as a school teacher you should know the system was designed to manufacture new working class citizens. the real useful information (how money works, how to build wealth and build a successful business, how to find and surround yourself with people who can add value to your enterprises...for instance) is never taught.

the curriculum feeds facts and figures to basically condition kids to conform to and accept a system where they are told when you be at a certain place (school/work), when to take breaks (recess/coffee), when they can eat (lunch) and when to go home after producing all day (grades/products or services) for the people that sign the paycheques (teachers/boss).

all of this, along with the way girls are dressing these days, is exactly why i gave up my aspirations to teach.

your whole culture is geared towards violence, might makes right, and fuck everything that doesnt jive with the official party line. surely you can see this? the whole american system is rancid with over-competitiveness, greed and ethnocentrism. from an outsiders perspective (im canadian btw so im not getting the perspective that a european gets although id love to hear if im off the mark from a non-american) it seems that the only thing america exports is war and entertainment.

but i digress...your system cant abide critical thought. thats the bottom line. this goes hand in hand with atheism because religion cant stand up to a thorough examination of claims and philosophy and the american system is in the same boat. you have presidential contenders accusing the other ones of being too educated or not pious enough to lead the country. your media feeds into that and the bullshit filters down to the kids. its hopeless and im sorry to tell you that the next generation will be the ones to being it all down because they wont know any better than to follow orders or make bad decisions based on the shit they are being shoveled by the media.

Hey, we export food too!

found this and immediately thought of you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPnDZ1Txlo&feature=share

Ron Paul 2012

In your opinion, what will Ron Paul do differently than the last couple Presidents?

End the wars, both the drug and military. Get corporate and elite management out of the executive branch. Provide and environment where value and hard work are the true regulations that the market needs to thrive. Allow individuals to take responsibilities for their own actions unless it attacks another's.

Do you honestly think a POTUS has the ability to do such things in our current (corrupt) political theater?

Look at history. We kill the people that try to bring us back on track...

Very true, but I think there is an exponentially larger population of people that understand the nefarious nature and past tendencies of our "government" to let that slide of it ever happened. There would be revolution and for the right reason.

What makes you think the masses would not accept a JFK assassination type story if the same scenario happened to Ron Paul once he was elected president?

Because of the general notion of the assassination would be present felt not a mindset that came gradually over decades. And he would also pick a VP up his alley and not have an LBJ type waiting (plotting). So even if that DID all happen and there weren't riots, the VP would continue those policies and if he were then "taken out" as well, you would almost guarantee upheaval.

Non-violent revolution will not happen in the US. It is faaaar to easy to manipulate people and the powers that be would be perfectly happy with a non-violent revolution because all it takes to guide the people is money.

What we need is a rude awakening. Something drastic and painful. People have to lose something close to them, whether it's their perceived freedom or their lives. It's the only way to shock people out of the ignorant stupor they've allowed themselves to enter.

But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

With so much secrecy within our Gov't, it's amazing that we can still claim We The People. It's more like, We The Priveleged People Who Work For Special Interests.

Money talks. So unfortunate.

Also, what you're saying kind of reminds me of this

I've been thinking about this too, a real democracy where the people decide everything and do not rely on some politic. And today, with the Internet, we have the possibility of creating this. The only problem here is the actual government which wants to keep their power...

And that's why every time I hear "nonviolent revolution", I remember all the abuse of power from the police. Do you really think the government will change its opinion on the citizens if they keep acting like sheep just waiting for the police to arrest them ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I

Google and Facebook are not the first business models in which you are the product. We are owned from birth... Why in the world do you think they would give us away? ...peacefully?

I think you are describing the Occupy movement.

Have you been to any Occupy events? You are reiterating a false narrative. The desultory nature of the early protests has given way, through open and direct democracy, to self-controlled, nonviolent, focused action. When warm weather comes the hibernation will end. Hopefully, more and more people, such as yourself, who have resigned themselves to the idea that mass demonstrations "won't change anything", will join us simply because doing something is probably better than doing nothing.

this spring will be interesting to say the least

have you been to a protest or are you just parroting what you have been fed by the media?