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[mrph]

More than twenty people have been arrested in Britain in a plot to kill thousands of innocent air passengers. The British press is undoubtedly looking frantically for somebody to blame. But they won't see the most obvious one: the tax-funded BBC.

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[jruske.livejournal.com]

Interesting. The US education system - particularly the slanted social studies prepared and provided to my generation and possibly later - was extremely anti-American. For example Nacirema's (http://web.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html) was required education to show American adolescents in the 9th grade (15 years old) how the American culture was distorted and irrational. (Note that Nacirema is American spelled backwards.)

I made the mistake of protesting in class abot 15 minutes into the lecture, but luckily it wasn't the current facist public school system currently in place in the USA, so I was simply asked to wait in the hall so the rest of the students could be indoctrinated before they figured out the word reversal. (Currently I'm pretty sure the public school system would have demanded I be medicated or otherwise restrained and contained for being disruptive by asking questions like "Why?" and demanding an explanation for "How?"

But I don't see the school system or the media for being to blame. I see the families and communities. The school system and media are third parties - they provide what they provide. It is up to the family and the community to dispell the stupidity, to explain, to teach critical thinking.

If you depend on a bureaucracy or a business to teach critical thinking... then you are a fool.