From 7.29.2008
As
we read the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]--
we look for new and progressive ideas from various leftist perches. Problems
must only be solved by government as we
know. The liberals have no history unless they tailor certain strains and
provide some necessary redaction to the facts. Today we are treated to a
reinvention [Al Gore syncretism] of the history of education, work and American
success. As always, we will be on high
alert for new taxes, a general condemnation of capitalism and constant
reminders of imperialism. In the proper
propagandistic manner, we begin with a rhetorical question that is promptly
answered using the appropriate tenets of liberalism and what they frantically
barrowed from Karl Marx and J. J. Rousseau. Once the stage is set, the
feathers, kazoos and drums assist the intermezzo. The conclusion will always
end with a clarion call for new taxes.
The Babbling Brooks
begins with a history lesson on education:
“Why did the United States
Missing
here is the salient information that we fought disgusting savages, the weather,
bugs, the British and had a juicy war with the Indians, then the French and
Indian alliance, then British and Indians, the British with help from the
French and more. The notion that
Americans were originally or singularly gifted with these anti-socialist
attributes [commitment to education, hard
work and economic freedom] is false. They had to shoot a whole bunch of
savages and British in bright red uniforms and then hang a few Tories to get
some relief from the feudal system. Our
ethics and success was derived spontaneously by casting off the shackles of Europe . The
Europeans are now even stupider than before and waxing dumber all the time.[3]
The facts are that given the freedom to
make individual choices, capitalism will always be reinvented in new settings
in a creative and positive way. The past leads to sloth, disease and
mediocrity. The leftist know that and
wail and moan and offer reasons why they should be able to squelch enterprise.
The History Lesson:
“Between 1870 and 1950, the average
American’s level of education rose by 0.8 years per decade”
“As Claudia Goldin[4]
and Lawrence Katz describe in their book, “The Race Between Education and
Technology,” America U.S. U.S. Europe .
In 1950, no European country enrolled 30 percent of its older teens in
full-time secondary school. In the U.S.
This is irrelevant. This
correlates with nothing. What does correlate is the destruction of society by
Marxism. Nobody surpassed the propaganda training of the USSR
I
suppose we can trust the minutiae here as they only set the stage for some far
left and probably Feminazi-inspired [spelled
FemiNazi for emphasis and not to be confused
with the EcoNazis [5] a similar form of mental illness, churlish behavior and envy]
screed from
Claudia, her forte at Harvard where all new ideas flow like honey from the tall
trees. We should now look for the new
and progressive explanation of how our taxes must be hiked and government
should more closely control education. It follows.
“But the happy era ended around 1970 when America
It
was not unhappy for the industrious
and entrepreneurial. It is unproblematic to thrash the sorry leftists in the
social arena, college, work, investments, business and most societal
attributes. They are losers and demand that others lose with them to attain
‘equality.’ This bold analysis cited above omits a wide-ranging analysis of SAT
scores, affirmative action blunders and tokenism, idiotic admissions policies
at former educational places like Cornell who had their academic credentials
stuffed in the latrines in the 80s and other major problems. The difficulty
occurs when you try to educate people in a university setting when they lack
the cognitive skills to understand or compete. Here basket weaving, rock and
roll, gay rights, group sex, black studies and other cookie courses are needed
to boost the GPAs of the mentally disnimble. Grades of “A” are rubber-stamp guarantees for
just signing up for such courses. That
keeps the mentally disnimble from flunking out, although it didn’t save Al Gore
from failing seminary. [6]The
liberals are skilled at crafting such follies and ‘proving’ that everybody must
be ‘equal’ when they are not.[7]
The liberals proved convincingly that
you really could make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse.
Here is the long-awaited
punch line and intellectual ‘discovery’ by the far left:
“Goldin and Katz
describe a race between technology and education. The pace of
technological change has been surprisingly steady. In periods when educational
progress outpaces this change, inequality narrows. The market is flooded with
skilled workers, so their wages rise modestly. In periods, like the current one, when
educational progress lags behind technological change, inequality widens.
The relatively few skilled workers command higher prices, while the many
unskilled ones have little bargaining power.”
This
gonjo-inspired nostrum is so hopeless that it is difficult to find a place to
begin the deconstruction of this leftist fluff. I could, seriously, scrape a
superior economic analysis off my shoes.
[1]
These are no correlation between the technology and mass education. If that had
been a requirement then, by definition, we could never have progressed from the
hunter-gatherer state that many far leftist society embrace, such as Cambodia North Korea
[2]
The industrial leaders paid for the discovery of new technologies such as
smokeless powder, the steam engine, air flight, plastics, transistors,
computers and electronic gadgets.
Now,
another Expert is piled upon the stage:
“The meticulous research of Goldin and Katz
is complemented by a report from James Heckman of the University of Chicago
In “Schools, Skills and
Synapses,” Heckman probes the sources of that decline. It’s not falling school
quality, he argues. Nor is it primarily a shortage of funding or rising college
tuition costs. Instead, Heckman directs attention at family environments, which
have deteriorated over the past 40 years.”
Here a social
‘scientist’ gropes for an excuse.
“Some children are bathed in an atmosphere
that promotes human capital development and,
increasingly, more are not. By 5, it is possible to predict, with depressing accuracy,
who will complete high school and college and who won’t.”
“I.Q. matters, but
Heckman points to equally important traits that start and then build from those
early years: motivation levels, emotional stability, self-control and sociability.”
Bong!! The essay against IQ
begins. Of course it is possible
to predict who will be successful in education, life, marriage, wealth and more
from simple IQ
tests. This screed is just anther attempt to scrounge around for an excuse to
promote the non-existent ‘equality’ that liberalism is grounded upon. There is
no equality given the facts given in the Bell Curve[8].
People are not equal, but this fact undermines
the leftist attempts to homogenize society. They would rather have brain
surgeons and nuclear physics chosen by their socials skills or politics than by
cognitive skills. Ignored are the leftist objections against the ‘nuclear
family.’ Where is the abortion effect
here?
This
clumsy piece of propaganda is a hopeless
attempt to rectify the notion that “…relatively few skilled workers command
higher prices, while the many unskilled ones have little bargaining power.”
This is so unfair, thus it becomes the cause celebre of the left. Why not lay around the student
union lounge, smoke dope and then be prepared for a top-level salary on Wall
Street.
There
is no solution to the problem of incongruent mental skills among people so the
disparity among people becomes the fulcrum of political action. There is no
solution so there is no end to the whining and attempts of create ‘equality’ by political means. That is
leftist mentality. This is an unassailable circular essay.
So, we
must look for the conclusion:
From
the ‘research’ activities above The Babbler comes up with three salient points,
as simple as a, b, c:
[a]
“ [The] … skills slowdown is the biggest issue facing the country.
[b]
“Boosting educational attainment at the bottom is more promising than
trying to reorganize the global economy.”
[c]
If you look at Barack Obama’s education proposals [“The G.O.P. is largely
irrelevant.” Ed] — especially his emphasis on early childhood — you see that they flow
naturally and persuasively from this research”
Political
stoogery in print. We need more education!! What else?? Let us rely on the
teacher’s unions to guild us back to prosperity by ignoring innate intelligence
while supporting social skills and political appeasements.
Obama
also wants to see fewer tests. [9]
I wonder why? Do SAT tests sort out the students by IQ??
This
mindless fluff whereby the intrinsic inequalities of society are somehow swept
under the stoop by ‘progressive’ thinking is so naive and hackneyed that it is
astonishing that Brooks would rescrub this latrine. This brings new meaning to
the word tautological.
This
set of sorry nostrums is the reason that socialist societies are in the
economic doldrums. They cannot become efficient because they select the most
awful possible drooling idiots to make the laws, provide governance and
populate their universities. The most effective form of ‘education’ for the
left is exemplified by the Madrasses[10]
of the radical Islamic-Fascisti. Harvard gets a C- compared to those
schools, which are very effective.
This
current NYT article a highly sophomoric screed that attempts to open the back door to Communism again. All
that is missing is “…each according to his needs” or some comical notion of
shedding chains. It attempts to revive the glory of the Khmer Rouge as they did manage to attain some form of ‘equality’ as
we must assume from the eternal praise of these monsters from the left. We must
recall that Mao appointed some intellectual discard lacking a college education
to be in charge of Peking
University Harvard University
IQ tests
clearly show
us who should be [and who should not be] making decisions in government and
industry. We need menial tasks and
menial pay for those who slog the ruts of intellectual mediocrity. Those are
customarily liberals and their victims.
As
a retired Senior Scientist with 6 patents, $50 million in product sales, 25
research papers [5 from Yale
Med School Viet Nam
There
is an eternal exploration for new ways to repackage communism (or worse) by the
left and inequality is their essential precept. They do not strive for equality
because they actually teach the opposite. They teach and insist on underperformance from
the masses to preserve their fragile perch in education. They are failures and
private schooling and such can easily beat the left and t heir phony
educational theories.
So, Hike Taxes and Educate! Sure.
This is one of the sorriest pieces of propaganda and leftist
sloganeering that I have read in the Times in a long time.
Defund Harvard—it is a
zoo. Put a dog in charge.
rycK
Comments:
ryckki@gmail.com
[1] In honor of that
celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the
NYT. The color RED
is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be
one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.
[2] The Biggest Issue By DAVID BROOKS Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 29, 2008
[3] Stupid, More Stupid and
the Idiot Europeans Investigated and Explained.
[5] The EcoNazis and
Reality: Klaus Offers to Debate Al Gore.
[7] Every citizen has
certain strengths and weaknesses as defined by accepted norms of conduct,
inherited skills, home training and are analyzed in detail by well-defined by
standardized test scores patterned from the scientifically verified Bell Curve. This process has been verified and has been
used with success since 1906. There is an obvious distribution of cognitive
skills among all individuals in all societies that serves to convincingly
refute the notion of ‘equality’ as the leftists define the term. It turns out
that certain leftist views of social conduct, particularly the choices to
appease the Marxists and socialists and cause the labors of citizens to be
misdirected, are socially and intellectually bankrupt and this fact need to be
emphasized in government and education.
The political term ‘equality’ is used to enlist the votes and support of
the lower classes and criminal elements thus confounding the simple notion that
we are all equal. We are not equal. The
tautological and perpetual quest for ‘equality’ actually generates and
validates the gross equalities they hypocritically harp about. These
inequalities produce self-designed opportunistic cracks in the social fabric and
thus create false strata in our society that are conveniently utilized by the
overt racists and far leftist radicals who desire power.
The
Road to Social Success, Peace and Justice: California
[8] The Bell
by
Herrnstein, Richard J. and Murray,
Charles Free Press of Glencoe , Inc, Old
Tappan , New
Jersey , U.S.A.
[9] Obama's Education Plan
to Reform Schools & Reward Teachers. “Tests
should not be designed as punishment for teachers and students, they should be
used as tools to help our children grow and compete.
Tests should support learning, not just
accounting. Because if we really want our children to become the great
inventors and problem-solvers of tomorrow, our schools shouldn't stifle
innovation, they should let it thrive.”
[10] A Global Perspective on Terrorism
and Organized Crime http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/rm/31861.htm
[11] rycK's
Bio: Achieving Prosperity In Spite of the Left
Posted
by rycK on Tuesday, June 12,
2007 9:06:28 AM http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2007/06/12/rycks_bio_achieving_prosperity_in_spite_of_the_left.thtml
[12] ““exterminate white people off the face of the planet”
by Kamau Kambo
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2822385p-9271047c.html.
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