The amount of opportunities is abundant, but we aren’t
seeing them for what they are. The need for new health care reform is going to
lead to new requirements in hospitals and doctors’ offices. Our president’s
push for sustainability in our environment is opening up new job opportunities
all over the nation. It’s said to be reminiscent of The New Deal that Roosevelt
created, but others are not so optimistic.
It’s very easy in a recession to become pessimistic when it
comes to job opportunities and education, but it’s nothing new. In some ways,
capitalism is designed to squash the humanist idea that everyone should have
the ability to become educated.
Educational facilities began, after all, only to educate the working class just enough to operate or at best repair the new machinery . Rockefeller was regarded as
a philanthropist for the money he put into the programs designed to teach
children obedience.
Today teachers are fighting to teach critical thinking and
to promote a college track for children as early as middle school. College is
where we truly learn to question our potential, but unfortunately many students
give up before then. A combination of disinterest and financial disadvantage
often proves fatal for the hopes and dreams of young children.
A solution for these issues is being seen in the “socialist”
ideas that Obama and many like him are promoting. In a capitalist country these
types of ideas are immediately attacked and persecuted. Even the people who
would benefit from the affordable health care and education are being taught
skepticism.
Let’s be a little conspiratorial for a moment. Let’s presume that the system wants you to
fail. If everyone had the education that would enable them to be rich at the
end of their life, then the competition factor would rise severely. Our megacorporation
owners are predators and predators prey on the weak and sick. If workers around
the nation decided they were all going to rise up against the corporations it
would be an amazing thing. The idea of having to answer to willful and educated
individuals is something from their nightmares.
What they face today is a utopia of consumers who are
distracted by the glitter and gold of the technology age. Most people in
America put up more of a fight with customer service representatives who
deprive them of a McBurger or iText than they would when someone takes away
their right to receive care with no questions asked.
Again, this is nothing new. With all the advancements in
technology and transportation only two things take our interests: entertainment
and death.
We are here plunged in politics funnier than words can express. Very great issues are involved…. But the amusing thing is that no one talks about real interests. By common consent they agree to let us alone…. Instead of this the press is engaged in a most amusing dispute whether Mr. Cleveland had an illegitimate child and did or did not live with more than one mistress. – Henry Adams, 1877
The upcoming election is going to be very important, I just hope our society can hear the difference between the voices of change and the barks of wolves.