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We have been tricked into allowing a group of white collar criminals to take over our government. Why did this happen? Maybe Americans are, in fact, too conservative or maybe these cronies have better messaging…but that still doesn’t explain how we were so easily fooled. They tricked us because we simply aren’t intelligent enough to catch on.
Those of us who know better attempt to cure society’s ills with simple, elegant, “silver bullet” solutions (pick an issue: corporate personhood, media control, vote fraud, etc.). But success in any or all of these areas will only result in ultimate failure if our progress is not grounded in the minds of a critically thinking, intelligent citizenry.
Education is the only solution that, without a doubt, simply works. An intelligent citizen cannot be fooled by any amount of propaganda. Access to the right learning opportunities changes us forever, allowing us to seize our individual and collective human potential.
We also know that not all education is equal. We do not need more academic factories that indoctrinate us by killing creativity, passion, and critical thinking with too much fear, structure, routine, and memorization. Lacking is a curricula based on truth-seeking and Critical Thinking Skills, which are developed through work in areas such as Logic, English Composition, and Debate. Logic makes us immune to propaganda. English Composition and Debate are both unparalleled in helping students overcome flawed reasoning while at the same time giving them the skills they need to succeed in any academic or work environment.
Instead of expecting public education to fix itself, why not take matters into our own hands? Why not organize large-scale clubs, across the country, open to anyone who wants to join? We can call it Truth-Seekers. We can brand it, advertise it, and we can make education the new cool. We’ll start by getting enough smart people together to develop a curriculum that has maximum impact. We’ll teach the survival skills that start members on their individual paths toward wisdom. We’ll evaluate members not with grades, but by measuring their individual degrees of improvement. We’ll demonstrate such phenomenal results that membership in Truth-Seekers even becomes an extra-curricular activity, encouraged by parents, that even helps teens get into college.
The elite have their think-tanks to advance their cause; the simple-minded have their churches to advance their lunacy; but what have we offered lately but criticism? We know what works. With a lot of work, along with a lot of fun, we can open minds and change the future one mind at a time.
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