Child raising is stressful. From a coldly anthropological point of view, it’s amazing the number of different systems that human beings have come up with to alleviate those stresses, from widespread infanticide to modern modes of education.
I won’t dispute that modern modes of education are preferable to
infanticide. That said, I can’t think of anything else about them that is clearly positive.
At one end of the Ed Business, state legislators
are having to pass laws to prevent little tots in elementary school being indoctrinated with crackpot theories about sex and race [
Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Historic Bill to Protect Parental Rights in Education, FLGOV.com, March 28, 2022]. Those theories teach the tots that sex is just an illusion, that you are whatever sex you think you are today.
Race, they teach, is likewise an illusion,
except—somehow—that white people carry a sort of virus called “whiteness,” which is evil and oppressive of nonwhite people. Last week,
I quoted you the abstract of an article in a journal for professional educators. The
abstract concluded with the statement that
We hope our work contributes to Critical Whiteness Studies’ goal of dismantling whiteness.
That particular journal,
Physical Review Physics Education Research, [
Tweet them] is for teachers of physics, which I guess is probably not on the elementary-school curriculum, except perhaps in China. There is not much doubt, though, that our five-, six-, seven-, and eight-year-olds are in the daily care of people who take this gibberish to be Holy Writ.
That’s one end of the Ed-biz spectrum. At the other end, that same crackpot ideology is supreme. Credentialed, tenured professors at universities of the highest repute propagate its dogmas with all the earnest intensity of medieval theologians teaching about Transubstantiation. Dissidents from it are
howled down and
assaulted at our most
prestigious, most
expensive colleges [
A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury, by Peter Beinart,
Atlantic, March 6, 2017].
And those
colleges don’t just preach anti-white dogma, they
practice it. Almost all of them discriminate flagrantly
against white people in their
admissions processes [
The Myth of American Meritocracy, by Ron Unz, American Conservative, December 2012 (PDF)]. They also discriminate
against Asian applicants, although that at least
is being litigated [
Asian-Americans Fight Back Against School Discrimination, by Jason L. Riley,
WSJ, March 1, 2022]
And the connection between those two ends of the spectrum is a direct one. Our universities inspire, and very often
actually contain, the Schools of Education to which
young adults who have
failed to distinguish themselves as undergraduates
direct their steps.
Some of these young adults, I am sure, are idealistic in their keenness to shape children’s minds by filling them with the ideology hammered into their own heads by college teachers with impressive credentials. Others are opportunists, attracted to a line of work that offers long summer vacations and the
protection of our
most powerful labor unions, before whom state legislatures grovel and beg.
Scanning the entire educational spectrum, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our system of education is rotten from kindergarten up through to graduate school. Given a choice, you wouldn’t want anything to do with it.
Here we get back to
Morland’s Trilemma: countries have three options, of which they may only choose two:
- Ethnic continuity.
- A thriving economy.
- A comfortable lifestyle without the huge stress of mixing child-raising and a modern economy.
Americans are, in fact, given a choice. The choice is to accept or reject Option Three in the trilemma.
You can hand off your kids to the education system; or—unless you are talented in some very remunerative way, or the heir to a large inheritance—you can forget about you and your spouse both enjoying well-paid careers and resign yourselves to comparative poverty while you give over your time and energy to raising your kids in a way that does not fill their heads with poisonous nonsense.
But I may in fact have overstated Americans’ options there. Yes: you can, if you’re willing to make the sacrifices, shield your kids from the educational system.
The Ruling Class who promote this sinister ideology are ahead of you, though. They haven’t just taken over the schools, they also have the corporate world firmly in their grasp, including that subset of the corporate world that produces entertainment for children.
The Walt Disney Company, for example. Not merely “for example,” in fact, as Disney owns or part-owns a huge slab of the corporate world offering entertainment and instruction to our children, from
Marvel Comics to
National Geographic.
Longtime readers of VDARE.com have known for years that Disney is a ruthless enemy of America’s Middle Class. At least as far back as April 2015
we were reporting on the cold-blooded way Disney was laying off IT employees
en masse so that they could replace them with cheaper foreigners on guest-worker visas.
