ramp up the vaccine schedule in the 80’s? I would suggest that they did this because population (which grows exponentially) was about to get out of control so they needed to take action. What would our overall population be if not for the vaccine push and the dramatic increase in the availability of processed foods in recent decades?
You are Expendable
At the end of the day all they care about is having enough circus and barnyard animals to operate the farm. They could care less about you or your health - you are EXPENDABLE.
And the creation of “public school” in the late 1800’s. Before then everyone was “homeschooled” and participated in “self-directed education”. John Taylor Gatto gets into the history of this in his book The Underground History of American Education. It’s very detailed.
The late Dr. Rashid Butar explained it as the difference between stupid and ignorant. Stupid people cannot ever see the picture beyond their own reality no matter what proof or facts you give them. Once you realize you are dealing with a stupid person walk away because you are wasting your time. An ignorant person is one that just has never been told or shown the facts/truth but when educated has the ability to see the truth and be enlightened. They are open to ideas and can be helped to see the truth in any issue. These are the people we need to spend our time to help them see what is going on around them and the world. RIP Dr. Butar
Notice the first word in this article is "Balanced,"
Your comment could be in the style of smart vs dumb. We have seen many "smart" people, for example MD, scientist, air line pilot, politician, etc., rejecting facts and arguments on, say, dangers of mRNA, during the "pandemic." They are not dumb. Something else going on.
One way to characterize this is fundamentalism. The closing off of consideration of challenges to ones' position. Protecting and managing boundaries of the self or the group. Strong but flexible boundaries.
Fundamentalism can often be seen in religious adherence but it is also seen in ideological positions that are strongly held as a persons or a group's identity. This is not an attack on religion which is a essential mode of existence to forming collectives, but making the point that Balance is essential.
.......and in the workshops for young naive teachers during the seventies and early eighties , they were taught to be pseudo psychologists assessing abuse and the worries parents caused their children.
I recall one poster in a fifth grade class that read," YOU CANNOT TALK TO YOUR PARENTS . TALK TO YOUR TEACHER !"
I was sure the first word in the sentence had fallen off the big bulletin board and I looked all over the floor but the word "IF" was not there.
Now the teachers are work shopped on Teacher Inservice days to facilitate gender concerns and change for each child that they must not reveal to the parents Lupron being the one dangerous drug being doled out by PP Clinics during school hours ,when children are brought to them by some school employees..
Phenomenal dissection of the blond compliance infecting our society now.
As a retired nurse who started the first homeschooling support group with two others in NJ after taking my youngest out of school, i can look back and honestly admit she grew up with the better thinking brain.
Despite being selected to tutor in Chemistry in college ( an actual Pharma saleswomen who just did not get it ) and being accepted into a MS Occ Therapy program, she decided to opt for managing jewelry stores and currently is an Operations Manager for a boutique on Palm Beach.
I see some others who followed the money as far as what the colleges recommended they pursue and honestly few are happy, or for that matter ,are making decent money.
My husband was an electronic hardware engineer and about fifteen years before retirement he saw his career choice outsourced to China.
I watched Healthcare change in the hospitals when finance experts were hired and nurses were surveyed
to learn how many minutes or hours they spent in rooms with patients diagnosed with the same disease or condition. Immediately I realized these idiots were lumping people under different umbrellas when in fact everyone had differing needs and comorbidities. They were human beings NOT numbers that fell into data driven categories. Hence , lots of medical errors being addressed in CEUs thanks to techs rather than trained nurses delivering the meds to patients.
.......The same with the plannedemic..........I knew something was wrong when Bill Gates was pushing the mRNA poisons . His father was the past President of the Rockefeller owned Planned Parenthood corporations. Population control was their thing and it has now morphed into stem cell sales to Big Pharma and Labs of internal organs of babies. The more developed , the more profitable.
Few realize that the abortion pills are the direct cause of most of the abortions and believe the lies that Trump and DeSantis are limiting access.
I don't think so. I was amazed to see very liberal people I knew who actively complained about childhood vaccines (e.g., because they treated many vaccine injured patients) nonetheless get the COVID vaccine (and in some cases did so even after family members were injured by it). That said, Natural Grocers is a great chain!
I’d like to add to the conversation on education by providing my article on the topic which is an excerpt from my book. When we understand the “origins of education,” we realize it was never for o it benefit: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/origins-of-modern-education
As a millennial, many of my peers are struggling because we enter adulthood and don’t know how to handle life. We don’t know how to think through our problems and solve them through. This is the though behind my publication and behind my article “how millennials were setup to fail” because once we recognize we were never given the tools to begin with, we can begin to “autodidact” ourselves and learn what’s truly needed to function in this world: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-millennials-were-setup-to-fail
Thanks for putting this article out there. Much appreciated
PS: as a PharmD I can relate to the lessons of school. for me it was depression and serotonin. How can we treat something with chemicals that we can’t measure its baseline. Fascinating world we live in.
It's very unfortunate for the millennial that the economic destitution of the society was timed to dovetail with the debasement of the educational system.
Absolutely! At a time, or the same time, when colleges (Including Harvard, Columbia, Yale) began pushing students left until there were too few to push, Then the poor high school students just entering these liberal bastians of higher learning didn;t need pushing. I was there. I was angry. Didn't use my degree.
Surely any discussion of so-called balanced intelligence should include an acknowledgment of moral intelligence, even though many might believe that such intelligence doesn't actually exist; and moral intelligence issues from a sense of healthy shame which Russian philosopher, Vladimir Solovyov called "the true spiritual root of all human good and the distinctive characteristic of man as a moral being." Shame leads to guilt and guilt safeguards human conscience, natural shame being the root of moral intelligence; historically and to this day we have been surrounded by countless examples of the absence of a sense of healthy shame and moral intelligence; those who fail to develop this affect system may become less than human and be dominated by forms of psychopathy (today's ruling elite) which seek power and control in continuing efforts to victimize and dehumanize the rest of us; humanity has been and will continue to be manipulated by those who have never developed or who have denied human conscience and its spiritual root in healthy shame and moral development; psychologist, Erik Erikson referred to humanity as "unfinished human beings" because so many cling to a "prolonged childhood" in an effort to avoid personal responsibility for the task and the work needed to become fully human; and that task entails taking responsibility for any and all forms of intelligence that may have been granted by our creator who gave us freedom and the ability to choose as part of our human nature.
So true, our whole parish (600 souls? ) and priestly Society have been fighting for the true Traditional Catholic faith for 40 plus years, and guess what, have been fighting the whole vaccine/covid farce , too! Is this a coincidence?
I think as we learn more about mirror neurons it will add to our understanding of dangerous group think. A family relative was told by a teacher he was not good at math over one poor exam result. He believed from that point forward he was not an intelligent person, despite his genius sense of humour. What a terrible pity, because it was the teacher that was in that moment acting stupidly. It is so interesting to read up on brain lateralization. It seems to me that it is healthy to strive toward balance. Many teens and college students have to work as well as attend classes and study, then there is the computer game addiction. I wonder what the outcome would be, if parents did a deal with their older kids. Instead of gaming and working, go outside, spend time in nature, engage in creative projects and hobbies that are relaxing, and keep up with schoolwork. A work ethic is vital, but so is balance. As Robert L. Stevenson wrote in 'An Apology for Idlers' It would be easy to leave them (children) in their native cloudland, where they figure so prettily—pretty like flowers and innocent like dogs. They will come out of their gardens soon enough and have to go into offices and the witness-box. Spare them yet a while, O conscientious parent! Let them doze among their playthings yet a little! for who knows what a rough, war faring existence lies before them in the future?
Yes!! Reminds me of Dr. Peter Gray’s work “Free to Learn( Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier More Self-Reliant and Better Students for Life)”!!!
Over the years, an art teacher told me my art was "pathetic." So I never tried that anymore.
Then my mother informed me that my music was not performance quality, so there was no point pursuing music school (NOBODY told me anything about music therapy or education!).
Then my father informed me that I was "bad at maths" (slightly lower SAT than language) so no point considering engineering or medicine....
I think those words are not 'little things' they create huge stumbling blocks in the psyche of young people. In the book The Four Agreements, the author says statements like that are curses. Steven Spielberg's mother told him he could do great things, and he did because the right belief seed was planted.
I'm curious if you think this covers people of all ages. I graduated from a crappy high school in 81, my husband in 79 (so we're in our early 60's). I didn't learn much of value in school. We went to engineering school, where I continued to a masters. My attitude always was to learn the material, not to pass a test, although I got all A's because you can't half understand something. We became engineers, then business owners. None of our parents were intellectuals or exposed us to the types of critical thinking and broad ideas that you're describing. (Their idea of a thought is to parrot Fox News opinion pieces.) So it certainly didn't come from our schools or our parents. But we had those qualities anyway. From the time I was little I was told by numerous people that they'd never seen anyone more analytical. Every other word out of my mouth was Why? Our whole lives we have been questioning why, learning things we never learned in school, understanding how things really are. In the past 10 years I've delved into the history of our country and seen with discouragement that it's nothing like I thought. Every decade we seem to have completely different views, as we learn and see more.
So do we learn these things or are we born with them? (Or do they result from what happens to us in other ways, such as experiencing trauma when young which destroys some people but seems to give other people superpowers.) Are there people who really do benefit from good teaching? Would I have if I ever encountered any good teachers? Would everyone, and if so how would we train enough people to be good teachers?
One pastor told me to stop asking why in Parochial school. He taught us religion class and during the changes in the Vatican Two reforms he was happy to inform us that seminarians would not longer be taught there is an entity called "Satan". Thirteen at the time, I raised my hand and asked how these future priests would then believe in God. Years later, my mother told me he called the house at night and demanded to know what I was reading.....she said "The Bible and the prayers in her Missal."
Jung claims that Satan is Jesus' twin (evil twin if you like). That until Jesus, there was no need for Satan. I'm very horribly paraphrasing, and I'm sure that Jews have some form of Shaitan...
I've wondered about the bulk of "uncurious people" around me. While I'm burning to learn more, have conversations about learning more - they're so happy to just stay in their lane, and are completely uncurious about anything that might deviate their course.
I am uncertain if it is possible to train people to be effective teachers. It is something that is developed through our experiences. I also have always asked why and was often told that I ask too many questions.
Depends on what we mean by "train". The etymology of it is to learn how to follow in the footsteps of the person ahead of one. To submit to Tradition. Hence you can't be a Knight until you have been a Pageboy.
Now that the late Enlightenment has detonated such submissions in the West, including between parents and their children, I guess being an autodidact is the only thing left. But it too is problematic. Promoting it will also increase long term divisions.
AMD sounds like an autodidact. Probably high in Openness and Conscientiousness and low in Agreeableness and Neuroticism. An autodidact gains by joining a lineage because it allows one to successfully "train" those that are of a different type/constitution to oneself.
Chinese Medicine still does things this way, away from the hospital system anyway.
Many "Intelligent" people grow used to the positive attention and awards and praise that come from succeeding within the narrow framework of A, B, C or D government-approved teaching and testing. I was one of those, but luckily I escaped. I was in consideration for a Rhodes Scholarship, never suspecting that it was the gold standard for trapping and turning bright minds to become part of the cabal.
If you get hooked on that kind of reinforcement, if you blindly follow the positive reward system in place, then you have to detox and reset, give up the drug of outside authority-based approval, and live according to a new, healthier paradigm, or you may be led by the nose (IQ-test based programming) for a good part or all of your adult life.
This is an insidious way to siphon off the most intelligent people and essentially use their gifts against them, the way a skilled martial arts fighter uses the weight of his opponent to throw/kick them to the mat. I view allopathic Medical School similarly, with the sleep deprivation and very narrow way of looking at health and healing. You have to break out of the drug-only paradigm and face the disapproval of your peers for using your own true, creative, right brain intelligence and embracing a broader paradigm such as AMD has done.
I just spent the last hour or so reading this article on DMSO as well as some of the links within the article. I have followed a holistic way of life for many years….an amazing doctor of Naturopathy my support over the years. However, I’ve never before heard of DMSO. Will bring this up for discussion next visit.
I live in Canada and would sincerely appreciate knowing where, how I might find DMSO. Much appreciated!
DMSO is widely available from Amazon and a variety of other on-line sources as well as from major pharmacies and health food stores; it's important to purchase pharmaceutical grade formulas and follow recommended guidelines as well as doing some independent reading and research.
Are you kidding!? I am presently using a formula from NAKA (Enhanced DSMO with Aloe Vera) purchased from my HealthWise Natural Health store; they have both liquid and gel formulas; you can also purchase directly from NAKA pharmaceuticals and countless other Natural remedy companies and even from pharmacies who may carry it(the Naka formula is Canadian made).
When interested people seek to buy some DMSO, remember that there are a number of grades of the material and the lower grades will produce a more pungent body smell and garlicky taste in the mouth. Amazon, I believe, has a grade which has the lowest level of contaminants and it minimizes the nettlesome smell/taste components while taking it.
Striving for comprehension and deep understanding is not the goal of education. Many teachers "teach to test." I abhore that practice. I know many are horrible at tests due to stress and the formating of the questions. This is done on purpose to cause additional stress and dissociation. It is difficult to bring a child out of that hole once they have been buried.
Thank you. Little discussed but very relevant and complicated topic so well worded. Appreciated!
Interesting co-incidence; as I was still waking up this morning I just remembered an old article (out of the blue) I read years ago while I was still studying. It was written by retired professor. The article was about how many of the academics, who go via the doctoral thesis way, start deteriorate with respect of their general knowledge and understanding of the world simultaneously as they start accumulate the special detailed knowledge on their specialization..
I 100% agree with that and also believe it applies to medicine and medical specialization. The best doctors I know are all generalists not specialists.
Wonderful article, as usual. I come from a family of highly educated people (I am the least educated of the lot). I am the only one who refused the vaccine, masks (when possible), and more. I was scolded and told: "You must agree with RFK, Jr", which is true. I did not know it at the time; subsequently, I read some of his books as well as CHD information. You and many others on substack have helped so many of us who have chosen to remain individuals rather than pack animals.
I appreciate all your research and time. I look forward to the next fantastic article.
"(I am the least educated of the lot). I am the only one who refused the vaccine"
Interesting. Out of a family of 8 sibs, none of us took any covid jab and only 2 of us went beyond high school.
Less indoctrination?
In the case of my 5 sisters, I attribute it to pure, genetic, orneriness! Just kidding. I think they were much too smart to waste their time in skool. Every one of them is amazingly creative and hard working.
I am the middle brat of 7, the only one never to go to college. Also the only one to refuse the shots (although some of my siblings only took it to keep their jobs). Despite my lack of 'education' I homeschooled my own two. I received quite the education!
Yeah, I always say that I learned more by dealing with my kids than they ever learned from me, and I consider that a good thing!
Ha! Not necessarily! I’m oldest of 7, highest educated in health (post masters). I went back to school in my 50s. Used to sit in class, thinking “what? why?”. Learned early on “left thinking” is celebrated, right thinking is frowned upon! Tried to school my lesser educated sibs on not taking the vax, half listened, half did not! And like school, we have a fracture line in our family since the pandemic! Greatly saddened! Lots of illnesses too lately!
Many incredibly good articles like this one however it is extremely strange and VERY SILLY sometimes how many are paywalled especially with the protocols, and even the comments get paywalled VERY STRANGE TO SEE WITH THAT GOING ON so much so be careful and BE WELL
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-isnt-there-a-cure-for-insomnia
If no paywall, how does a writer get compensated for his hard work?
About 30 years ago, after two decades of both formal and informal acquisition of knowledge on health and nutrition, it frequently confounded me that people who had acquired much more in the way of credentials would say things publicly that I knew to be false. At first, I incorrectly assumed that they "must know" something that I had missed. It took a while to recognize that people with lots of credentials would actually be for sale to Big pHarma, Big Food and other corporate interest for a quick buck. And some "true believers" would just never question what they were conditioned to memorize in medical school.
What you are describing is a cornerstone of modern public relations!
Tangentially related to this, around the time Trump first started running for president is when I first noticed the media saying things I knew to be false. This was my mid-thirties for me. I don't know if this was just me growing up or something changed in reporting.
Reporting doesn't explain it all because I began to notice a lack of intelligence when interacting with landlords, friends, auto mechanics everybody. I went through a great awakening simultaneous to the Trump era where I all at once began to see how stupid most people are.
Whereas before it's not that I thought I wasn't smart, but I somehow thought people knew things I didn't, had more expertise, or had more emotional intelligence, more rationality, and more integrity, than they actually do. I had a native respect or assumptions about "adults" and those in power and their own comeptency until i hit my own mid life crisis and became a full fldged adult and realized no one knows what they hell they are doing and they behave like little children triggered constantly into saying illogical emotional things.
Is it sleep deprivation, partying with marijuana, or just a predisposed mindset of those with a proclivity to go to medical school?
Really, I think what it is, and what was confirmed during the insane covid response was that we saw the carrot & stick approach by the licensing and medical bureaucracies. The carrot is the reward for keeping in line with the established protocols, and the stick is that they go after doctors who truly want to treat their patients and realize that what they were taught was wrong. So it's easier to just go along with it and not make waves. It was always there - look at what happened to Dr. Shawn Baker after he started teaching people about the benefits of avoiding carbs and eating mostly meat. His detractors will still tell you that he lost his medical license, but they conveniently forget that he successfully fought them and got it back. Not many doctors have the fortitude to resist the rewards and take the more difficult ethical path. We saw more of this resistance during Covid because many more people were dying unnecessarily from lack of proper treatment during the first year, and as a direct result of the toxic jabs thereafter, and the extreme damage became obvious too quickly to be ignored.
My education coupled with decades of working in a school district brought me to realize that the prime directive of public school systems is to de-motivate clever people - and they are good at it.
If you were trying to stay in charge of an empire, reducing the pool of potential challengers, would be a normal response to build and maintain a dynasty. Until recently, my thinking had not incorporated possible impacts from children's health care.
A vaccine campaign to hamstring the intellect of the members of society would fit right in to a de-education program that discourages critical thinking. If this had taken place, it would be an immoral assault on the entire society that would rival the great atrocities in human history.
Also the use of drugs- even the drug of pornography- video games and the rise of paganism and satanism are major contributors to this detachment from logic and reality.
When you consider the potency of books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, and the repeating cycles of history, it seems like a trait and tactic that often accompanies the decline of empire: a purposeful dumbing down of the masses and restricting access to accumulated wisdom in order to consolidate power. An extreme variant of censorship...
>When you consider the potency of books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451,
I had thought that was fiction, then again, for Orwell, not so much...
Now for us, it turns out we are living in one of his novels. Who knew?
He did.
You may be correct in implying aluminum (and other) adjuvants impair cognition.
I noticed when I began teaching in 1988 that creativity and thinking differently was not welcome in the classrooms and certainly not in the schools I worked in. I did what I could to encourage the students to think "outside the box" and was chastised many times over the years. It is what has kept me from full time employment. I was often told "you do not fit" and they were correct. I did not subscribe to their indoctrination and that was a big problem. However, many of the classroom teachers appreciated my efforts, so I was always busy while working as a substitute teacher. I love helping students learn, but detest being in most classrooms.
My general understanding is that the eugenics movement hit the US around 1880 and the following decades saw: Vaccinations, raw milk prohibitions, forced sterilizations among many other things which have directly led to the fertility decline we see now.
I need to check that timeline in more detail
Why Don’t They Discourage Bad Dietary Choices and Stop Vaccinating?
Consider the impacts on the economy of not reducing the life spans of humans.
Let’s say 30% of the population of a country lived beyond 90 years. Pension plans would implode as there would not be enough money to cover redemptions. For those on public pensions, we could raise taxes to ensure pensioners get paid, but that would mean less money for schools, roads and other infrastructure. Government services would need to be dramatically scaled back resulting in huge job losses.
All of these elderly people would essentially be ‘useless eaters’ sapping the economic strength of the country to provide them with medical care and free bus passes, while they produce and contribute nothing.
Why did they ramp up the vaccine schedule in the 80’s? I would suggest that they did this because population (which grows exponentially) was about to get out of control so they needed to take action. What would our overall population be if not for the vaccine push and the dramatic increase in the availability of processed foods in recent decades?
You are Expendable
At the end of the day all they care about is having enough circus and barnyard animals to operate the farm. They could care less about you or your health - you are EXPENDABLE.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/vaccines-are-population-control
And the creation of “public school” in the late 1800’s. Before then everyone was “homeschooled” and participated in “self-directed education”. John Taylor Gatto gets into the history of this in his book The Underground History of American Education. It’s very detailed.
The late Dr. Rashid Butar explained it as the difference between stupid and ignorant. Stupid people cannot ever see the picture beyond their own reality no matter what proof or facts you give them. Once you realize you are dealing with a stupid person walk away because you are wasting your time. An ignorant person is one that just has never been told or shown the facts/truth but when educated has the ability to see the truth and be enlightened. They are open to ideas and can be helped to see the truth in any issue. These are the people we need to spend our time to help them see what is going on around them and the world. RIP Dr. Butar
Notice the first word in this article is "Balanced,"
Your comment could be in the style of smart vs dumb. We have seen many "smart" people, for example MD, scientist, air line pilot, politician, etc., rejecting facts and arguments on, say, dangers of mRNA, during the "pandemic." They are not dumb. Something else going on.
One way to characterize this is fundamentalism. The closing off of consideration of challenges to ones' position. Protecting and managing boundaries of the self or the group. Strong but flexible boundaries.
Fundamentalism can often be seen in religious adherence but it is also seen in ideological positions that are strongly held as a persons or a group's identity. This is not an attack on religion which is a essential mode of existence to forming collectives, but making the point that Balance is essential.
I define stupid as choosing ignorance.
or barnyard ... circus animals...??? https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/humans-barnyard-animals-and-circus
You hit the nail on the head. People are trained for compliance, not critical thinking. Very sad indeed
RK, totally agree. You may appreciate the following piece.
Not only are we trained for compliance, we are extremely naive to other possibilities that our “authority leaders” have not told us:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-naivete-and-extended-adolescence
.......and in the workshops for young naive teachers during the seventies and early eighties , they were taught to be pseudo psychologists assessing abuse and the worries parents caused their children.
I recall one poster in a fifth grade class that read," YOU CANNOT TALK TO YOUR PARENTS . TALK TO YOUR TEACHER !"
I was sure the first word in the sentence had fallen off the big bulletin board and I looked all over the floor but the word "IF" was not there.
Now the teachers are work shopped on Teacher Inservice days to facilitate gender concerns and change for each child that they must not reveal to the parents Lupron being the one dangerous drug being doled out by PP Clinics during school hours ,when children are brought to them by some school employees..
Don't forget required "situational ethics".
Not just schools. Big Religion also does this.
Looks like the horse has left the barn.... with 70 percent of our population injected and most all of healthcare with 3 plus jabs.
How many will still be alive 5 years from their first injection?
Looks like to me that we will be starting over after the current "healthcare system" collapses.
'Safe and Effective': Japanese Researchers Link Covid Shots to 201 Dangerous Diseases
https://open.substack.com/pub/lionessofjudah/p/safe-and-effective-japanese-researchers?r=gjogf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Phenomenal dissection of the blond compliance infecting our society now.
As a retired nurse who started the first homeschooling support group with two others in NJ after taking my youngest out of school, i can look back and honestly admit she grew up with the better thinking brain.
Despite being selected to tutor in Chemistry in college ( an actual Pharma saleswomen who just did not get it ) and being accepted into a MS Occ Therapy program, she decided to opt for managing jewelry stores and currently is an Operations Manager for a boutique on Palm Beach.
I see some others who followed the money as far as what the colleges recommended they pursue and honestly few are happy, or for that matter ,are making decent money.
My husband was an electronic hardware engineer and about fifteen years before retirement he saw his career choice outsourced to China.
I watched Healthcare change in the hospitals when finance experts were hired and nurses were surveyed
to learn how many minutes or hours they spent in rooms with patients diagnosed with the same disease or condition. Immediately I realized these idiots were lumping people under different umbrellas when in fact everyone had differing needs and comorbidities. They were human beings NOT numbers that fell into data driven categories. Hence , lots of medical errors being addressed in CEUs thanks to techs rather than trained nurses delivering the meds to patients.
.......The same with the plannedemic..........I knew something was wrong when Bill Gates was pushing the mRNA poisons . His father was the past President of the Rockefeller owned Planned Parenthood corporations. Population control was their thing and it has now morphed into stem cell sales to Big Pharma and Labs of internal organs of babies. The more developed , the more profitable.
Few realize that the abortion pills are the direct cause of most of the abortions and believe the lies that Trump and DeSantis are limiting access.
I’m stunned by the way many alternative lifestyler, vegan, health conscious people I know became fervent vaccine devotees
Me too. The most amazing part was seeing it happens with liberals who had vaccine injured children they knew were injured by the vaccine.
Frankly, I believe a multitude of pharma drugs, including everything vaccine, just pulverize critical thinking skills.
I haven’t had any kind of “vaccine” since about 1966, and I can still think.
What happens with these illiberals? Seems most won't even admit the connection.
Has AMD or anyone else written a Substack article on this phenomenon? Natural Grocer has not apologized, and does not even admit they did this.
I don't think so. I was amazed to see very liberal people I knew who actively complained about childhood vaccines (e.g., because they treated many vaccine injured patients) nonetheless get the COVID vaccine (and in some cases did so even after family members were injured by it). That said, Natural Grocers is a great chain!
AMD, this quote resonated with me: “defenders of the orthodoxy.”
It is precisely for this reason that I created my publication called “Unorthodoxy”: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/
I’d like to add to the conversation on education by providing my article on the topic which is an excerpt from my book. When we understand the “origins of education,” we realize it was never for o it benefit: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/origins-of-modern-education
As a millennial, many of my peers are struggling because we enter adulthood and don’t know how to handle life. We don’t know how to think through our problems and solve them through. This is the though behind my publication and behind my article “how millennials were setup to fail” because once we recognize we were never given the tools to begin with, we can begin to “autodidact” ourselves and learn what’s truly needed to function in this world: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-millennials-were-setup-to-fail
Thanks for putting this article out there. Much appreciated
PS: as a PharmD I can relate to the lessons of school. for me it was depression and serotonin. How can we treat something with chemicals that we can’t measure its baseline. Fascinating world we live in.
It's very unfortunate for the millennial that the economic destitution of the society was timed to dovetail with the debasement of the educational system.
Absolutely! At a time, or the same time, when colleges (Including Harvard, Columbia, Yale) began pushing students left until there were too few to push, Then the poor high school students just entering these liberal bastians of higher learning didn;t need pushing. I was there. I was angry. Didn't use my degree.
Perhaps they timed this so that when the time came for this https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-extinction-plan-uep
Few would not comply?
Surely any discussion of so-called balanced intelligence should include an acknowledgment of moral intelligence, even though many might believe that such intelligence doesn't actually exist; and moral intelligence issues from a sense of healthy shame which Russian philosopher, Vladimir Solovyov called "the true spiritual root of all human good and the distinctive characteristic of man as a moral being." Shame leads to guilt and guilt safeguards human conscience, natural shame being the root of moral intelligence; historically and to this day we have been surrounded by countless examples of the absence of a sense of healthy shame and moral intelligence; those who fail to develop this affect system may become less than human and be dominated by forms of psychopathy (today's ruling elite) which seek power and control in continuing efforts to victimize and dehumanize the rest of us; humanity has been and will continue to be manipulated by those who have never developed or who have denied human conscience and its spiritual root in healthy shame and moral development; psychologist, Erik Erikson referred to humanity as "unfinished human beings" because so many cling to a "prolonged childhood" in an effort to avoid personal responsibility for the task and the work needed to become fully human; and that task entails taking responsibility for any and all forms of intelligence that may have been granted by our creator who gave us freedom and the ability to choose as part of our human nature.
So true, our whole parish (600 souls? ) and priestly Society have been fighting for the true Traditional Catholic faith for 40 plus years, and guess what, have been fighting the whole vaccine/covid farce , too! Is this a coincidence?
rare. I don't know many organized churches who resisted. I believe the Vatican & even the Dalai Lama said to take.
I think as we learn more about mirror neurons it will add to our understanding of dangerous group think. A family relative was told by a teacher he was not good at math over one poor exam result. He believed from that point forward he was not an intelligent person, despite his genius sense of humour. What a terrible pity, because it was the teacher that was in that moment acting stupidly. It is so interesting to read up on brain lateralization. It seems to me that it is healthy to strive toward balance. Many teens and college students have to work as well as attend classes and study, then there is the computer game addiction. I wonder what the outcome would be, if parents did a deal with their older kids. Instead of gaming and working, go outside, spend time in nature, engage in creative projects and hobbies that are relaxing, and keep up with schoolwork. A work ethic is vital, but so is balance. As Robert L. Stevenson wrote in 'An Apology for Idlers' It would be easy to leave them (children) in their native cloudland, where they figure so prettily—pretty like flowers and innocent like dogs. They will come out of their gardens soon enough and have to go into offices and the witness-box. Spare them yet a while, O conscientious parent! Let them doze among their playthings yet a little! for who knows what a rough, war faring existence lies before them in the future?
Yes!! Reminds me of Dr. Peter Gray’s work “Free to Learn( Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier More Self-Reliant and Better Students for Life)”!!!
I think so. I am applying my suggested experiment on my own teen, with good results so far.
Over the years, an art teacher told me my art was "pathetic." So I never tried that anymore.
Then my mother informed me that my music was not performance quality, so there was no point pursuing music school (NOBODY told me anything about music therapy or education!).
Then my father informed me that I was "bad at maths" (slightly lower SAT than language) so no point considering engineering or medicine....
These little things stick. Stupid teacher.
I think those words are not 'little things' they create huge stumbling blocks in the psyche of young people. In the book The Four Agreements, the author says statements like that are curses. Steven Spielberg's mother told him he could do great things, and he did because the right belief seed was planted.
I'm curious if you think this covers people of all ages. I graduated from a crappy high school in 81, my husband in 79 (so we're in our early 60's). I didn't learn much of value in school. We went to engineering school, where I continued to a masters. My attitude always was to learn the material, not to pass a test, although I got all A's because you can't half understand something. We became engineers, then business owners. None of our parents were intellectuals or exposed us to the types of critical thinking and broad ideas that you're describing. (Their idea of a thought is to parrot Fox News opinion pieces.) So it certainly didn't come from our schools or our parents. But we had those qualities anyway. From the time I was little I was told by numerous people that they'd never seen anyone more analytical. Every other word out of my mouth was Why? Our whole lives we have been questioning why, learning things we never learned in school, understanding how things really are. In the past 10 years I've delved into the history of our country and seen with discouragement that it's nothing like I thought. Every decade we seem to have completely different views, as we learn and see more.
So do we learn these things or are we born with them? (Or do they result from what happens to us in other ways, such as experiencing trauma when young which destroys some people but seems to give other people superpowers.) Are there people who really do benefit from good teaching? Would I have if I ever encountered any good teachers? Would everyone, and if so how would we train enough people to be good teachers?
I was that way too!
One pastor told me to stop asking why in Parochial school. He taught us religion class and during the changes in the Vatican Two reforms he was happy to inform us that seminarians would not longer be taught there is an entity called "Satan". Thirteen at the time, I raised my hand and asked how these future priests would then believe in God. Years later, my mother told me he called the house at night and demanded to know what I was reading.....she said "The Bible and the prayers in her Missal."
Jung claims that Satan is Jesus' twin (evil twin if you like). That until Jesus, there was no need for Satan. I'm very horribly paraphrasing, and I'm sure that Jews have some form of Shaitan...
Brilliant question!
I've wondered about the bulk of "uncurious people" around me. While I'm burning to learn more, have conversations about learning more - they're so happy to just stay in their lane, and are completely uncurious about anything that might deviate their course.
Is it born? Or made?
I am uncertain if it is possible to train people to be effective teachers. It is something that is developed through our experiences. I also have always asked why and was often told that I ask too many questions.
Depends on what we mean by "train". The etymology of it is to learn how to follow in the footsteps of the person ahead of one. To submit to Tradition. Hence you can't be a Knight until you have been a Pageboy.
Now that the late Enlightenment has detonated such submissions in the West, including between parents and their children, I guess being an autodidact is the only thing left. But it too is problematic. Promoting it will also increase long term divisions.
Apprentice! I hope that Midwestern Doctor has plenty of Pages coming up!
AMD sounds like an autodidact. Probably high in Openness and Conscientiousness and low in Agreeableness and Neuroticism. An autodidact gains by joining a lineage because it allows one to successfully "train" those that are of a different type/constitution to oneself.
Chinese Medicine still does things this way, away from the hospital system anyway.
The Covid debable opened my eyes that the most intelligent people seem to be the ones that are most easily fooled into compliance with stupid sh*t.
Many "Intelligent" people grow used to the positive attention and awards and praise that come from succeeding within the narrow framework of A, B, C or D government-approved teaching and testing. I was one of those, but luckily I escaped. I was in consideration for a Rhodes Scholarship, never suspecting that it was the gold standard for trapping and turning bright minds to become part of the cabal.
If you get hooked on that kind of reinforcement, if you blindly follow the positive reward system in place, then you have to detox and reset, give up the drug of outside authority-based approval, and live according to a new, healthier paradigm, or you may be led by the nose (IQ-test based programming) for a good part or all of your adult life.
This is an insidious way to siphon off the most intelligent people and essentially use their gifts against them, the way a skilled martial arts fighter uses the weight of his opponent to throw/kick them to the mat. I view allopathic Medical School similarly, with the sleep deprivation and very narrow way of looking at health and healing. You have to break out of the drug-only paradigm and face the disapproval of your peers for using your own true, creative, right brain intelligence and embracing a broader paradigm such as AMD has done.
In my case, I got really bored with it.
I just spent the last hour or so reading this article on DMSO as well as some of the links within the article. I have followed a holistic way of life for many years….an amazing doctor of Naturopathy my support over the years. However, I’ve never before heard of DMSO. Will bring this up for discussion next visit.
I live in Canada and would sincerely appreciate knowing where, how I might find DMSO. Much appreciated!
DMSO is widely available from Amazon and a variety of other on-line sources as well as from major pharmacies and health food stores; it's important to purchase pharmaceutical grade formulas and follow recommended guidelines as well as doing some independent reading and research.
I cannot find it either in health food stores or farm supply ones and I boycott over capitalized monstrosities like the "A" one you mentioned.
I guess I'll have to figure out a way to make my own!!!
Are you kidding!? I am presently using a formula from NAKA (Enhanced DSMO with Aloe Vera) purchased from my HealthWise Natural Health store; they have both liquid and gel formulas; you can also purchase directly from NAKA pharmaceuticals and countless other Natural remedy companies and even from pharmacies who may carry it(the Naka formula is Canadian made).
When interested people seek to buy some DMSO, remember that there are a number of grades of the material and the lower grades will produce a more pungent body smell and garlicky taste in the mouth. Amazon, I believe, has a grade which has the lowest level of contaminants and it minimizes the nettlesome smell/taste components while taking it.
Amandha D. Vollmer. She has written a book on using DMSO. She is in Canada.
https://healingwithdmso.com/
https://open.substack.com/pub/amandhavollmer/p/76-vaccine-studies-and-more?r=182o2z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://yummy.doctor/
https://rumble.com/v4aq41r-prevent-radiation-damage-with-dmso.html
I live on Canada and purchased dmso from well.ca
Many have great short term memories, which leads to excellent test scores, but are far from intelligent.
Striving for comprehension and deep understanding is not the goal of education. Many teachers "teach to test." I abhore that practice. I know many are horrible at tests due to stress and the formating of the questions. This is done on purpose to cause additional stress and dissociation. It is difficult to bring a child out of that hole once they have been buried.