Defunding Postmodern Public Schools

 THE PROBLEM: Our tax-funded public schools, K through University, are indoctrination centers run by postmodern nihilists, i.e. those who claim that there is nothing more to human existence except lust for power, word games, and our feelings. That’s it. Nothing more. You might properly ask; If nihilism is true, then why isn’t it nothing? Postmodernists hope you’ll never notice their self-contradiction. If there’s no truth, then we ought not to believe their claims. Or, if you do throw logical contradiction at their core claims, they will retort that ‘logical contradiction’ is just another word game. Postmodernism, like Marxism, its father, is the ultimate ‘insulated theory’. Whatever criticism is thrown at it, slides off as proof for their claims. According the postmodern, there is no reality, truth, goodness, nor beauty. We just play word games with each other about such topics based solely on our ‘feelings’ about these words.  Of all the sins begat by the bastard children of postmodern academics there is only one original sin, i.e. replacing reason with feelings. This sin is as invidious as it is insidious for it is the gateway sin to all other contemporary aberrations, heresies, logical fallacies, and political upheavals. Worse still, this original sin and its corruption of mind/soul has been engineered by a linguistic theft on such a scale as to dwarf the looting of Egypt and India by the British Empire. Tax-subsidized teachers are the engineers of this draconian education robot.

Now three generations of teachers and professors have graduated from undergrads to professorships stuffed with the postmodern-nothingness that proclaims there is no Reality, no Truth, no Goodness, nor Beauty. This claim is not arrived at by any logical argument or evidence it is simply ‘proclaimed’ as though it were some self-evident revelation from… nowhere. The upshot is another proclamation; there are just…wait for it… ‘word games’ that we play with each other. Consequently, there is no right or wrong product of logic and best evidence presented to reason. There are only our feelings about words. Definitions are arbitrary and capricious. Accusation replaces proof. And these feelings are our only compass directing us in a turgid journey to a meaninglessness life embedded in nothingness. The very first application of this vacuous state of mind, this anti-philosophy, this mind abortion, was to words in ordinary language. Now, don’t be rude and point out all the contradictions accumulated in this paragraph. ‘Contradiction’ is just another word that we have ‘feelings’ about.

What can be done, if anything? Can reason resume its transcendent pride of place in making rational decisions? Is it too late to try? Dr. Roger Scruton and Dr. Jordan Peterson think it’s not too late, and we must try and they have a solution akin to that of Dr. Jason D. Hill in his Book We Have Overcome  Here's a link to my recent radio interview with philosophy professor, Dr. Jason D. Hill, DePaul University in Chicago

Recently, a colloquium was held called 'Apprehending the Transcendent'. It was  a conversation between Dr Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, moderated by Dr Stephen Blackwood, introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley, presented by The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and Ralston College, held on November 2nd, 2018 in Cambridge, England. At the end of that hour and a half conversation (go to video marker 1:15.00) dismantling postmodernism’s grip on public education they came to their solution. 

THE SOLUTION:  Defund all public-school education of tax-payer subsidies and “… let them sort themselves out.” according to Jordan Peterson. Schools that wish to continue indoctrinating their students imposing the postmodern curriculum will still be free to do so. They just won’t get a dime from taxpayers. Professor Peterson advocated this in Canada by suggesting the solution is to cut the budget of public universities by 25% until and unless they institute the only ‘diversity’ that really matters to a university, the diversity of ideas.  Sir Roger recommends, and Jordan agrees, we should de-fund all tax-payer funded schools and let them sort the transcendent classical wheat from the nihilist postmodernist chaff. This is a watershed moment in global education.

But this will take time to apply politically. Most tax-payers are still unaware of the problem; and such a solution will appear ‘madness’ to them even though they see the destruction of their traditional principles and values in their own culture every day.

So, is there anything that can be done now, right away to defrock the postmodern priests and priestesses masquerading as educators?  Yes. All of us, and any of us, can simply stop using the postmodern dictionary. Ransom and recover their sinfully stolen words crafted from their insipid ‘feelings’. Use their own emotional sacraments against them to recover our hijacked words. Since there is no ‘truth’ according to them, then any word can mean anything that anyone ‘feels’ it means.  ‘Feel’ that words mean what they mean and not how they have been hijacked to mean in today's culture. Use the proper meaning and not the hijacked meaning.

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