Road Warrior Radio w/ Chris Hinkley

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Frank Zappa on education, Signs Of The Times, by Bob Guccione, Jr., - Spin (July, 1991)

I don't think it's any accident that the educational system in America has been brought to its current state. Because only a totally uneducated mass of people will be baffled by balloons. And yellow ribbons andlittle flags and buzz words and guys saying "new world order" and shit like that, I mean, only a person who has been dissuaded from any kind of critical thinking and doesn't know geography, doesn't know the English language – I mean if you can't speak English, then this stuff works on you.

One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the '60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what's in it. It's one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don't know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don't know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it? [emphasis added]

Frank Zappa, Signs Of The Times by Bob Guccione, Jr., - Spin (July, 1991)

Two things happening all around us that work [i.e. conspire] together a la unconventional warfare:

* ‘Slides’ - “a conditioned response which dead ends a person’s thinking, and terminates debate or examination of the topic at hand.” - current examples:

* vaccines, genders, gender equality, [insert polarized, ostensibly disenfranchised minority group here] rights, republicans, democrats, democracy, socialism, democratic socialism, positivism, climate science, climate change, global warming, inevitability, privacy, security, ‘assault weapons’ so-called, gun control, mental health, women’s health, national security, support the troops, UN, WHO,

* War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength - okay, but seriously… you get the point.

* ‘Eurasian Balkans’ - engineering chaos (a la chaos theory) - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Andrew Korybko

* dynamic ‘divide & conquer’ (i.e. balkanization) vs. static

* beggar thy neighbor, and reverse, designed to cause disruption, chaos, infighting - balkanization. Examples, in this case, of beggar thy neighbor (and reverse) agents provocateur:

* Peter Hotez: Why does the opinion of one man — who repeatedly admits ‘we don’t know’ — matter more, and rise above all others?

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