If the school system here in Florida still permits it , or if it ever has , our youth may come to learn in their new and improved social study courses who was Nelson Mandela and perhaps be privy to his famous quote .
” Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world .”
So said Nelson Mandela years after serving 18 years for his anti apartheid beliefs in South Africa . That’s interesting to me as my country , the United States , is supposedly ranked # 1 in education throughout the world . Yet for all that education no other nation on earth seems to try as hard to regress , no other nation puts as much effort into becoming … ignorant.
I’m baffled by the beliefs we’ve come to so easily and quickly accept as truth regardless of how far fetched they are, or how well educated we might be . A discussion with someone I know today just drove this home all the more. Wikipedia will give a list of hundreds of conspiracy theories with well over 100 fairly recent politically motivated ones alone. Let’s see…. here’s a fine example… avoid a vaccine as it might be a government tool to implant micro chips so they can keep tabs on us . It had had a quite few believers
Like most conspiracy theories this one just kept on snowballing until half of us believed Dr. Fauci tortures beagles ….
Q Anon is a particular favorite “theory” of mine and it’s right up there with the “peaceful” protest at the Capitol on January 6 that was obviously instigated by Antifa hoods and the FBI . In addition if they weren’t Antifa or FBI then they were American tax payers who had every right to be there…. even if it required smashing doors an windows .
Q Anon originates from the “belief” that the Democrats were operating a Satan worshiping , cannibalistic child sex ring out of a pizza shop in DC …. and that one kept snowballing too like all these theories tend to do . Especially since we have elected members of government that buy into this and are educated enough to spread the word.
On Nov. 2, 2021 hundreds of people gathered in Dallas to witness the 12:29 p.m. arrival of John Kennedy Jr. even though he’d been dead 20 plus years . Seems there are those that don’t believe he ever died and he was going to come out of hiding to be made President after the big parade through Dealy Plaza . {General Mike Flynn was to become Vice President during this} After many hours of no show a woman was interviewed at the site and asked about his non appearance and she referenced …. faith … even if you couldn’t see it.
” No matter what, I think the majority of us know that something is happening. We can feel it!” she said ,
I’m thinking something was happening all right…. hundreds of people were duped into traveling long distances to stand for hours in the pouring rain to witness the arrival of a dead man so he could become President . And they were duped because they are stupid… and ignorant .
” Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world .”
Mr. Mandela , Sir you didn’t specify if it was to change the world for the better or the worse .
I will forever cling to a more simplistic attitude from back when America was great …
The man committed crimes… and the FBI did it’s job … it really is that simple
