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If the people in your family or peer group are NOT happy and living a life you would
like to lead, their life advice should be considered cautiously.
#2) EDUCATION: GET IN LINE, RAISE YOUR HAND, FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
If friends and family are a 
SCRIPTED
vise, education is the crank. As the
crank screws tighter, so does the 
SCRIPT’s
mental machinery. The truth is, 
we’re
being indoctrinated, not educated.
As soon as you’re old enough to hold a crayon, you’re taught that “work” or
“things I’d rather not do” start Monday and end Friday, while “play” is reserved

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for the weekend. By the time you graduate from college, you’ll suffer through 650
weeks in seventeen consecutive years of Monday-through-Friday conditioning, a
regimen accounting for nearly 100 percent of your sentient life, in which it’s
clear: for each of the next 2,600 weeks of your life (fifty years), you must
surrender five days into the system, while two are for you. Good deal?
Next, the educational system conditions you to accept an authoritative
structure requiring permission: At 8:00 a.m., you need to be in homeroom; math
is at nine and gym at ten. Eat lunch at noon. Ask permission to piss. Do as you’re
told, stay in a single-file line, and don’t talk unless asked. At work, you do the
same. You follow instructions. Do as you’re told. Unplanned absences are
frowned upon. Any weekday freedom requires permission: personal days,
vacations, or an early recess to watch your kid’s baseball game.
In high school and throughout college, the 
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worldview targets its
primary nemesis: 
critical thinking
. Instead of exposing our kids to free thought,
educational institutions are now full-fledged indoctrination camps pushing
ideological agendas from ideological administrators. Critical thinking is being
systematically destroyed where two opposing viewpoints are no longer debated.
Instead, students are blustered with opinions and partisan doctrine presented as
facts or established rules of normalcy.
For instance, in 2014, a Connecticut high school blocked Internet access to
conservative websites, such as the National Rifle Association, 
Christianity.com
,
and the National Right to Life. The message? You cannot think for yourself; we
will think for you. I’m not advocating Jesus or guns—I’m advocating critical
thinking and the freedom to examine both sides 
so you can decide for yourself.
When issues are presented through a 
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firewall, no matter if it’s a
domineering Catholic nun with a wooden stick or a Marxist professor wearing
an ugly sweater vest, critical thinking is conveniently destroyed. And guess what?
The 
SCRIPT
doesn’t want you thinking critically.
Educational propagandists and their thought police, however, are not limited
to just state-run institutions—they could be private or theological. Regardless,
the war for your child’s mind has no safe harbor. Statistics reveal a whopping 72
percent of American colleges and their faculty promote a state-centric
collectivism (over individualism) while stifling divergent thought.
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The
university system, once an intellectual crossroad for ideas, is now the largest
confirmation bias on the planet, where mass cast opinions are sheathed in “safe
spaces” as undebatable truths.
Another 
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failing is failure itself.

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In school, failure is a bad thing. Marked by a bloody F and a parental
beatdown, failure is admonished. Fail and you’re grounded! No TV, no iPad! Is it
any shock that straight-A students make great employees while the C-students
are the guys hiring them? The A-students do as they’re told, follow rules
unquestioningly and stay within the lines. Meanwhile, C-student and future
billionaire Johnny is a ninth grader’s newest BFF—he’s underneath the bleachers
selling his older brother’s 
Playboys
at twenty-five dollars a pop.
Education’s final nail in the 
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OS is a disturbing ethos of
victimology and the normalization of averageness, as if these things were virtues.
Competitive drive is being suppressed and gagged. Our public schools (and some
parents) are grooming our kids to be a dithering, over-medicated and over-
coddled band of wimps who throw tantrums when their sippy cups go empty.
Today, we protect feelings. We praise when no praise was earned. Because you
simply exist, you are entitled. And if you’re not granted entitlement, you’re a
victim. Firm discipline (where’s that Catholic nun with the stick when you need
her?) has been replaced by “time out” and flowery negotiations.
For example, this is an actual letter sent home with students from a Michigan
elementary school, a preemptive warning that your child’s competitive drive
must be stifled and, of course, his or her feelings protected:
The purpose of the day is for our school to get together for an enjoyable two
hours of activities and provide an opportunity for students, teachers and parents
to interact cooperatively. Since we believe that all of our children are winners, the
need for athletic ability and the competitive “urge to win” will be kept to a
minimum. The real reward will be the enjoyment and good feelings of