My Daily Indoctrination

[James Madison]

Hello, all. I thought I'd tell you about what happened today in my high school econ class. We were talking about monitary policy when the teacher mentioned the idea of elimintating paper money and digitizing the nations money. Being the good Ron Paul supporter that I am I said how bad of an idea this was. He just shrugged it off and went on talking about all the benefits of digital money. If that's not bad enough we were given an article about how great thumb scanning would be to prevent people's money from being stolen by criminals.

After class I was talking to one of my friends who is VERY pro-war and has a man-crush on Mitt Romney. I was saying that this is Big Brother just waiting to happen when my teacher said Big Brother was already here to stay. I said jokingly that I'd bring it down. My friend then responded by saying that it's pointless to try and get rid of it because it will just come back. I responded by saying that if you use that logic why should the US have declared its indepedence in the first place? Why didn't we just stay a British colony?

Basically, he thinks all RP supporters are anarchists.

 

[nate895]

Ooh, I was having a discussion in History Class and I got in a mini-argument with my teacher who said that we can shut ourselves off from the world and be fine and I said that that would kill our economy. I was able to get many points across in that class today without provoking an argument, it was really awesome. I even bagged on the teacher's unions.

 

[freedom-maniac]

Sadly, my Economics class is filled with Sheeple in the finest. Somehow I got put in the "Stupid class". I'm bored out of my mind, as we've spent the semester so far covering Supply and Demand, and nothing more advanced.

When we were talking about gas prices, someone asked why we don't just invade an oil-rich country and force its citizens to pump us cheap gas...I burst out, "Have you just been asleep for the last three, four, what is it? FIVE YEARS!"

Still, I'm doing my duty to enlighten the sheeple. Some of the more intelligent classemates are starting to understand why the government is inherently bad. One of my friends asked me why the government just doesn't take over the entire energy field so we can always have cheaper energy, and I explained to him what exactly Communism was. He seemed to get it.

Anyways, I have a project due Monday in which my partner and I explain what Fiat Money is. Most of the groups did "Supply" or "Scarcity" or some simple concept. We haven't covered Fiat Money in class (and I doubt we ever would).

 

[pennycat]

In a day filled with really tough news (I'm about to be railroaded out of the Republican Party Executive Committee) you students inspired me. Keep on fighting!

 

[RPTXState]

In a day filled with really tough news (I'm about to be railroaded out of the Republican Party Executive Committee) you students inspired me. Keep on fighting!

Wait, what?

Damn, I should read more.

The latest indoctrination I got was a Teacher's Assistant in Political Science taught a class on foreign policy....critical of the "Bush Doctrine" but still Very Interventionist. Incredibly biased too...bleh!

 

[freedom-maniac]

After class I was talking to one of my friends who is VERY pro-war and has a man-crush on Mitt Romney.

Sounds like one of my classemates, who's been my political rival since Middle School. I was sitting in Math class one day, of all places, arguing over Romney vs. Ron Paul. He laughed at some of my arguements, especially about how Ron Paul could win (I recited the Sam Adams quote, and he laughed saying something about beer). We were watching the news in our math class when a picture of Romney came up about winning some early primary state. He was like "Alright, Romney!" I said outloud, "Go Romney! Let's torture all those A-Rabs!" sarcastically to spite him.

In a few days our discussions would become more serious. They finally came to a climax about the war. He was saying that how we need to be in Iraq for just one more year. ("Yeah just one more year, and one more, and one more," I said,). Then he started talking about the soldiers, and something came over me. I started rehersing the arguement that soldier in the "Ron Paul vs. Mike Huckabee" video said, and I just kept ranting. Strangley, something seemed to come over him too. It was just a look on his face that told me that something I said had hit him....Anyways he switched schools only a week or two after that, ending our strange debates.

 

[nate895]

In a day filled with really tough news (I'm about to be railroaded out of the Republican Party Executive Committee) you students inspired me. Keep on fighting!

Why are you about to be railroaded out?

 

[James Madison]

In a day filled with really tough news (I'm about to be railroaded out of the Republican Party Executive Committee) you students inspired me. Keep on fighting!

Trust me if you were in my class you would probably see that we're in worse shape than you thought. And to make it worse I'm in the "AP" class; I couldn't imagine the regular class. Everyone just talks about how much they love Obama although there are about three or four RP supporters in there with me

Question for all you guys...have you heard of the We the People program? I took it last year and absolutely LOVED it. Basically the entire class competes against other schools from the region on Constitutional issues. We managed to get 1st in our congressional district but only got 6th at state.

 

[James Madison]

Bump

 

[nullvalu]

Bump

Don't waste your time trying to convince your teacher, people of his generation may well be hopeless. You're a young guy, and that's awesome.. focus on informing your peers.

 

[ThePieSwindler]

We've pretty much gone through the entire macroeconomic spectrum in my econ class. As for why economists might like digital money., well, from an economists point of view and based on the theory of money as a medium of exchange, it actually would be great from a liquidity standpoint. Of course, objections could easily be brought up against it other than the Big Brother objection (which i think is equally valid). You aren't being indoctrinated because the government has told them to say this would be good, its simply an economist's bias. Digital money would really allow for perfect liquidity and push transaction costs to nil. Unfortunately... the tradeoffs (something else an economist should be familiar with) are probably much worse than the benefits.

 

[nate895]

We've pretty much gone through the entire macroeconomic spectrum in my econ class. As for why economists might like digital money., well, from an economists point of view and based on the theory of money as a medium of exchange, it actually would be great from a liquidity standpoint. Of course, objections could easily be brought up against it other than the Big Brother objection (which i think is equally valid). You aren't being indoctrinated because the government has told them to say this would be good, its simply an economist's bias. Digital money would really allow for perfect liquidity and push transaction costs to nil. Unfortunately... the tradeoffs (something else an economist should be familiar with) are probably much worse than the benefits.

If you haven't been to one lately, schools are government run indoctrination camps.

 

[AJ Antimony]

Hello, all. I thought I'd tell you about what happened today in my high school econ class. We were talking about monitary policy when the teacher mentioned the idea of elimintating paper money and digitizing the nations money. Being the good Ron Paul supporter that I am I said how bad of an idea this was. He just shrugged it off and went on talking about all the benefits of digital money. If that's not bad enough we were given an article about how great thumb scanning would be to prevent people's money from being stolen by criminals.

After class I was talking to one of my friends who is VERY pro-war and has a man-crush on Mitt Romney. I was saying that this is Big Brother just waiting to happen when my teacher said Big Brother was already here to stay. I said jokingly that I'd bring it down. My friend then responded by saying that it's pointless to try and get rid of it because it will just come back. I responded by saying that if you use that logic why should the US have declared its indepedence in the first place? Why didn't we just stay a British colony?

Basically, he thinks all RP supporters are anarchists.

High school kids are dumb and always believe the MSM, but nonetheless their minds are easy to mold. The trick is to talk to them about something that matters to them.

High schools kids simply don't give a shit about Iraq, foreign policy, monetary policy, the Fed, history, facts, or the Constitution.

What they do give a shit about is how the government is, in their language, "completely screwing them for life." Say this, then they should start to listen. Mention something easy like freedom of speech and they will be interested and hopefully ask for more or start looking up more online.

This will most likely work on the "world peace <3" kids (democrats). Forget about the neoconservative kids who applaud Bush. They will NEVER listen.

 

[freedom-maniac]

This will most likely work on the "world peace <3" kids (democrats).

It really does. That's kinda what I was, plus a major environmentalist (I still am).
I liked Obama early on before any one knew who he was, and when it was "cool" to like Obama, I didn't any more. Thank God for Ron Paul.