The Importance of an Education

In today’s time, it is vitally important to note that the purpose of an education, in part, is to not just to remember facts, or ramble off history, but rather to understand that the purpose of an education is to learn how to critically think, to analyze, to deduce through the process trial and error, and recognize the signs of tyranny at your door steps. We, here in America, couldn’t recogize tyranny even if it was delivering the mail to our doorsteps or staring at us in the face. Why? Because our own media are so busy showing us the tyranny of other nations, that they forgot to show us the tyranny happening here in our own land.

What we are witnessing in Iran, is not religious dogma run amok; religion is being used as the excuse for the state, in Iran, is committing the crimes it is doing to its own people. The same goes for China; culture is being use as an excuse for the state, in China, is committing crimes against its own people. The same goes for us here in America; an alleged pandemic is being used to institute the tyranny that befallen our sisters States. Of course, what was the line that the mainstream media, and mainstream authorities used? What was the common excuse that was used? I’ll give you a hint, it goes like this, “es ist zu deinem eigenen Besten!”

As a student of history, in evaluating nations that welcomed in tyranny, it is vitally important to remember this uncomfortable truth, that there is always a common line used, justification or excuse in and after every tyranny that has existed. In both past and present, they have this in common denominator for allowing it to happen, and it has always been: I was just following orders.