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Recent Comments
- Loki: Despite my disdain for compulsory military service, IHMO, something akin read more
- The Phantom: I agree with ∞ ≠ ø. (Nice handle, btw.) Helicopter read more
- Osumashi Kinyobe: I agree with the college part of your post but read more
- ∞ ≠ ø: Not a fan of this article. Isn't there a case read more
- Revnant Dream: Human nature being what it is. Thwarting it will only read more
- Occam: The emasculation young males are experiencing in state run institutions read more
- don morris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4 This was summed up in a most entertaining and read more
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Feds Order download for The Liberator (first printable gun) be removed from homepage (Video)
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/05/no-more-liberator-feds-order.html
The feds are clueless. The "Liberator" is such a simple piece of engineering that I am sure that anyone who had the printer to print one could redesign it in a few hours.
No surprises. We live in a feminized society.
The plans are out there people. The Feds are wasting their time and our money chasing this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4
This was summed up in a most entertaining and profane way by George Carlin a few years back.
The emasculation young males are experiencing in state run institutions is all part of the technocratic social engineering of society. Since the 50s authoritarian statists have determined that natural male aggression (the instinct/reflex to protect or defend) must be conditioned out of society as a matter of the planned pacification of the populace.
We see this on a daily basis in the self-depreciating crap kids get at their social indoctrination centers (public school) and the wimpy emasculated roll models pop culture and media promote. It has certainly had an impact. If you have children, it is more important than ever to de-program them daily and provide traditional roll models for them to emulate.
Human nature being what it is. Thwarting it will only cause a bigger backlash.
For leftists this untruth that people are just blank slates always ends p with them facing a firing squad. People are predators , you can never change that with schooling or repressing it. You can only channel it into positive directions. Directions these panty waists deem unfit. By the way drugging a whole generation to stop natural behavior will be the undoing of Socialism eventually.
Not a fan of this article.
Isn't there a case to be made that parents are more protective because they perceive greater threats than were evident in their own childhood (hence the barbed wire)? And isn't it evident that the kids who are out there (by appearances and observed activities) are no good and accurately reflect their parent's (and let's not leave out guardian's)skills?
There is the phenomena of heightened awareness caused by national reporting to be sure, but I would imagine that if kids are safer today it is because there are statistically less of them out there, on their own, unsupervised.
In the schools, parents of kids who have learning issues seek accommodation simply because their children are not separated out, by law. This, I would argue, creates more stress on the child in the classroom, more stress on the parent, and more stress on the teacher. (I have little empathy for the latter as the entire education process is so format driven that there is very little actual learning done anyway. In fact if more stress was placed on learning things rather than perfunctory homework and report formatting the amount of kids with issues would probably drop in half over night).
College? This is what happens in a liberal society once parents are excluded from the picture. Sure, they go wild. There are no longer any normative values out there besides what they get from home. They don't go wild because their away from home. They go wild because they are away from values.
"...alcohol consumption... provides an instant identity; it lets people know that you are willing to belong." Bullshit! Alcohol is a solvent. It removes identity. What is offered, encouraged, commercialized, and praised on the college campuses today is simply decadent behavior, godlessness, nihilism, and anti-establishment behavior. (In short Liberalism shhhhh!)
Grade inflation is a Ponzi scheme. You think you're getting a return on your investment, but, no... no you're not. And when you find out... (I wonder what that's like. When the light-bulb comes on. What is it like to have your 30 year old child return from Occupy Something reeking of one movement or the other, unoccupied and going to his/her/its room?)... And when you find out, it's too late. Does this happen to so called protectionist parents? Or... does it happen to liberal parents?
Yes, free your children. Give them to us now. It takes a village..
Well..... I cry bullshit.
Have to go.... Let's not let them make good parenting look bad. It does take longer to grow up. Society is vastly more complex as well as more dangerous than when we were kids. Most of the complexity has been caused by the deconstruction of norms (cultural evolutionary behaviors) the diminishment of authority and the embrace of nihilism. (redundancy mine) Effing liberals.
I agree with the college part of your post but I have seen kids excused for alleged learning disabilities, slathered with antiseptic gel and kept kilometers away from nuts they are not allergic to. There is the hover nanny state and hover parents. Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum where no one is paying attention. I wonder where the happy medium is.
I agree with ∞ ≠ ø. (Nice handle, btw.) Helicopter parenting is an obvious response to two things. First, the insidious propaganda we are all showered with daily is that the country we live in has become violent and dangerous. What's the right response to that? Guard your kid like a samurai.
Second, CREDENTIALISM. Everybody knows you don't get The Great Job without a 4.0 GPA. That's not wrong, either. Personally lived through getting credentialed as a grown man, and it probably took five years off my life. The stress was -amazing-. Not because the subject matter was hard, not because there was so much to learn. Because you couldn't make a single mistake. A 4.0 GPA gets you enrolled in your next step up the Ivory Tower ladder. A 3.85 gets you a job flipping burgers. The difference is one midterm exam in one course, or one mean teacher, or one case of the flu.
That's why kids drink, why they're stressed, and why they give up and drop out in huge numbers.
The truth is that the country has no places for all these highly trained scholars being churned out by schools. They can only take so many. So the competition for the 4.0 GPA is ferocious and causes a lot of casualties.
As for the parents, they want their kids to be able to get The Job that -they- have. Problem is, a lot of these young professionals have those jobs because were smart, they worked like demons, and because they were -lucky-. They know how smart you have to be, how fast on the draw you have to be, and how much plain old @ss kissing you have to do. So to spare the kid the pain the parents suffered getting to $ucce$$, the parents work the system. They bully, they bribe, they maneuver, they PUSH to get Little Johnny and Janey into the best situation they can.
Duh.
So you take a kid who's been groomed his whole life to get a 4.0 GPA and turn him loose with all the other sharks in the pool, you get the modern university. A f-ed up place where the professors power trip and the students do war on them for marks.
My two cents worth? Home school the kid. Teach the kid to shoot. Teach the kid to -fight- and more important, when to fight and when to run away. Teach the kid math, logic, physics and HISTORY. Teach the kid to weld. Teach him how to get work when there's no work.
Remember friends, if you are the guy who can remove the bolt from the expensive cylinder head you will never starve. You know the bolt I mean. The bolt that broke below the surface, with the EZ-Out snapped off in it.
Despite my disdain for compulsory military service, IHMO, something akin to this is required to deprogram the dysfunctional brats of today. When I see parents, it's always a case of them tellintheir children being superior and, if there are any inconsistencies with this idealism and their academic performance, it must be a medical issue.
My childhood would have been a nightmare for the overcontrolling parents of today as there was no micromanagement of what I did and we just played and had fun. Sure, we did blow things up and experimented with other things that could potentially be fatal, but those of us who survived are well adjusted individualists. I see a huge amount of anxiety disorder among children as well as depression. Looking at their daily schedule where every aspect of their life is mapped out by their parents, no wonder they're depressed.
What kids don't have nowadays is any sense that they're responsible for their own actions and that their actions lead to future outcomes. When every parent assumes the validity of the blank slate model where all it takes is the right schools and proper extracurricular activities to make their budding genius win a nobel prize, they're severely deluded. IQ in kids follows a Gaussian distribution and only a small fraction of kids are going to be scientists. The vast majority are going to become tradesmen which, in the current economy, is a far more financially lucrative position to be in than a university professor in some utterly obscure area.
At some point kids need to be exposed to objective reality and learn through their mistakes. Kids right now are forbidden to make mistakes and thus they don't learn many things which they would have under the anarchic childhood that those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's experienced. One way to expose kids to objective reality is to take them out of the city, dump them in a wilderness environment far away from the nearest cell phone tower, and see how they make out. The lessons they'd learn from such an experience would be far more valuable than anything they've learned in school. Given the incredible lack of fitness in todays kids, a month of boot camp might teach them that they're not the special gifted darlings that they think they are.