Flanders
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After 18 years of posting messages on the topic of government priests Micheal Walsh hit the target with a different arrow than the ones in my quiver:
Schools for Government are nothing more than Socialist seminaries. The same can be said of journalism schools. Such schools do not teach their novices how to work for less government control over the private sector citizen; nobody has to go to college to learn how to do that.
My dream has always been to see every religion driven away from the public trough. A good place to begin would be to stop funding schools teaching novitiates how to increase the Socialist religion’s control over society.
Either drive every religion away from the public trough, or let them all in. Let the Supreme Deity religions fight Government religion each other for tax dollars. There is no other way for freedom to survive.
For all practical purposes, taxpayers funding schools for government train bureaucrats to be successful Socialist/Communist parasites. Professors in those schools for government are a pack of Fagans teaching artful dodgers how to pick the public’s pockets. No institution of higher learning teaches its students how to reduce the size of government.
NOTE: Teachers began their long march in 1857. (Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 9 years earlier).
A master’s degree in Leechism does not come with a guarantee of productivity. If the number of college graduates who cannot find an unnecessary parasite job in government increases the primary reason for many who go to college is diminished; thereby, reducing the education industry’s claim on tax dollars for higher education. I am not sure if that is a vicious cycle, or is one hand washing the other.
Charities that may not be charities. Money voluntarily donated to legitimate medical charities, children oriented charities, and so on is acceptable to most people. Not so with education charities. A close look at those institutions and I think you will see that they are more political than they are charitable. There is also a crossover on this one. Supreme Deity religions run schools. It is obvious that specific religious beliefs are promoted in religious schools. That’s not a problem so long as the contributions are voluntary; whereas, funding schools for government with tax dollars is involuntary.
A Socialist education rewards ambition in later life. A successful career in government is an acceptable substitute for achievement to a Socialist graduate of such schools.
One of the worst ideas in American history has been the establishment of schools of government and the professionalization of the Washington press corps. Both are intellectual artifacts of the Progressive Era, monuments to the notion that democracy is too messy to be left in the hands of the people, and that therefore the government and its putative watchdogs should be administered for the public good by a priest class of wise men, schooled like the mandarins of ancient China, in the intricate arts and ways of the imperial capital.
Like all the crackpot schemes of the Progressives, this one was grounded in “scientific” principles, much as economic Marxism had been a few decades earlier. There was a right way to organize human affairs—which could be codified, studied, and interpreted, much like a religion—and a wrong way. The wrong way had been that of the 19th-century, with its succession of Great Men, describing an arc from Napoleon to the outbreak of the Great War. And look where that had got us. Far better to build on the example of the civil service system, which had begun in 1883—if we could professionalize clerks, why not grand pooh-bahs as well?
Like all the crackpot schemes of the Progressives, this one was grounded in “scientific” principles, much as economic Marxism had been a few decades earlier. There was a right way to organize human affairs—which could be codified, studied, and interpreted, much like a religion—and a wrong way. The wrong way had been that of the 19th-century, with its succession of Great Men, describing an arc from Napoleon to the outbreak of the Great War. And look where that had got us. Far better to build on the example of the civil service system, which had begun in 1883—if we could professionalize clerks, why not grand pooh-bahs as well?
Great Men, Black Swans, and the End of the Mandarins
By Michael Walsh| May 17th, 2018
https://amgreatness.com/2018/05/17/great-men-black-swans-and-the-end-of-the-mandarins/
By Michael Walsh| May 17th, 2018
https://amgreatness.com/2018/05/17/great-men-black-swans-and-the-end-of-the-mandarins/
Schools for Government are nothing more than Socialist seminaries. The same can be said of journalism schools. Such schools do not teach their novices how to work for less government control over the private sector citizen; nobody has to go to college to learn how to do that.
My dream has always been to see every religion driven away from the public trough. A good place to begin would be to stop funding schools teaching novitiates how to increase the Socialist religion’s control over society.
Either drive every religion away from the public trough, or let them all in. Let the Supreme Deity religions fight Government religion each other for tax dollars. There is no other way for freedom to survive.
For all practical purposes, taxpayers funding schools for government train bureaucrats to be successful Socialist/Communist parasites. Professors in those schools for government are a pack of Fagans teaching artful dodgers how to pick the public’s pockets. No institution of higher learning teaches its students how to reduce the size of government.
NOTE: Teachers began their long march in 1857. (Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 9 years earlier).
A master’s degree in Leechism does not come with a guarantee of productivity. If the number of college graduates who cannot find an unnecessary parasite job in government increases the primary reason for many who go to college is diminished; thereby, reducing the education industry’s claim on tax dollars for higher education. I am not sure if that is a vicious cycle, or is one hand washing the other.
Charities that may not be charities. Money voluntarily donated to legitimate medical charities, children oriented charities, and so on is acceptable to most people. Not so with education charities. A close look at those institutions and I think you will see that they are more political than they are charitable. There is also a crossover on this one. Supreme Deity religions run schools. It is obvious that specific religious beliefs are promoted in religious schools. That’s not a problem so long as the contributions are voluntary; whereas, funding schools for government with tax dollars is involuntary.
A Socialist education rewards ambition in later life. A successful career in government is an acceptable substitute for achievement to a Socialist graduate of such schools.
