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In reply to the discussion: When Our Neighbors Wish Us Dead or Broke, We're in Trouble with More Than Our Health Care System [View all]felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)civics, philosophy and liberal arts have virtually disappeared, which provide building blocks that teach people HOW and WHY they need to think for themselves, and to recognize illusion, manipulation, social skills and compassion. How people are being taught about different cultures, histories told from varying points of view showing diversity, if this is told from a xenophobic or religio-centric point of view this can atrophy and handicap people's ability--and WILL to understand complexity.
Too many people are being conditioned to require simple dumbed down explanations--and it is just plain EASIER to be really mad at your next door neighbor than to grok the big picture.
A lot of these subjects were put away as too 'touchy feely' when privatization and deregulation began to take over. The whole corporatocracy mindset is intrinsically sociopathic. It requires that individual independent thought be replaced with corporate personhood=GROUPTHINK.
Groupthink does not equal unity, because it values obedience above thinking--unity is a product of mass awakening and consciousness.
This is all invisible if you have been CONDITIONED and not educated--this is why logic, data and reasoning do not work--people need to be deconditioned--they first have to recover their ability and WILL to think for themselves.