These last few days were pushing the truth into my face
again: education does not change the world. In fact: it helps destroying it. So
why bother? Why do I put so much time and effort in researching education?
It is not about Israël, it could just as easily be North
Korea, China, Zimbabwe, waffles baking Belgium, … or the tiny country of Andorra
for all I care. It is any region empowered by the educated that decides ‘the
other’ should be destroyed (read murdered under a false flag of well-meant excuses). It is never about a nation or patriotism, those are
just words used by the educated to feed propaganda, the media and lead up to destructive
action. The nations never die, its citizens die, the children die. The
powerful, educated few that decide they will bombard innocent people … they
live. They are educated in surviving, constructing mind weaves to make them and
others think violence is permitted, they understand how to fire guns pointed away from their homes.
Universal rights are simple: you kill someone on purpose => you are a murderer and should be trialed.
Annihilating the powerless is the best way to keep people
down. Annihilating the powerless and educating the thinking. Give those that
have some intelligence something to do. Give them the illusion their education
will make the world a better place. It will never do it. Power is not in
education, power is in the elite network, the willingness to be part of the
network, the willingness to engage in destruction to keep power to those
already in it: “for that is how it should be. We know what is best for them”.
Palestinians are educated people, israëlis are moslims too,
jews struggle for peace and all of us suffer from death and destruction. Killing
someone makes anyone a murderer, even if they do it from 10 miles further down the road. That
is basic knowledge we all know. But it does not matter that we know it. There
is no world for the peaceful, for the balanced, for indigenous people, for any
of us just wanting to live in harmony.
Delivering primary education to all?! I think not. Reaching
the millennium goals is a nice sounding motto. Something to keep many of us
busy, working, researching. But unless the few really want to achieve it, it
never happens. And it does not happen. We could. Social science has many
frameworks, theories, even pilot studies to prove its potential realization.
But it does not happen. Because rebuilding cities, rolling out roads for tanks,
pumping fuel from the core of the earth to regions consuming it in a rush to go
to work, to professions that put all of us between brick walls for the biggest
part of our day, for workers hurrying of to any space that is not their family
so they do not have to talk to their fellow man/woman, even if those are their
partners, their next of kin, their spouse. Let alone make them think about easy
dilemma’s that might make a change.
What gets us on the streets? I don’t know. But I can tell
you what does not get all of us walking the pavements, hammering on doors of
our so called democratic elected leaders: technologically strong, educated armies blowing children to oblivion.
Education is manipulated and misused. Maybe it is just there to keep us busy, to keep me busy. But for the life of me
I cannot come up with anything else to try and change this world and hope that
at some point we will find a cure for mindless aggression in name of the
father, the nation, the god… or any of those iconic lies.
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