Don’t Believe the Lie

Schools are for learning. For the taxpayer’s money, students are expected to acquire a standard and fruitful education. They’re being prepared to enter the workforce. The goal is for them to become productive members of society. A noble task, right?

But it’s a farce. Students aren’t getting much of anything from their days spent in the miserable halls of school. They learn to answer questions that nobody will ask them. They dabble in professions that will hold no appeal to them. They’re taught a smidge of this and a smidge of that while faculty knows that it won’t pay off for most of them.

And in the worst cases, the only thing they’re being taught is how to be an obedient mind slave to whatever the flavor of the month is. School—particularly universities—is where the most outlandish and nonsensical opinions and theories are instilled in children and young adults. They became infatuated with non-realities like being “triggered” and form ridiculous concepts such as “safe spaces” because the idea of conflict and non-conformity is frightening to them.

“Don’t you think you’re being a little dramatic?” someone asks.

No. I’d even argue that the nature of how children are schooled becomes an endless feeding trough for these disastrous concepts.

Think about it: from the age of five or six, children are placed with complete strangers for eight or nine hours a day and expected to get along. They’re forced to sit through the tutelage of an adult they don’t recognize as the authority in their lives. Said adult has their own agenda, their own beliefs, and even when they aren’t the type to share those thoughts it is inevitable that a bleeding effect occurs.

Children are uprooted from their homes and stored away in a miasma of conflicting ideas, dreary days, bullying, sexuality, and a host of other stains on their lives and their souls.

“But won’t this ready them for the real world? Isn’t life after school harsh, unforgiving, and also stuffed with information and misinformation?”

Yes, life in the workforce isn’t fun for most of us. It can be just as boring and aggravating as any bad school day and likely worse. But it’s also not a cloistered society. People out in the real world are either mature or they aren’t and there’s nothing that can hide one from the other.

Perhaps a person leaving high school can cope with their new life outside of their walled-in existence. Maybe they’ll even have developed a sense for distinguished reality from fantasy. Chances are that they meander through life knowing that school taught them an abundance of interesting but ultimately useless trivia.

“But college! That’s where you go to get an education. Real learning goes on there.”

Listen: the enthusiasm here is great. I’d like to believe that so-called higher education does wonders for the mindset of adolescents. But I’m not naïve and I graduated from one of these institutions four years ago.

If the lesson learned from elementary through high school is that life is harsh, but you can cope with a good education and a commendable work ethic, the lesson learned from college is that you can change the world to suit yourself.

It’s a lie. An enticing and promising lie, but a lie nonetheless. Worse, the transformation of the world isn’t what a student transfigured in this environment really wants. They’re not looking for peace and harmony or smiling faces and friendship.

They’re looking for control and order. Brought up in chaos and disillusionment, how can parents expect anything else from their children?

In early schooling, children are cluttered together and shuffled hourly from subject to subject. Teachers rarely have time to delve in-depth into anything beyond the subject matter. They also don’t have time to inflict much of themselves on an unsuspecting student population.

University teaching changes this. Gone are the massive quantities of students in one room learning multiple subjects from someone living on their tiny salary. Now they’re afforded concentrated time and effort in a reduced population. Students develop relationships with their teachers in a more intimate setting.

Without all the noise and fluff, the rhetoric of an appealing (and flawed) professor shines through.

From that narrowed viewpoint, students come to believe the lie. They become entranced by the fairytale that they’re special snowflakes whose own agendas and beliefs aren’t allowed to be contradicted, even with evidence.

The world is their enemy. It must be controlled and reconfigured to their liking.

Most of us empathize with the sentiment that the world needs changing. How often do you look around and see the vile, disgusting acts on display in television and newspapers, on sidewalks and theaters, and even on your front doorstep? How much of this is propped up in perpetuity by the same people spreading the lie to your children?

In the end, the Truth will out. The utopia that these “learned” folks long for is not attainable for them. It is the lie of their father, the selfsame father of lies. The fairytale is bought and paid for by arrogance and the prideful (delusional) wish to be their own God.

That’s the lesson they might never learn until it’s too late.

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (Proverbs 14:12)

“Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die. Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord—how much more, human hearts. A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.” (Proverbs 15:10-12)

May we all keep to the Truth in these times of confusion, myths, and lies. Thanks for reading and God bless.