This will be short. I’ve been thinking about philosophical, educational, and advertising fads, sometimes all mixed together. This thinking was spawned by two recent events. The first and most important was an email from my granddaughter who is a senior in high school in Virginia near Washington, D.C. She is trying mightily to get into West Point. She is a reader and I often buy her books. Today she wrote the following, please note the emphasized section:
I also finished: The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen. He is absolutely phenomenal! I wish we would read what he writes in school, instead of social inequalities. Allen is very inspiring and insightful! He is my new favorite author! So, thank you so much for introducing him to me!
It’s sad to me that High School teachers are so indoctrinated that their job is to engineer social change that it permeates, nay saturates secondary education--indeed education at every level. My granddaughter is no dummy and it bores her. Moreover, she knows and I know, it is not education, it is indoctrination.
And have you seen the latest add by the Girl Scouts on TV? It is promoting the leadership angle for young women. I think five or six girls have one liners. What kind of leadership are they promoting? One wants to be a congressman ("oops-"congresswoman"), another a senator, another wonders if she needs to be a mayor before going national, and the last one sarcastically asks why there are so few women in government? There is only one message here. The only place for women to be leaders is in government. Nothing there about business, education, science, not to mention the home. Why? Well to engineer social change of course.
Modern culture in whatever form worships at the feet of the gods of social change and diversity--the great philosophical fads of the day.
It all bores me too, Hailey!
Let’s think together again, soon.
