Common Core at Lakota: Jaden Smith “School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth”
The reason I have been pointing out recently the excessive popularity centering on the war games from Fantasy Flight Games is that there is an obvious social shift that modern statists are not observing. The amount of people who are rushing out to purchase new updates of the new Star Wars Miniatures game is quite astonishing. The reason is that when I was a kid, it was very unpopular to be such a geek and openly play Star Wars games, or even Dungeons and Dragons. That kind of activity came with a kind of social stigma that was negative. If a young person didn’t play a sport, or hang out with a certain kind of popular personality type, they were on the out and thought of as social rejects. But in 2013 that stigma is all but gone. To get a sense of what I’m talking about watch the video below which was an annual address given by Fantasy Flight Games at the recent Gen Con in Indianapolis. Pay particular attention to the 41 minute mark of the video and measure the crowd reaction.
I find that an important observation for the simple reason that within ten years there will be a dramatic shift in public sentiment toward the traditions of public education, especially the benefit of extra-curricular activities like football and cheerleading. As the college bubble busts, millions of kids realizing they are not going to get a scholarship to a school that will only waste their time will not submit to the age-old scam of public education funding. When the youth of the current generation, the age of young people who are rushing out to purchase the latest Fantasy Flight Game offering, there will not be sympathetic ears to future levy requests and the type of tripe offered by the Lakota school system shown below attempting to sell the benefits of Common Core instruction to a gullible public.
Common Core is a statist education system, and those who support it typically see big government solutions to family problems. They envision the school stepping in to a family to save the child from a future their parents are not qualified to provide—at least as defined by the statist. The pro and con selections above are clearly in favor of preserving the present education system—which a year or two ago might have upset me greatly. But there is a trend forming that the supporters of Common Core and public education in general has not yet identified—the trend that can be seen in gaming circles where young people from age 15 to 30 are gathering to play games like Magic the Gathering, X-Wing, and War Hammer. Those gamers are not raising families as their predecessors did many years ago, the types of people who attended the Cherokee Elementary meeting about Common Core shown in the above documents. Those previous generations loved the social activity of public school, the bands, the cheerleading and the football. The next generation doesn’t care so much, and it shows. There’s nothing in a Friday night football game for them when it is far more exciting to play a war game with friends over pizza.
When I was a kid, only remote pockets of people did these kinds of things, playing games and indulging in “anti-social” behavior which was the typical stereotypes of Dungeon and Dragon players. Most everyone else craved to “be seen” at the football game parents and students alike. In this way, the school was the center piece of a community, and the labor unions took advantage of the social addiction with high taxes for wages that were clearly inflated. Increasingly, the demographic group who plays Fantasy Flight types of games and video games is changing the marketplace. Speaking with these people increasingly with my experiences playing X-Wing there is a noticeable rebellion against school centered activity. I do not see today’s X-Wing, and Magic players sitting in a future meeting of Common Core education and listening like mindless drones to the diatribes of big government school board types. I see a rejection of state centered education in favor of alternatives.
Jaden Smith represents well this new emerging public school sentiment from the upcoming generation. Jaden might be best known as the star of the remake of “The Karate Kid” and for his lifelong role as the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, but the 15-year-old is also starring in his own online controversy after sounding off against America’s education system, calling school a brainwashing tool. And guess what………….It should come as no surprise, but as a 45-year-old man, I agree with the young fellow. He’s dead right.
Jaden tweeted to his more than 4.5 million followers on Sept. 12, “School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth” and “If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.”
Jaden, 15, is considered Hollywood royalty, being a friend of Justin Bieber and dating a sister of the Kardashians, Kylie Jenner, but some people say he is setting a bad example with his comments.
Jaden Smith’s opinion is rather typical of the gaming crowd—a crowd that is growing rapidly. Again, when I was a kid, nobody spoke the way Smith did. Nobody wanted to be considered a “social outcast.” But increasingly, it is cool to be against statism, and to play table-top war games and World of Warcraft late into the night. Those people once they become property owners of their own and get married are likely to plug their children into a computer and homeschool them so that they can save the expense of paying for fees at a public school for typical sports programs, and transportation costs. The parents of tomorrow won’t be whisking their children off to soccer games to satisfy some silly social imposition of public opinion—they will be playing games with their kids at their dinner tables and staying home to save the money so they can buy more games from Fantasy Flight Games.
I bought a new B-Wing fighter over the weekend from the Wave 3 release of Star Wars: X-Wing. The store owner told me that his shipment of 50 arrived on Thursday and were gone by Sunday. I bought his last one. Ten years ago, I along with a handful of others would have been the only ones to make such a purchase. Today, there are at least 50 in three days. Ten years from now, it will be commonplace, and high school sports will be the rarity. The social gains made in public school that were so important to previous generations are dying on the vine, and Common Core, with all the cheerleading by statists for it, is an education system that is currently on the life support of extraordinary high taxes paid by a sympathetic generation who still sees public schools as the center of communities. But at Yattaquest in Mt. Healthy on a Friday night, or Gamestop any day of the week, an entirely new voting bloc is emerging, and they feel about public school the same as what Jaden Smith does. When they grow up and have property and their own families, they won’t listen to the kind of Common Core presentations that Joan Powell and company performed at Lakota with the above documents.
Public education may win a victory here and there, but the nail is already in their coffin. The youth of today will not support it in the future the way that other generations have because they have seen the scam firsthand. The statists who advance the myth that public education and society in general are the pillars of a community are going to learn in the very near future the folly of their beliefs. To see the future, visit a war game store on the weekend and study the type of people who are so passionate about those games. Society may call them nerds, but they are smart, because their hobby demands they use their brains, and they see through the veil of statist education programs like Common Core—and they won’t bite on the bait thrown into the tax increase waters. They won’t care if the statists call them names such as selfish, greedy, or anti-social. Because all they will care about is having enough money to purchase a new pack of Magic the Gathering, or X-Wing Miniatures. To them, the schools can rot away into oblivion and free the children who are imprisoned within their clutches of unthinking tyranny.
Rich Hoffman
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