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I think it’s the presence of society teaching people to compete against each other, relentlessly, by any means necessary.
We’re born with strong instincts for compassion, sharing, caring and empathy toward others.
Oh I don’t think we’re born with compassion, sharing, caring and empathy to others-at all Billy Babies are the most selfish living things around. It’s not “instinctual” at all. As infants they are no different than one of a litter of puppies who pushes the others away from the mother’s milk.
We humans learn to be “compassion, sharing, caring, and empathy to others-or we don’t ! And if we don’t I’m not going to blame “society”. It starts and ends with parents. I’m not about to blame society on all our human frailties -to me that’s a cynical excuse for behavior and the sign of a person who simply hates the “society” he lives in and finds it to be the origin of all that is wrong including uncaring adults who have no compassion for others.
The real sadness for me is the number of parents who do not -and often cannot-pass on the basic values of compassion toward others-simply because no one passed them on to them. Which brings me back to full circle and my prime concern-that people that should be having children are not and those that should not are. End of story-for me anyway.
She may try to just roll out all kinds of wacko shit like Trump has, and get hung up on the illegality of it which could give people enough time to notice what she is doing, and rally to stop it.
Do you really think people care Zooey? Most-if not all -of my Republican friends think the DOE is just some small agency somewhere. To them the big picture is all about lowering taxes-especially on corporations so we can get on with the economy. And these people are not stupid people-uninformed yes-but not stupid. And of course they have long since had no children. They may have grand kids but their education is simply not on their radar. Depressing.
On a good note: the nominee for SC justice, in response to Trump’s bullying the independence of the judiciary, said it was demoralizing and disheartening, to hear the President’s attack.
One significant issue between the charter school system and public schools is whether or not charter schools are under the federal mandate when it comes to educating children with special needs. The general rule in these matters is that if you accept federal money you must comply with federal laws that govern public schools. However there are many exceptions to that when it comes to charter schools that are primarily based on a religious orientation-notwithstanding federal money. For instance because allegedly many don’t have the resources they have been allowed to farm out students with disabilities to public schools for the sole purpose of providing the necessary related services to allow the child access to a “reasonable” education. So a parent who is raising a child with special needs may not be able to have their child educated in either a charter school or most certainly a strictly private school. And even if the charter school is required to provide “some” related services to a disabled student it certainly is not of the same kind and quality required by IDEA -the federal mandate for public schools. IDEA=Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act)
And our new Secretary of Education knows absolutely nothing about these overlapping issues and worse the Republicans in congress-with the exception of two women-simply don’t care if she does. For a President to come into office on the premise that its the politicians who have messed up our governance-this is about as political as it can get !!
Wikipedia on social “cynicism”:
“Social cynicism results from excessively high expectations concerning society, institutions and authorities: unfulfilled expectations leads to disillusionment, which releases feelings of disappointment and betrayal.[9]
In organizations, cynicism manifests itself as a general or specific attitude, characterized by frustration, hopelessness, disillusionment and distrust in regard to economic or governmental organizations, managers and/or other aspects of work.”
After this election I’m trying my best to avoid being so cynical. However, reading you and Zooey, and your all is lost posts, I’m having a difficult time. One of the hopeful signs I see-at least right now-is a more active role from progressives-primarily young people. Whether this pushes the right further to the right remains to be seen.
“Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. … The third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.IMO the Sanders people will now actually get out and vote”. Let’s all hope so.
Third, we weren’t discussing the marches anyway
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I opened this thread about the marches. I simply added that the women accompanying my wife were all smart and from all sorts of political backgrounds. I don’t recall writing anything about a “war”. Maybe my post wasn’t relevant to your discussions with BT but I thought it was relevant to the subject of the thread I started namely women we know that went to the marches.I guess I don’t understand why the attack by you. Oh well/
