Educating Toward Fantasy

Public education, in the United States, is an appendage of government. It educates in support of our cultural delusions, toward an orientation to Authority, belief, and allegiance to existing systems. It functions to indoctrinate toward the support and perpetuation of a culture's institutions. Public education serves to continue the delusion instilling processes began in the home. In general, it reinforces the delusions, which makes real learning a punishing activity, the teachers and administrators affected by the same delusions. The teaching of reasoning and the means of achieving valid determinations is avoided. Questions are kept endlessly open, in the absence of indicationg evidence or definitive determination. Most determinations are based on authority, not discovery by the student.

Public Education supports the cultural myths and fantasies and continues to reinforce these delusions. Public Education tends to squelch natural curiosity and the quiestioning of social dogma. It inevitably encourages irrational goals and instills biases toward the accommodation of our institutionalized and codified delusions and stupidities.

Public Educarion in the Unites States also reflects the abuses of unionism, becoming a self-serving system of process, not product. In this systems, decreasing education costs more. It is a system where teaching is endless process, where teachers pretend to teach and students pretend to learn, neither sensing the ultimate realities.

Public Education maintains approaches and premises that hinder reasoning, the student's ability to react to false teachings and the ability to discriminate and reach valid determinarions. It conditions by reinforcing false premise structures and reasoning patterns that provide only an imagined facility in dealing with problems. It recognizes no absolutes in exitence and teaches none, providing no enduring referents for the student, nor a sense of the ultimate realtionships, unity and harmony.

Its products is increasingly unfit for a technological society or for an effective democracy, which depends upon a predominately rational elecorate for its only source and drive toward self-correction.

Private educarion is lost in a similar miasma, instilling its own irrarional cultural perspectives, reflecting how completely cultural fantasies permeate and distort public perception.

The arts and sciences are also adulterates in the maintenance of mucho of the basic fantasy structure. The whole realm of the Arts is forever being used as an instrument for manipulating perception and selling the authoritarian agenda. Music, in terms of the thought content it conveys, is perhaps the most effective unwitting servant of irrationality. Artists and songwriters are among the least knowledgeable in terms of the underlying ature of problems or how things relate. They express their ignorance, superstitions and distorted reasoning level of delusion. The artista become the nwitting disseminators of misconception and irratioanality, often producing gold plated manure that is wothout value, or of negative value, in terms of its effects upon the public.

Science is encouraged to accommodate the cultural fantasies, necessitating groundless premises, limited reasoning patterns and the formulation of tautological premises are avoided, largely by the routine rejections of basic premises are avoided, largely by the routine rejection of new information originating from any source other tan institutional science. Although less affected by cultural delusion tan other áreas and cultural structures, science does not escape its influence, the are of physics now far afield in misdirection.

The mentally damaged masses enthusuastucally join in the process, propagating and proliferating public dementia. This virulent síndrome is self-generating and self-reinforcing. In all cases, the phatology, ultimately, has its roots in belief, the acceptance of cultural borne ideas in the absence of supporting evidence.

The dynamics of our social systems are easy to understand and easy to follow, once one recognizes the fundamental delusions. The difficulty lies in recognizing the enormity of their cumulative pathology and the devastating effects cultural delusion has on our mental processes and our approaches to problems. We have no untainted standard of comparison and have been taught to avoid comparisons that might lead to effective discrimination between fact and fantasy.

In other words, we are so immersed in cultural delusion that w view the whole sad, sick mess as something normal and inevitable.

Hidden within this fog of popular delusion, the real principles and requierements of social functionality remain, the carácter of which we have not been taught and to which our ignorance and false beliefs renders us virtually blind.

 

THE LIVING INSTITUTION

 

One natural factor contributing to problems and the proliferation of propagnada lies in the nature of cultural institutions, themselves. Any organized or institutionalized group takes on a life of its own. As a living system, it has the power and the propensity to perpetuate itself. The organized structure survives individual minions and exerts powerful forces upon the individual within the organization. It is no longer confined to the characteristics of those in immediate control and always has a propensity to serve its own systems, often to the detriment of the public.

Institutions become self-perpetuating, their offices and systems operated by a succession of temporary functionaries bent on embellishing their own short tenures and whose reasoning and behavior have been largely shaped by the organization.

Institutional bureaucracy generates massive amounts of inertia, its moves, relecting the consensus of committees and the routine of accepted procedures. In the process, its integrity and rationality becomes but a shadowy vestige of that of its individual functionaries.

The organization moves as something alive, having a drive of its own, to grow and expand its sphere of influence, imhampered by any intrinsic madate for objective rationality or integrity, in contrast to such as found in the individual.

To my knowledge, no cultural institution in today's world has adopted objective rationality as a constitutional mandate, yet such rationality is necessary if the organization is to function as a positive forcé within a society, not being in some way at odds with social functionality.

No existing organization is likely to have true rationality as an operational directive, if for no other reason than that no one seems to understand its roots and how to achieve it. Rationality and a truth or reality-reflecting ethos is generated only as traits of individuals. It is a function born of knowedge and intellectual integrity,  understanding the necessity of accepting reality, like it or not, recognizing the necessity for social facilitation among entities.

Such rationality, rare as it may be, can be found in provate operations. However, within any large organization, it is usually a pale reflection of its source. Significant amounts of rationality, above that necessary for effective operation, are usually limited to organizations outside the realm of government, often under the direction of one individual.

Private organizations tend to be more ethical than governmental because they have to hue to the realities of the marketplace. Governmental committees tend to have trouble with reality. Their motives lie elsewhere, such as maintaining the support of their constituents. They characteristically do not move significantly beyond this point.