Perils of Professors

The above clip is from the 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front. Professors and teachers molding young minds open to suggestion to accept the teachers opinions and ideology as fact have long been a danger. In early 20th century Germany it was appeals to the "Fatherland" and honor. The results were disastrous for Germany.

Likewise, in Imperial Japan professors and teachers exhorted students to give their all to defending the honor of their family, Japan and the Emperor. To do anything less would bring shame - something so horrible to their culture that many Japanese soldiers refused to believe the war was over and continued to fight in solitary on remote Pacific islands until the early 1970's. They couldn't believe Japan wouldn't fight to the last person because of the way they were brainwashed.

Today we are seeing similar perils of professors in our own culture. Critical Race Theory means the US is by nature racist. Never mind the strides we have made in the past fifty years. Never mind the fact that women have more rights today than ever before. Never mind that the US is one of the leaders in gay rights in the entire world. In the minds of many "educated" youths all old white men are tainted no matter even if their names happen to be George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. 

When you look at who is participating in the rioting and looting in the liberal cities in flames these past few months - it is not the poor and downtrodden. It is mostly white children of privilege. Victims of brainwashing from their teachers just as the youth in Germany prior to World War I or the youth of Japan prior to World War II. 

In many ways today's election is a referendum on these beliefs that have been systematically embedded in the minds of youths while at the same time saddling them with mountains of student debt. It is a system of beliefs founded on a bedrock of sand. And the foundations of those teachings are hopefully crumbling.