Why Anarcho Capitalism is impossible

[noneedtoaggress]

The more I see these posts pop up, dripping with condescension, but saying nothing at all, the more I'm convinced the public schools are no longer the least bit interested in teaching critical thinking skills. Indeed, just the opposite--they seem to teach only condescension. In fact, I'd say they use condescension as a weapon to kill any critical thinking skills in the womb. What's that you're doing there, little Johnny? Do I detect an attempt at critical thinking? Well, now. Class, little Johnny is trying to think critically. Let's all laugh at him now.

Now children, we're going to teach you corporate socialism (but we do not say fascism), imperialism and fiat money. None of this stuff has a toe to stand on historically, much less a whole leg. But we're going to teach you to sneer the naysayers into silence, so don't worry about it...

The more of these I see, the more patient I am with people who approach us in humility--even if they could search the forum before they ask their question.

The purpose of public schools is to instill conformity to a particular state-approved mold of what a proper "citizen" should be. It's social engineering. From instilling obedience and submission to authority (regardless of whether the person in a position of authority is right or wrong), to school sports representing a microcosm of nation-state warfare (including School Spirit/Nationalism) and everything in between, they are pure and simple propaganda centers. Modeled after industrial factories, their product is the cookie cutter citizen tax slave who only really cares about government to votes in the presidential popularity contest, get some kind of benefits, or make pledges of allegiance at a sports game without even really taking into consideration what exactly he's pledging his allegiance to and his association to it.

This instillation of propaganda is continued as people "educate" themselves through the consumption of TV media personalities and other propaganda discussing issues in a dialectic that pits people into 2 opposing teams which always seems to involve increasing state power in some regard. Of course none of these issues are about anything as fundamental as principles, and mostly just contain appeals to people's emotions to back up their inconsistent frameworks.

Schools do the opposite of their purported purpose, by destroying a child's natural inclination to learn, as they turn the overwhelmingly joyful experience of discovery into an authoritarian, utterly boring, judgmental atmosphere in which the child is a product being hammered to fit the concept of a "perfect citizen".