This is a lengthy, highly provovative article illustrating in explicit detail my thoughts on how America's inferior education system made the Great Recession not only a foregone conclusion of indoctrinated GroupThink, but prevents a true recovery from recovery due to the abject fear of price clearing. You may need to put your thinking caps on and exercise some patience and restraint with this one. I am going to follow it up with an explcit example of said groupthink by going against the conventional grain (yet again) and pointing out what many in the mainstream consider to be the most likely threat to economic prosperity in 2012 (and no, Iran is not even in the running on this one). I blame indoctrinated GroupThink for the inability of Wall Street to see the excessive coniferous expanse due to treebark blindness! Until the next post, though...
Dubois Speaks Through Me
The problem is plain before you. Here is a situation transplanted through the criminal foolishness of those gifted and/or empowered with the productive assets created and cultivated by our fathers. Whether you like it or not this country constitutes hundreds of millions of the diverse plethora that is America. They are already here, and here they will remain. If you do not enable the mechanisms that allow them to lift themselves up (versus the socialistic path of trying to lift all up), they will simply pull you down. Access to (and not the socialistic gifting of) productive assets (wealth) and knowledge, combined with the teaching of individuals to build strength of character are the means to which accomplish this.
Physical and/or mental labor (the staple of the working class) alone will not do it unless inspired by the right ideals and guided by intelligence and knowledge. Academic education alone will do little, for look at many of our brothers and sisters who are highly degreed, yet have a lower standard of living, lower general level of happiness and less inflation adjusted net wealth than their parents despite living in a age that fosters greater access to technology and resources. Successful education must not simply teach work, or instruct one on how to labor for the capitalist oligarchy — it must teach Life.
The Truly Talented of this country who are not extant members of the oligarchy must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture. No others can (or will honestly) do this work. We must train agents for in the education system – for the existing oligarchy not only benefits from the teaching of labor/work as the embodiment of success, but cannot truly exist without such for it is cheap labor that enables the oligarchy to amass disproportionate wealth at the expense of the working class - literally profiting off of the backs of others. To be honest, this is the way of capitalism. It is understandable and acceptable, but only to the point to which those laborers willingly accept their position. Once it comes to the point of attempting to force said laborers into their laborious positions through duplicity and guile, we not only foster the misallocation of valuable American resources (human, social and economic) but we squander what could be sown and fostered to make America a better and more competitive country, thus putting the great empire at risk of collapse for the betterment of the very few. America, like all great establishments, was created, and is going to be saved by its exceptional heroes – or collapsed due to the lack thereof! W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 channeled through Reggie Middleton 2012. Source/much more/full story