Dumbing down a population

       There are many implications if you believe we are dumbing down our populations' education. Said another way, the public education boards and people  we elect to them have as much effect on our lives as the federal presidential elections. And they do receive money from taxes we all pay, too.

            What prompted this post is the threat, idea if you will, that the monitoring of the population is supposedly beginning to occur, probably for some good reasons. That's one implication of the dumbing down idea. And those doing the monitoring have been dumbed down, too. That's another implication, too. And at home moms and dads may have been dumbed down, too. That has another set of implications. And how about all this high tech gear the military uses? That has its own set of implications.

            The reader probably gets my theme. Education, like even just the 3R's is important to our way of life, like our form of governance. For example, when educated people, even educated at the most basic level, sense a leader is something like a con man, then they might react differently, like at least use their brains, intuition, morals, and education to make the best decisions they can. Even moms and dads will make better decisions for them and their kids' futures if they have more arrows in their quiver. That's the benefits of education at the most basic level. Nobody seeks being a serf, or condemning their kids to being serfs, I think.

            So what is education?  Well that's a school board decision and your decision where you live. Plus moms and dads and their votes count, too. But to me, there are only so many hours and days we can devote to public education, and I sure hope it goes more to basic education and less to indoctrination in whatever school boards choose to do. As a rule, we humans do best when educated vice indoctrinated.

            Anyway, dumbing down a population has implications, and it sure looks like we're getting to live with the implications today.

            And if you buy this argument, then it has probably taken us decades to get to this point, and it will probably take decades to reverse it. But one does have to start somewhere and sometime, and why not now?