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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
At the moment, the American system of compulsory (K-12) and coerced/beguiled (13+) education is receiving the furry eyeball at an extraordinary degree of public visibility.
About time. Here are some contemporaneous indications:
Glenn Reynolds, and, and, and, and
Power Line: Brown v. Board of Education didn’t actually overrule Plessy v. Ferguson
Adwaitha Hermitage, and here, and here, and here
This should be a concern of the churches, to de-compel and re-model state-education generally. Long ago should it have been. Long since it is a concern of the Church, Who is active on this account. Eventually, teachers, professors and administrators, who today are the dam against the free flow of life, will drown in their own colossal stupidity, cupidity and selfishness. Horace Mann was allowed to standardize US primary and secondary education on the Prussian model, which was for turning out industrial workers. Not bad per se but not relevant now. Not since the 1950s at least. And he induced states to make it compulsory. Bad per se. Generations of politicians, parents, soi-disant educators and, later, unions made it coerced and beguiling post-secondary. Really, really bad per se. Both the model and the compulsion/coercion/beguilement are inhibiting life force (élan vital).
Update 1: Confessions Of A Public Defender
Update 2: Race Relations And Law Enforcement
Update 3: Why The American Church Should Go Off The Grid
Update 4: France’s Catholic Revolution
Update 5: George Handlery: The Structure Of Education Is The Structure Of Faith
Update 6: This British Vicar has figured it out: Christian Life In Exile
Update 7: First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education
Update 8: How Far Should Churches Go to Appeal to Men?
Most successful way to appeal to both men and women: Male only church leadership.
Men love to belong to male dominated organizations. On the other hand, women love to belong to male dominated organizations. Don’t believe me? Have you ever thought it was odd that women always want to belong to men’s business organizations, men’s career fields, men’s social clubs, men’s athletic clubs, etc., but men avoid women’s organizations.
I once attended a large and rapidly growing conservative Lutheran congregation which had a male-only leadership. I was astounded by two things. First, board and congregational meetings were more calm, to the point and productive than any church meetings I have ever been to. In three years, I never heard someone said, “Well, I feel . . .” Second, it had the strongest bunch of women I have ever known in any church I’ve ever attended. Having men in visible, public leadership roles and the women in deeply influential, behind the scenes roles worked very well for that congregation.
I suspect the church’s acquiescence to feminism in the sixties and seventies badly damaged it. As men fled the church, the church did not become larger. It did not even get more women members because as the men left, the women follow them out the door. The more women want to be in charge, the more men leave. The more men leave, the more the women leave because an organization is only valuable to them if there are lots of men in it. It’s deeply ironic, isn’t it?
Update 9: We Will Never Fix Campus Indoctrination Until We Cut College Subsidies
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
