Enjoy the Winter Vacation
The K-12 schooling system practiced today in most institutions, both government-maintained and privately-funded, was developed over 150 years ago by the defunct Prussian Empire in what is now Germany.
Its aim was to produce a loyal citizenry, a functional labor class, and an almost limitless pool of soldiers to be used for expansion of borders and acquisition of wealth.
Its legacy after almost 100 years in practice was Hitler's Third Reich, wherein a large body of loyal citizens never questioned the actions of their ruler, produced record-breaking volumes of military supplies and readily joined the ranks of an army that had as a main goal the eradication of an entire breed of humans.
What is its legacy in the United States? A mindless consumerist culture wherein people beg to be corralled through airports or into military service, branded with a number that marks them as government property, labeled by any number of factors including lineage, religion and sexual preference, and segregated according to those labels into warring factions who are pitted against one another in order to divert attention from the real foes, our captors.
Think of this when you put your kids back on the bus in the new year.
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