How Do You Explain This?
I received the following response to the establishment-busting three-part series, “How Do You Explain This?” It adds a positive personal touch and fits so well I’m calling it “Part IV.” Wish I’d written it. Thanks, Monongahela Wry – – –
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It [Part III] started me on some ruminations. If your goal is to be thought provoking you succeeded with me at least. So here ya go.
David Farragut was ‘prizemaster’of a captured ship during The War of 1812. He was 11. (Yes, as in eleven years old) at the time. He started his life as a sailor at 9 and eventually became a storied Admiral. The Farragut class of destroyers bears his name. Seems that young David spent very little time in a classroom.
I gave a talk to a boys’ Sunday School class years ago – told em Farragut’s story. Figured I’d mix it up a little. David vs Goliath is great but they’ve heard that one before. Told ’em that being young does not mean that you can’t accomplish great things. Don’t be afraid to step out into bigger shoes. I hope it left an impression on a young mind or two.
As for me, all I wanted at 11 was to be left alone. I actually verbalized that out loud and remember the desire very very clearly.
I too spent summers anywhere but in the house. In the house I was micromanaged and suffocated. Outside was freedom. Autonomy. Self determination was found only in the woods. The only other person my age I’ve met who tells a similar story is Nancy, but there are childhood similarities and we both ended up being slightly ‘ungovernable’ as adults. (Credit to Nancy for voicing the concept of being ungovernable. Her word, I adopted it.)
Carlin once said that government wants people just smart enough to push the right button at the right time. They don’t want people who are actually educated. It seems that a formal education, started young, beats ungovernable free young minds into an easily governable submission. It almost seems like abuse if you really think on it.
We have Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Gov, but also Big Education. People think of Big Ed just as universities with endowments and historical campuse
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