I was helping a student study for his social studies test, which was about the economy and social hierarchy in the southern states before the Civil War. We talked about how the Bible was claimed as a source for Blacks being sub-human, and that led to the importance of keeping slaves from knowing how to read - because as long as they couldn’t read they had to take the word of what others told them, and people could spin them a huge lie. If they had been able to read they could have seen that the Bible says no such thing.
It is EXACTLY like the culture in America today. As long as people have no way to get access to the truth themselves, they have to just believe what the media tells them. It’s the historic way of keeping people ignorant and pliable.
It’s degrading, and it isn’t just about who can read and who can’t, although being able to read at least gives a person the opportunity to hear from the alternative news sources which ARE telling the truth and presenting evidence. There are a lot of smart, educated, capable people who are still as ignorant as a post because they STILL simply rely on what the news media tells them - because they won’t read the alternative news sources which are refuting the claims of the liars and reporting facts and evidence that the liars censor out.
And this goes on in colleges too. Students are required to use search engines which have censored out alternative news sources - and actually even official government sources - which give documentation and evidence. So even though those students can read - and are REQUIRED to read - they are not allowed to use sources that have credible documentation, but are stuck on the “MSM plantation”.
It’s a scam. So much about our society is a scam. And people of all races, socio-economic classes, education, etc are allowing themselves to be “useful idiots” because they simply trust what the media “masters” tell them, rather than read for themselves and find out they are being manipulated. At this point our government has been caught lying so many times they are about as credible as this gal who can’t read cursive but says she wrote this letter in cursive. But as long as people don’t know that (or care), ALL OF US are stuck on the corrupt government plantation, because those of us who know can’t do anything about it as long as our “leaders” fear the reactions of the ignorant majority.
When my daughter graduated, one of her final essays was on the Revolutionary war. She passed with flying colors. Her essay ENDED at Revere’s ride.
I asked her where the rest was.
“That’s all they taught us”.
Now she did know more, and I went into great detail with her teaching her the rest. But it just goes to show what passes for education today. I had ALL of the RevWar in 7th grade.
Well said, I have Shelia Jackson Lee in my area. Talk about feed her constituents a lie, I know this because I know them and I grew up there!