Education
Current education
Thinking cessation
Filled with manipulation
One sided regurgitation
Lying devastation
Mental saturation
The bare minimum to learn
Enough to work and earn
Memorization the churn
Knowledge not the yearn
No good place to turn
Evolution set to burn
Misinformation en masse
Why even go to class
Interactions so crass
Watch your back to save your ass
Consistency very morass
Lower the curve to pass
Teachers wages low truly
To manage the unruly
Or try to stop a bully
Treating everyone cruelly
No parent engaged fully
Everyone acting so coolly
Learning time could be fun
Figuring out how to sum
Know the kinetics of a run
Or the weight of a ton
Not wondering which one
Is carrying a gun
What’s the alternative
Without taking a sedative
Or is it all relative
The problem is so massive
It’s a darn I do give
Figure better ways to live
When I went to school
Felt like such a tool
Shut up, obey the rule
Stop acting like a fool
Don’t shine as a jewel
Be a good government mule
Books say, Lincoln was shot
Leaving out, it was a plot
Conspiracy theorist I’m not
Pertinent information forgot
Making it too simple alot
Part of reality left to rot
Just know what you are told
Be ignorant and yet so bold
Like slaves bought and sold
Don’t break out of the mold
Think how you are controlled
500 channels, you’ve enrolled
Inspired in part by George Carlin
“Dumb Americans”
“Life is worth losing”
“Not too bright, folks. Not too fucking bright. But if you talk to one of them about this, if you isolate one of them, you sit ’em down rationally, you talk to ’em about the low IQ’s and the dumb behavior and the bad decisions; right away they start talking about education.
That’s the big answer to everything: Education. They say, ‘We need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools.
We need more testing for the kids!’ You say to ’em, ‘Well, you know, we’ve tried all that and the kids still can’t pass the tests’.
They say, ‘Aw, don’t you worry about that, we’re gonna lower the passing grades!’ And that’s what they do in a lot of these schools now, they lower the passing grades so more kids can pass.
More kids pass, the school looks good, everybody’s happy; the IQ of the country slips another two or three points and pretty soon, all you’ll need to get into college is a fucking pencil! ‘Gotta pencil? Get the fuck in there, it’s physics!’
Then everyone wonders why 17 other countries graduate more scientists than we do.
Education!
They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don’t want that! You know what they want? They want Obedient Workers – Obedient Workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
