by Steven David Horwich
Where does socialization fit into this dehumanizing scheme? Well, a “socialized” nation is a peaceful one – and peace is a good environment for business to grow in. After all, most big business is now international, and sometimes, war can cut into profits (depending upon one’s business model).
A well-socialized individual is more likely to play well in the sandbox with his fellow employees. He’s more likely to obey the laws of the land, which have all been carefully explained to him as necessary for our co-survival – even though there are well over one hundred thousand laws on the California books, as a single example of insane over-legislation. Police appreciate tractable people – they make the job of the policeman far easier. Of course, policemen have been carefully trained to follow orders, too.
They want your Little Johnny to play nice with others. They want your child to be tractable. He does not need to be overly capable, and certainly creativity should be frowned upon.
This is why one the psychologist’s favorite ruses is the idea that creative people are “generally mad” to some degree. One must be “mad” to be creative. Poor mad Mozart and Bach and Shakespeare, all mad mad mad. Have you bought into that lurid and disgusting lie? I hope not. And remember who psychiatry works for – drug companies and big industry including public education. They go where the money is, and they say whatever they need to say to get some of that money.
Education today, particularly education that is funded or controlled by government, serves the needs of big business. Big business, which pays much of the hefty campaign costs of most politicians, enjoys the benefits of this arrangement enormously. A “socialized” individual who has been carefully groomed to do as he is told and buy as he is told, and who is prepared to meekly get along with others, is precisely the result business demands from education. It’s good for business. It may not be good for you, for your child, or for the nation, but well, the bottom line is the bottom line, and as some true and dangerous idiots have recently declared, “corporations are people”.
And yet…nearly all new ideas that have moved civilization forward came from individuals who, to put it gently, just weren’t all that well indoctrinated into socialization. They didn’t get along with others all that well, more often than not. From Buddha to Christ to Martin Luther, Pericles to Caesar to Elizabeth I, Galileo to Ben Franklin to Edison, we all as a society stand on the shoulders of some pretty “unsocial” people.
Who started the American Revolution and formed the great American Republic? Um…a number of (homeschooled) men who simply refused to “go along”, at great peril to themselves and their family. Gandhi freed India from the mightiest empire of all time, the British Empire – through an approach he developed called “non-cooperation”. Let it be understood that without the many people throughout history who struck out on their own in directions frowned on mightily by those around them, we simply would have a barbarian and primitive global culture.
Getting along is not all that it’s cracked up to be, not when it’s chronic and unthinking. One should have full control over his own decision-making process. One should always decide for himself when and why one will “get along”, and when and why one will not.
What else did Mr. Cooley believe in? Well, he thought that conditions or times of chaos were good things. He believed that they triggered creativity…but only of the sort that would allow individuals to newly adapt to the existing civilization. Because remember, individual creativity was anathema to Cooley.
I truly pity his children.
So, “socialization” starts with the man who coined the term and invented the idea that we should each be “socialized”. We should each “fit in” to the culture. We should each of us abjure creative or original notions and simply belong. Creativity of an individual sort is neither called for nor desired. We each belong to a class or caste, and that’s where we should stay. We should all learn to “get along”, taught (restricted and legislated) by the society to which we “belong” (read “are owned by”).
And this is the thing schools say you’re child MUST have, or he’ll be “ill-adjusted”? This is the argument made in favor of public schooling, and opposing homeschooling.
What are the results of “socialization?” More to come.
Steven Horwich is an Emmy and Dramalogue award-winning writer/director, who has split his life between the arts and education. A teacher with over 35 years and over 20,000 hours of experience from elementary school through university-level teaching, he started homeschooling his own children in 2002. This led him to author over 300 courses since 2002, a complete curricula (excluding math) for ages 5-adult, called Connect The Thoughts. Over 20,000 people have used CTT since making it available via the Internet in 2007. His curricula is presented at www.connectthethoughts.com. There is over 5 hours of film explaining his courses and approach. He has authored a book about education today, Poor Cheated Little Johnny, and a teacher training program to go with it. He currently presents a free webinar about education and homeschooling every third Tuesday.
Where does socialization fit into this dehumanizing scheme? Well, a “socialized” nation is a peaceful one – and peace is a good environment for business to grow in. After all, most big business is now international, and sometimes, war can cut into profits (depending upon one’s business model).
A well-socialized individual is more likely to play well in the sandbox with his fellow employees. He’s more likely to obey the laws of the land, which have all been carefully explained to him as necessary for our co-survival – even though there are well over one hundred thousand laws on the California books, as a single example of insane over-legislation. Police appreciate tractable people – they make the job of the policeman far easier. Of course, policemen have been carefully trained to follow orders, too.
They want your Little Johnny to play nice with others. They want your child to be tractable. He does not need to be overly capable, and certainly creativity should be frowned upon.
This is why one the psychologist’s favorite ruses is the idea that creative people are “generally mad” to some degree. One must be “mad” to be creative. Poor mad Mozart and Bach and Shakespeare, all mad mad mad. Have you bought into that lurid and disgusting lie? I hope not. And remember who psychiatry works for – drug companies and big industry including public education. They go where the money is, and they say whatever they need to say to get some of that money.
Education today, particularly education that is funded or controlled by government, serves the needs of big business. Big business, which pays much of the hefty campaign costs of most politicians, enjoys the benefits of this arrangement enormously. A “socialized” individual who has been carefully groomed to do as he is told and buy as he is told, and who is prepared to meekly get along with others, is precisely the result business demands from education. It’s good for business. It may not be good for you, for your child, or for the nation, but well, the bottom line is the bottom line, and as some true and dangerous idiots have recently declared, “corporations are people”.
And yet…nearly all new ideas that have moved civilization forward came from individuals who, to put it gently, just weren’t all that well indoctrinated into socialization. They didn’t get along with others all that well, more often than not. From Buddha to Christ to Martin Luther, Pericles to Caesar to Elizabeth I, Galileo to Ben Franklin to Edison, we all as a society stand on the shoulders of some pretty “unsocial” people.
Who started the American Revolution and formed the great American Republic? Um…a number of (homeschooled) men who simply refused to “go along”, at great peril to themselves and their family. Gandhi freed India from the mightiest empire of all time, the British Empire – through an approach he developed called “non-cooperation”. Let it be understood that without the many people throughout history who struck out on their own in directions frowned on mightily by those around them, we simply would have a barbarian and primitive global culture.
Getting along is not all that it’s cracked up to be, not when it’s chronic and unthinking. One should have full control over his own decision-making process. One should always decide for himself when and why one will “get along”, and when and why one will not.
What else did Mr. Cooley believe in? Well, he thought that conditions or times of chaos were good things. He believed that they triggered creativity…but only of the sort that would allow individuals to newly adapt to the existing civilization. Because remember, individual creativity was anathema to Cooley.
I truly pity his children.
So, “socialization” starts with the man who coined the term and invented the idea that we should each be “socialized”. We should each “fit in” to the culture. We should each of us abjure creative or original notions and simply belong. Creativity of an individual sort is neither called for nor desired. We each belong to a class or caste, and that’s where we should stay. We should all learn to “get along”, taught (restricted and legislated) by the society to which we “belong” (read “are owned by”).
And this is the thing schools say you’re child MUST have, or he’ll be “ill-adjusted”? This is the argument made in favor of public schooling, and opposing homeschooling.
What are the results of “socialization?” More to come.
Steven Horwich is an Emmy and Dramalogue award-winning writer/director, who has split his life between the arts and education. A teacher with over 35 years and over 20,000 hours of experience from elementary school through university-level teaching, he started homeschooling his own children in 2002. This led him to author over 300 courses since 2002, a complete curricula (excluding math) for ages 5-adult, called Connect The Thoughts. Over 20,000 people have used CTT since making it available via the Internet in 2007. His curricula is presented at www.connectthethoughts.com. There is over 5 hours of film explaining his courses and approach. He has authored a book about education today, Poor Cheated Little Johnny, and a teacher training program to go with it. He currently presents a free webinar about education and homeschooling every third Tuesday.
