Locke, Hobbes, Newton, Shakespeare, Milton ... the seventeenth century had great minds.
They were brilliant because they were Classically trained-—They could be critical thinkers because they understood most of the greatest minds and ideas throughout human history, and they had a Christian idea about individualism/morality (grew up with understanding the Bible).
Rev. Thomas Reid (Scottish philosopher/Common Sense) had a profound effect on the ideology which formed America——along with Locke and Montesquieu. His realism did get twisted into godless pragmatism which is interesting since he was a devout Christian and believed in Objective Truth-—not “evolution”.
Make sure your children/grandchildren are Classically educated. Without the understanding of Classical Ideas and the Bible—they will not be capable of being Wise—or understand anything. They will be like tribal groups.
Our ignorant masses, who voted for zero, is a result of evil John Dewey and the Socialists and decades of the removal of all the brightest ideas in the history of man including the idea of Jesus Christ-—all being erased by being mocked, marginalized and ridiculed in most media-—and morality being forced back to Pagan times-—where it is Good to use human beings as a “Means to an End” which demands Judeo-Christian Ethics to be erased in the minds of our children.
All public schools are reversing Good and Evil intentionally in our children-—they use operant conditioning so your kids will have the correct emotions tied to concepts (it is how they flip Good and Evil). With the enlarging of the limbic area of the mind which needs to be reduced/controlled to reach maturity-—their ability to use the critical area of the brain will be eliminated.This makes maturity impossible in adults.
There can be no future Locke-Milton—Reid with the stuff the public schools are putting into the heads of children-——”go spot go” mush and misinformation——instead of the verses from the Bible which are profound on many levels-—even use of complex language.
Classical/complex thinking grows the capability of the brain and expands it——Go Spot Go—bores and erases all the possibility of genius.
There are studies that prove this——that when young children are read to—complex ideas/language are absorbed easily which are not possible otherwise. IQ differences are noted as young as 1 and 1/2 years.
It is why zero wants universal preschools-—to get those kids out of the home and increase their stress levels which destroys IQ ——away from loving mothers who read and teach their children properly-—so they can be a Milton/Thomas Reid/Gen. Patton.
Can’t have people who “Think” in a Marxist world.