Comprachicos

“Ours may be the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”  Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell likely never imagined the atrocities advocated in current education or the political support for chemical or surgical sex changes for children. That some states legislatively provide for doing so, even without parental consent, is morally malignant, but deemed a “progressive” policy is beyond any humanistic concept of decency. Among the animal species on this planet, you can’t find a more repugnant treatment of offspring. It was Alexandre Dumas who said “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

Back in 12/31/20 I wrote a post titled “Twisted”, which included a reference to the term “comprachicos” in Victor Hugo’s novel “The Man Who Laughs”; it was a term referring to the 16C to 18C horrible practice of buying children for the purpose of disfiguring them for the amusement of royalty in the carnival shows of freaks in European courts. One of the great horrors of the Nazi death camps were the obscene experiments performed on children, yet here in America we have the bizarre practice of indoctrinating our young about gender affirming surgery; how this country has sunk to a level equivalent to the barbarism of such psychopaths is extremely disturbing.

Even without the horrific results of such insanity, we have had the disastrous results from the social isolation during the mindless lockdowns during COVID. Just a couple of years back the report from the CDC confirmed that social isolation for children is linked to poor outcomes; in 2021, emergency rooms in 38 children’s hospitals saw a 47% increase in the number of suicide and self-injury cases in the first nine months of the year among children 5 to 8, and a 182% jump among kids ages 9 to 12, compared to 2016. There was a 22.3 percent spike in ER trips for potential suicides by children aged 12 to 17 in summer 2020 compared to 2019.

Instead of addressing the issues underlying such horrors, we have states like Michigan passing legislation making it a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment for misusing pronouns; it is likely that other progressive dominated legislatures will follow. Should anyone object to this mindless woke ideology, they will be labeled extremist, oppressors, or some such nonsense, in order to marginalize them. There seems to be a growing discontent with these hateful policies as some states are banning gender affirming surgery; this issue has been politically harnessed creating even further polarization. The welfare of children should never be a political, but a societal issue, a common ground against these evils perpetrated by an ideology of hate of human virtue in favor of human vices; we are faced with the Nazi and Soviet like practice of brainwashing children with the politicization of education.

It was Goethe who once said that “Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.” In that spirit a rock group from the late seventies wrote lyrics in the song “Another Brick In The Wall” promoting a revolt against indoctrination in education, the lyrics of which I always found inspiring:

“We don’t need no education – We don’t need no thought control – No dark sarcasm in the classroom – Teachers leave them kids alone – Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone – All in all it’s just another brick in the wall – All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.”