What I find amusing is that people think that the decomposition of the American educational system and the death of the classical education is merely a side effect of other events in our culture, a symptom if you will, rather than an engineered and carefully selected tool to minimize the overtaking of old world masoginistic and tribal ideology with the essence of freedom. You see America stand for everything that evil dictators and tribal warlords hate the world over. At its core, the America envisioned by the founding fathers was one that spread freedom, not suffering. An America that sought peace, not war, an America that allowed people to pursue their dreams, not be pursecuted because of them. It is quintessentially agaisnt the tribalistic nature to be civilized and to be at peace with men, rather than take from them and kill them. But the power mongers exist in more dangerous posiitions and wear a facade of civility that shocks most. Ghadafi wore suits worth tens of thousands of dollars, but to quote fight club, sticking feathers up your butt doesnt make you a chicken. But the rabbit hole spirals deeper. In our country, I would venture to say since its inception, there have been forces at work looking to further their goals of money and power. One of the most notiable being the Federal Reserve bank. It is no more federal than federal express, the system is designed to keep the population and government in debt. To control the debt that conflicts create and instill the belief that it is acceptable and proper to measure ones self against a sliding credit scale. To assess ones value on the score determined but Experian and Equifax. The vehicle of materialistic capitalism, while pure in intent, is a perfect mode to carry this standard to the country. We are inundated with advertisements with expensive cars, and jewelry and houses and "things" that we cannot afford. We take a loan to afford it, but do we really own it? We believe that this is how society works, and because of the degrading system of education, and liberal conditioning, we do not question. But men were not meant to live this way. Re read the declaration of independence and think hard about what it means to be herded like cattle into a life of debt...