I don’t think things will ever improve, to be perfectly honest. I come to sites like Ilana’s for fun and some dose of dry humor. I already agree with the things she says.

The problem is that people in this country don’t understand economics. They are ‘left’ economists, or ‘right’ economists. There is no such as political economics, or really, there shouldn’t be. Economics is just a science about scarcity and how humans deal with it – Human Action.

Half of this country is involved in immoral and nihilistic self gratification and wants the other side to join in the fun. The other half is morally common sense, but hopelessly apologetic for the sorry state of affairs. They praise our healthcare system, which is really ‘soft’ socialism, and become excited over tidbits their conservative masters throw to them in the forms of small tax cuts, and become enraged at Democrats small steps toward the socialist super state that conservatives themselves support, just in a different way. It’s like falling out of a plane without a parachute, and becoming upset because you cut your finger on the door on the way out.

Not to be pessimistic, but both political parties are a total loss to people who enjoy true capitalism, and I don’t see things changing.

I have recently written a couple of mails to some friends using the same theme (Romanticism) as a “regressive/atavistic” force in modernity. (They being of the “liberal” variety, detested my perspective vehemently as “how can you view as progressive an age as Romanticism as a kind of dysfunctionality?”)

There’s another layer to this pathology: Lesser “cultures” have adopted this romantic delusion eagerly, and are now using it to belittle the advances of the West as “evil,” as “against nature,” and what have you.

It fits so perfectly with the losers’ wound-licking rituals, doesn’t it?

1) Schools have become businesses and not merely institutions of learning. Lowering standards for admission allows more people in and more people in means more tuition fees.

2) Teachers are concerned more about their paycheck than doing their job properly. Students are habitually used as pons in campaigns for artificial wage increases. Schools are lax partly because teachers aren’t necessarily interested in having to work at their job. [see ‘The Worm in the Apple’ of American Education & Needed: A Leave the Children Behind Act!]

3) Parents aren’t parenting any longer and this is where the value of education is learned. Maybe if parents were actively involved, schools would be forced to up the ante up on their curriculum standards.

4) Students don’t see school as a place of learning. They see it as a mere stepping stone for better job access and higher paying jobs. I experienced this first hand when talking to students when I was a student myself. Combine this with the factors above and you have a situation where “education” serves a different role than ever before.

When you have illiterates teaching, you can only expect them to produce illiterates. The cycle continues.

[You’re a great parent.]