Something is Fishy

[Amortisatie]

Ok, ever since i have been going to my new school (started last year), we have been getting summer reading books and assigned movies to watch, yes it sucks and is quite retarded, but something still confuses me. Every book I read and movie i watched were about fighting the system, anti-conformity, and basically think for yourself.

I found this rather peculiar, since it is school, and honestly i have no idea what they attempting to do, and i'm sure it isn't coincidence. I mean, wouldn't a school assign books about conforming to society and/or a certain religion or a single mode of thought? It doesn't add up. It also makes them hypocrites, the english teachers are probably like "we make kids watch movie about freedom, therefore our skool is speshul", and yet they still place some of the most freedom-restraining rules and regulations possible.

Thoughts?

[Raikuron]

Hmm. Maybe this is a sort of coup de grace to turn around and tell you about how horrible these things are and why they are wrong... Other than that, I got nothin'.

[Rebelnerd]

What better way to make someone obey you than to convince you that you're their liberator? Schools love the whole "we're here to educate you so that you can be a thoughtful, independent member of society and not a factory laborer" speech. And all they ask for in return for this great service is total obedience. It's basically Animal Farm: of course us pigs should be in charge, it's what's necessary to protect our farm's freedom from Farmer Jones! You don't want Farmer Jones to come back, do you? It's your duty as freedom-loving animals to do whatever it takes to protect your rights, including obeying the pigs!

[Amortisatie]

Rebelnerd Wrote:What better way to make someone obey you than to convince you that you're their liberator? Schools love the whole "we're here to educate you so that you can be a thoughtful, independent member of society and not a factory laborer" speech. And all they ask for in return for this great service is total obedience. It's basically Animal Farm: of course us pigs should be in charge, it's what's necessary to protect our farm's freedom from Farmer Jones! You don't want Farmer Jones to come back, do you? It's your duty as freedom-loving animals to do whatever it takes to protect your rights, including obeying the pigs!

I doubt i could put it anymore clearly than this, the movie was "Dead Poet's Society", it was a great movie, but then i remember my school assigned me that movie, so i was all perplexed (hope i used the right word there), i'll guess that's the reason, thanks RN.

[Rebelnerd]

Also, there is always the (infinitely creepier) chance that they really do want to encourage free though and honestly don't see any hypocrisy in this. Remember, most adults don't consider controlling students to be a form of political oppression. To them, the idea of an obedient, subservient student is so ingrained that they see it as natural law, like dogs being pets for humans. They do want kids to think independently, but it never even occurs to them that the kids might realize how they're being oppressed by adults, because even they don't see it.
There is no evil conspiratorial council of educators figuring out ways to control students. Most of them just do it and never question it because that's always the way it's been. My guess is that if a vocal student rights protest occurred outside their schools and houses, they'd be stunned and confused.

[Reptorian]

The thing is that the kids have been involved into a similar environment decided to accept it as the result of habitual conditioning or conditioning someone to adapt to a specific environment that they get used to it. That why they don't see it because they don't have sufficient knowledge outside their experience and let just not forget their cognitive development is different than those whose path belongs into intellectual liberators or just intelligence and knowledgeable such as you and decent SS members. The reason I state this is because how we come here isn't only influenced by our environment, but our brain development leads into a different path too which leads us into this forum discussing things in a proper way. You don't see many people young our age in a properly raised environment thinking like us or even behaving like us.

As for evils, can't they be named ignorant controlling freaks instead?