NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
I thought all my schooling was a terrible joke.
Middle school thought me valuable lessons about authority figures and how WWII was the only thing that ever happened in history. Ever since then I’ve had a problem listening to anyone telling me what to do. Especially if they include the words “its for your own good” or “i have the rules behind me”. The law is an ass.
Depression, boredom, and hopelessness were the three feelings that weighed heavily on me. My teachers could never figure me out. My parents said i wasent trying hard enough and they were damn right, but they refused to listen to my reasoning about why i was failing. I just couldn’t take the busy work. I could never figure out how answering a bunch of mindless questions on a piece of paper signified i sufficiently learned a concept or historical event. it produced nothing but 30 other similar copies. The curriculum in my mind came to signify conformity, there was no room for independent thought.
I realized in late 2002 that the teachers were the products their “education”, the standard attitudes developed in their jobs and the JOB ITSELF was the problem. I realized that underperforming schools wasn’t just the folly of the student, it was the system. It failed big time (or succeeded) and no adult could see there was no hope in reforming it, they all wanted to see more money go to it. I knew what i was feeling had to be shared by others. I made one of my lifelong goals that day, the complete and total destruction of the education system.
Once again i feel depressed knowing that i still wont be learning by attending the university system, but this time spending vast amounts of money to be there. I really don’t know what to do about college and the depression both are tender on my nerves right now.
Comment by Sam
ME:
I can’t get over the fact that Sam said he was just plain scared.
Inspired by Sam, I am going to make a statement that will destroy any shred of respect any remaining Tough Guys out there ever had for me. If you read “Mensa Working People” you will get the impression that I had all the “educators” figured out and that, when I entered the university of age sixteen, I went in with a courageous laugh.
Young Bob was scared witless and something that rhythms with it. The doofuses professors had sent staggering out into the public school teachership had been flunking me and I was about the face the professors THEMSELVES.
All this is easy for me to say at 65, but when I was 16 I was fifty percent sure I was the doofus, not them. They were out there in the “real world,” and I had no acquaintanceship at all with it. Before every single test my stomach was in a knot. I could see myself sitting there facing questions that were an absolute blank to me, while all the regular high school graduates around me, people who had qualified the regular way, went right ahead and dealt with them. This lasted for YEARS.
Now to what I think is Sam’s real fear.
Remember that everything I say here should INTERCONNECT. In My last article on “Fear,” I made a statement few but Sam could identify with. I said that it wasn’t just that Teddy Roosevelt inherited enough money so that he would never have to work, but that his father and his family did not EXPECT him to work.
Anyone but Sam and I would tend to say, “Well, hell, if he had the money, why should he care what anybody thought?”
Joe Kennedy, father of John and Teddy Kennedy, gave each of his children one million dollars tax-free cash when they reached their twenty-first birthday. This was in the THIRTIES AND FOURTIES, and you know how much a million was then. Papa Joe said he did that so that “My children can tell me to go to hell if they want to.”
Actually every one of Joseph Kennedy’s kids lived in terror of him all their lives. He EXPECTED everything from them. He wanted his oldest son to be president and when s oldest son got killed in World War II, the burden fell on John. John Kennedy joked about that when reporters kidded him during the 1960 campaign about his father buying the election for him.
He said, “I told my father I just needed enough votes to win. I don’t want him to pay for a landslide.”
People who can make jokes like that have been through hell. A good sense of humor usually comes from a lot of pain.
Sam is terrified that his parents are going to think he’s a dunce. And I can’t assure him that they WON’T.
Do you have any idea of the kind of guts it takes for a man of eighteen to admit that he is afraid of parental disapproval? We live in a world where we are taught that eighteen-year-olds were out saving the world in fearless combat (in Nam, now that the WWII crowd is dying out). And here is Sam admitting that he is a guy living at home who is afraid of what his parents will think.
All the Tough Guys will look down on Sam. You are more than welcome to look down on me, too. But this is harder on Sam because I am old and I have really found out what morons they are. Lord, I HATE Tough Guys, and I think you can see why. I will take Sam over a million of them.
Saint John Kennedy, combat veteran and president, was terrified of his father until the day he died. Teddy Roosevelt had a priceless advantage John Kennedy would have given ANYTHING for. All this INTERCONNECTS with Sam. And Sam had the guts to bring it out.
#1 by Alan B. on 10/17/2006 - 1:54 pm
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Its tough to think and act outside the system, conformity and compliance is what is expected from you, it’s the everybody else has done it now its your turn group mentality. Your scared and I would be too, your folks want the best for you and here is the problem, they have been douped like the vast majority of America, they fail to see that whats best for you is actually whats killing our race and nation as we speak, conformatity and professor priesthood. College is very expensive and to think your time will me wasted being subjected to worped, leftist hog wash. My advise to you is this, on a bright sunny say to them hey it looks like rain today, when its dark outside complain to them how the sun is hurting your eyes, they will look at you like you nuts. When they ask what the hell is wrong with you tell then this, I cannot sit idlily by while the professor priesthood tries to convince me how my white skin makes me evil and racist and that nothing good every resulted from my race. I do not want to explain to some asshole on a test why my white skin enslaves women, blacks and I should be ashamed. College today is a huge ripoff, Ivy league students flunk simple tests on real history today, ask them if they would pay you thousands of dollars to have you convince then the sky is cloudy on a sunny day.
#2 by Shari on 10/17/2006 - 2:39 pm
Not Spam
I think that it is sooo ridiculous that the young finally can leave school, after high school, but have so few options open to them. A lot would be better off waiting a bit, to know what they want as far as college goes, and lot would be fine never going to college. But they aren’t free, and there is no work, especially for young men. And, in the case of our four, they got out of high school, and had to immediately go into debt, which, of course, they still have. They also had to cycle in and out for several years, which they didn’t want either. Who would at that age? I think that it has gotten unusually hard for the young, no matter what. I’m sure that his parents just feel that college is a MUST, if he is to have a future.
#3 by Dave on 10/17/2006 - 5:06 pm
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Rest assured your instincts are correct. Real education is about learning to exercise personal power and autonomy (learning how to achieve freedom). It has nothing to do with college or professors. It has to do with street smarts and street smarts is about navigating the “plays” of predators and their endless contagions of lies.
Mommy professor has one goal and one goal alone: To get your money. IT’S ABOUT THE MONEY. NEVER FORGET THAT.
For example, student loan programs are a system of predation and enslavement. Legally, these loans are not dischargable in bankruptcy or UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WHATSOEVER. THEY WILL FOLLOW YOU TO THE GRAVE. They are the most onerous forms of debt in existence IN THE WORLD.
They have the very same status to you as a student, as the slave mortgage had to the slave back in the days of slavery.
A slave could always purchase his freedom if he came up with the money to discharge the purchase money mortgage that indentured him to his master. However, he had NO OTHER LEGAL MEANS to discharge his debt OTHER THAN TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY PLUS INTEREST, EXACTLY THE SAME AS STUDENT LOANS.
When Congress eliminated all limitations on the collection of student loans (something forbidden throughout history regarding loans in general in all non-slave societies), and mandated that they cannot be discharged in bankruptcy under any circumstance, CONGRESS IN FACT REINSTITUTED SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA.
That was at the request of Mommy Professor.
WAKE UP! YOU ARE LIVING IN A SLAVE SOCIETY!!!
YOUR TASK IS TO LEARN HOW TO EXCERCISE PERSONAL POWER AND AUTONOMY.
Therefore, set for yourself the goal of obtaining credentials without having to pay for them. Learn how to attend school while having the school or an employer PAY YOU.
The market place values people (the value of their labor) by their ability to exercise personal power and autonomy. College credentials or other professional credentials are just a red-tape hurdle.
Look at your own intelligence. You are following this blog. You intelligence must be outstanding.
You are ruined in any event if you do not know how to exercise personal power and autonomy. Face the issue up front at 18. Do not get dragged into years of irrelevancy and debt.
BECOME A PLAYER TODAY. How? Tune yourself up to the street.
Since I am a financial professional, I’ll give you some examples in the financial arena:
For example, why do business students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend business schools?
If you are interested in learning corporate finance, join the New York Society of Security Analysts and attend their professional education courses. Just go to New York and hustle yourself a job with one of the Manhattan investment banks as an entry-level securities analyst and ask your employer to fund your credentials.
It would be hard, but do you have any idea how impressed certain investment bank officials would be with an 18 year old that would attempt to pull that off?
NO COLLEGE REQUIRED.
Or in the alternative, go to Chicago and hustle yourself an apprenticeship as a scalper in the futures pits. Everybody who works those pits never went to college and all of them are rich. Or do the same thing at COMEX in Manhattan.
NO COLLEGE REQUIRED.
Or join the International Private Bankers Association and spend your tuition money attending their annual shindig in Geneva, Switzerland. They manage the wealth of the wealthiest families on earth.
Can you imagine how impressed they would be with an 18 year old that had the balls to do that?
Think of the contacts you would make.
NO COLLEGE REQUIRED
Now I know that the above may sound crazy to you, but I am just giving you examples of exercising street smarts and personal power and autonomy.
For example, if you just want to get toughened and tuned up, get yourself a nice handgun and join a gang. Never let go of your weapon and tune yourself up on the cunning, brutality, and criminality side of things. That’s a quick education in “real politics”. But keep in mind that you may not survive it.
Now I am not recommending that, but it is just an alternative road of learning to exercise personal power and autonomy if you don’t care about moral issues.
You cannot learn personal power and autonomy by “not doing”. Learning to exercise personal power and autonomy is the same as learning to surf. You have to keep getting up on that damn surfboard out in the ocean surf and doing it.
Mommy professor will never teach you personal power and autonomy. Her job is to steal that from you. Never forget that.
AND BY THE WAY, BOB WHITAKER IS A REAL RADICAL. “WHY JOHNNY CAN’T THINK” IS THE MOST RADICAL BOOK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA IN 100 YEARS. BELIEVE IT.
#4 by Tim on 10/17/2006 - 6:55 pm
If I had known what I know now. I would have went to Russia or the Ukraine and gotten my degree over there. The schools are better, way less expensive, and REAL Western Style Education. There is no affirmative action over there and if you can make it into med school…..u can go! There are ‘fewer’ mommy professors over there ….no political correctness or not much to speak of. That is just my two cents. I did not have this blog or anything else when I started school. IF I had known about David Dukes college advice—-I would have taken it and went overseas to be educated in the Ukraine or Moscow or somewhere like that. Just my 2 cents. But with the costs of college these days. You may want to spend a few hundred on plain tickets first.
#5 by Elizabeth on 10/17/2006 - 8:02 pm
Or you could go to his local public community college — some places, these are called “techs” — and get training to _do_ something both useful and profitable, like fixing things.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find someone who can _fix_ cars, can _fix_ _any_ machinery?
Fix electrical systems? It doesn’t need to be computers — just ask around your neighborhood about getting a reliable plumber, a reliable electrician, a reliable auto mechanic? (Ask the ladies. The fellows usually have to _prove_ they can do their own work.)
People with a four year degree are in _so_ much oversupply…I’ve been one for nearly 30 years…
#6 by Sam on 10/17/2006 - 9:09 pm
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Bob,
When you told us about Teddy Roosevelt my first and only reaction was “lucky bastard”.
You nailed part of what I fear. I rarely ever smile, there’s just no reason to. So people ask me why I’m so quiet, I laugh and tell them “I’m letting people think I’m intelligent rather than proving the opposite.” So yes, I’m horrified of letting my myself and my parents down, and proving myself a dunce.
BUT, there is more. Like you there is the professors, the real world, and believe me I don’t know how to deliver a compliment any better than this, but I’ve done the best learning RIGHT HERE on this blog.
#7 by Sam on 10/18/2006 - 10:03 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Tim,
Do they speak english? and How hard is it to get into the college?
#8 by Alan B. on 10/18/2006 - 12:58 pm
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
A two year tech school could be the option for you, here you can attain a trade skill as an electrician etc. Few people would believe that its possible to make 50 to 70 thousand a year with over time and the demand is great. There are thousands of liberal arts student working for Wal-mart who spent thousands and came away in debt and learned to chat slogans and worship words.
#9 by Free Man in the Morning on 10/18/2006 - 5:32 pm
Thanks to Dave for a GREAT and inspiring response re: alternatives to college. It’s a disgrace that this country, and the West in general, gives such disrespect to “menial” labor and vocations — and it shows in our general economic decline, mass importation of illegal immigrants to do jobs “American’s won’t do” (BS!), and why it’s almost impossible to find products still made in the USA. I have a Master’s degree in English, which I admit I knew all along wouldn’t be of much use in the “real world,” and I struggle month to month looking up the labor gigs on Craigslist (thank God I have no student-slave loans to repay.) I agree with other respondents in regards to trade tech schools and vocational training. There are jobs (carpentry, plumbing, electric, engine repair) that can’t be outsourced and that require hands-on expertise and that can potentially be very rewarding. You can also come to L.A. and learn basic stage or television crafts such as gripping, driving (Teamsters are still a strong union), electric, etc. and be able to get work without anyone even asking about a college degree. The fetish we have made of college is a sick joke, though it’s in the vested interest of the bureaucracy to keep it going.
#10 by Tim on 10/18/2006 - 8:39 pm
“Tim,
Do they speak english? and How hard is it to get into the college?
”
Mostly yes, you are white and over there that is what will count. Get in touch with Mr Whitaker. Send him an email and ask him for the best way to ask Dr David Duke about the best Ukraine and Russian Universities (you can probably email Dr Duke directly but I don’t know the best way to go about it—I would ask BOB and then try David Dukes website). Dr Duke teaches over there and he would know the best Universities or at least were you may fit in best and the requirements. Don’t be afraid to ask. That is what these older cats like BW are for. Ask for advice and they WILL give it.
Second, no matter what kind of skill you get learn other technical skill. For instance, Linux Systems engineering and computer work is Universal. Every White country needs computer skilled people. Many White countries are trying to attract white computer people (with the exception of America!). You can get a certification for a computer skill like Linux without having a degree in that area or any degree at all (although to get a computer job you generally need a degree in something and a global certification).
Lastly, I would say if you do not want to go to college at all and still want a Universal skill set in demand all over the world. Go to school to be a Global Ceritified Mercedes Benz Mechanic. You can do that here and work any where in the World. Highly technical and they are in HUGE demand all over the planet. Mercedes is the widest distributed car and truck on earth. You can get a job fresh out and make good money.
#11 by Alan B. on 10/19/2006 - 12:38 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
There is little choice left in America, we are all victims whether we attended the goverment public schools, universities or the military, they seem to have a means to get at us with there control mentality.
#12 by Anonymous on 10/19/2006 - 10:26 pm
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Thank you Tim!