EDUCATIONAL PROTESTS

Are student protests a type of liberal arts education that has manifested in response to our current capitalistic Establishment educational conglomeration?

https://www.aol.com/columbia-protesters-seize-building-anti-122554246.html— Police dismantled an encampment and dispersed protesters at the University of Utah late Monday after a rally that drew more than 300 people outside an administration building at the campus in Salt Lake City. Officers removed and dismantled about a dozen tents, stashes of water bottles, food and toilet paper as some protesters took down their own tents and drove away, the school said in a statement.

“Utah college campuses around the state are not exempt from the significant unrest that currently exists in our country and world,” said Keith Squires, the school’s chief safety officer. “Campuses serve as a stage and forum for not just students, but for members of the community who want their voice to be heard. We honor all voices, but the right to speech on our campus must occur within the confines of state law and campus policies.”

The student protesters opposed to Israel’s military attacks in Gaza say they want their schools to stop funneling endowment money to Israeli companies and other businesses, like weapons manufacturers, that profit from the war in Gaza. In addition to divestment, protesters are calling for a cease-fire, and student governments at some colleges have also passed resolutions in recent weeks calling for an end to academic partnerships with Israel. The protesters also want the U.S. to stop supplying funding and weapons to the war effort.

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C-Span is hosting this morning, a discussion about a history of student protests.  This topic is near and dear, having been cognizant during the ’60’s movements such as Women’s Liberation (to use a phrase denigrated by patriarchy) and the anti-war movements.  Both have been buried as American history, into the annals of disrepute, by capitalistic hierarchical Establishment.  The reason is that the patriarchy of this Establishment is deeply offensive to the capitalists who cannot as fabulously profit with success from either.

(Curiously and disappointingly the C-Span discussion about the history of student protests was not aired.  Shadows of the censorship of the human rights and anti-war protests of the ’60’s?)

Since the ’60’s, our educational system has become an institutionalized indoctrination machine to transform perfectly normal human children into capitalistic robots for service to this Establishment.

Education back in the day included liberal arts that focused on human pursuits.  This is no longer sanctioned in our overly-exploiting “institutions of higher learning” from which perfectly normal human children graduate holding worthless degrees of higher learning that don’t actually promote or provide ability to earn a respectable living, but do endow such now-grown students with incredible presumption of superiority and hubris.

The recent inculcation of largely Palestinian protesters intermingled with conscientiously cognitive “others”, is suggestive of the diversity representative of those not totally indoctrinated by “Western Values”.  This may be suggestive also of the Palestinian value of owning the highest literacy rate among functional societies.  We are indeed blessed with diversity.  It may be our saving angel.

But as to education, inadvertently our “institutions of higher learning” are providing an excellent education by revealing our dictatorial-style of Establishment hierarchy.  “Running government like a business” has come full circle to organized crime, including armed “enforcers for hierarchy.

This is the much required and long suppressed education that has been denied to American students for far too long.  Inadvertently our “institutions of higher learning” are providing an education for students that has been denied for far too long, to be replaced by a system of indoctrination into capitalism.

Yesterday I heard an “expert” of some sort speak of our “capitalistic democracy”.  Okay, expert, that is an oxymoron.  Capitalism is specifically and with laser-like focus, about a Pyramid Scheme which is hierarchical.  Democracy is specifically about Free Speech and equality, not to mention justice.  Please stop the lying and mis-labeling.  A capitalistic hierarchical Military Establishment example is calling a the regions of war as a “theater”, and calling murder of citizens “collateral damage”.  This could also legitimately be included in an honest educational system.