NSA “Nothing To See Here, People” Types Thoroughly Embarrassed Again - WashingtonMonthly

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48. Isn't the "Conspiracy Theory" Frame getting a bit Old?

History is made up of conspiracies - usually to trick the poor into dying in wars for the rich. Grade School history was boring because all that was stripped out and replaced with half-truths and 'patriotic myths'.

Of course, when you consider that schools were designed to create, "A nation of workers - not thinkers" (John D. Rockefeller) per the Foundation-Heads who designed them - it is not surprising that the goal is to turn young minds off to history, which would pull the curtain back behind the system of "manufacturing consent" (Chomsky) allowing for the continuing trend of citizen-disempowerment to continue.

In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply.

- Rockefeller’s General Education Board - Occasional Letter Number One (1906).