I suggest the author is straight out of the 'frustrated orientalist' school of thought ! It's a classic 'wonderful west' V's the rest rant by a person who should have conducted far better research, and then taken the time to analyse the information before coming up with a half way decent premise and argument. In my opinion he would pass membership for the Leo Strauss Neo Con's.....and that is in no way meant as a complement.
I am no fan of western corporates, materialism, well meaning western governments or anything of the sought. But I feel all this wailing and moaning of the current state of a group of politically correct, disempowered, emasculated, educationally challenged individuals in society is overdoing it a bit! Why?, because I believe these sanctified homo sapiens must take their share of the blame! Just check this nonsence out...
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" One of the most amazing feats of the regime is how they coerce young people to go into extreme amounts of debt to be brainwashed and taught not to think before they ever even have a career".
Oh my heart bleeds! How on earth he manages to direct blame against the 'regime' beggars belief. The main reasons young people end up in so much financial stress is more often than not due to their own lack of life skills, i.e. planning, budgeting, research, and awareness than any brainwashing by the 'regime'. The ability of the individual, in this case young people, to make wrong choices is legend. It's always been the same! Where does this lack of life skills come from? Not the 'regimes' education system, no it comes from the primary carers, the parents.
Here is another doozy of a quote;
"Mainstream and not so mainstream religion generally tries to sell people on a hodgepodge of fear and fantasy, with a big pay-off for the self righteous who drink most from the sacred well of Kool-Aid. What must never be attempted is to actually have an authentic spiritual experience, for this would cause the subject to run from the dogma and quite possibly bring most of the remaining parishioners with him. Real consciousness as much an anathema to religion as critical thinking is to academia.
But even if one can escape the grasp of schools and universities, dodge the churches, few can evade the tempting trap of the circus. The television, music, the press, spectator sports, movie stars and the like have an almost hallucinatory power over the sheeple. Not only do these pastimes steal the money of the masses, they brainwash them to boot. The regime’s mantra: pay the master for the right to be enslaved."
Seriously, what is this guy on? I have 17 year old clients who even when they are as high as a kite make more sense that him.....and that is pushing it!
I must be having a bad day, but in all honesty I feel Mr Robert Bonomo should revamp his C.V and look to other more gainful employment other than writing ill thought of essays.
Sorry for the rant, but this guy should try my job for the day, them maybe he would begin to see that the problem is not with the regime, the real problem lies with people from all generations who lack life skills, and who don't aspire to do anything about it.