If Government School's Mission Was Education....

[PoliticalChic]

....instead of indoctrination, you'd have been taught that the French Revolution was the origin of every totalitarian institution.
It was the model for both the Russian Revolution, and Mao's version.

1. Which brings me to today's birthday boy...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Britannica.com



2. Rousseau's ideas, and those of the French Revolution, are the same incorporated in those of communism, Nazism, Socialism, Progressivism, Fascism....and those of the current Democrat Party.
It is society that is responsible for the ills of this world.
Private property must be abolished.
The state must raise all children.
Those who do not agree with the general will, must be treated as wild animals.
Terror becomes government policy.
Rousseau despised Christianity, and favored a civic religion....very much the Militant Secularism of Liberals today.


3. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential of them all. Older men like Voltaire had started the work of demolishing the altars and enthroning reason. But Rousseau was the first to combine all the salient characteristics of the modern Promethean: the assertion of his right to reject the existing order in its entirety…[the central motive of every Leftist view]

In both the long and the short term his influence was enormous. In the generation after his death, it attained the status of a myth. He died a decade before the French Revolution of 1789 but many contemporaries held him responsible for it…

…over a far longer span of time, Rousseau altered some of the basic assumptions of civilized man and shifted around the furniture of the human mind.”
Johnson, “Intellectuals”



4. " If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety").
This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies."
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror


5. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920

Government and the collective over private property and individual God-given rights!

 

[shoshi]

When i was in Paris we went to a courtyard where people were beheaded during the revolution. Morbid. But many countries have morbid history.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

I believe that in the end they will reap what they have sown....... and they will regret what they have fashioned.

*****SMILE*****

 

[PoliticalChic]

When i was in Paris we went to a courtyard where people were beheaded during the revolution. Morbid. But many countries have morbid history.

When I was in Israel, I visited Hebron, and the cave of the patriarchs....where this happened:



On August 23 and 24, 1929, Hebron became a bloody nightmare. House to house, Arab mobs went, bursting into every room looking for hiding Jews. Religious books and scrolls were burned or torn to shreds. The defenseless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their sockets. Infant or adult, man or woman—it mattered not. The carnage went on for hours, with the Arab policemen standing down—or joining in. Blood ran in streamlets down the narrow stone staircases outside the buildings. House to house, room by room, the savagery was repeated.

a. Not a single victim was simply killed. Each was mutilated and tortured in accordance with their identities, the specific information provided by local Arabs. The Jewish man who lent money to Arabs was sliced open and the IOUs burned in his body. The Jewish baker’s head was tied to the stove and then baked. A Jewish scholar who had studied Koranic philosophy for years was seized, his cranium cut open, and his brain extracted. Another man was nailed to a door. Some sixty-seven Jews were brutally murdered.

This was the state of relations- long before Hitler ever gained power. Rather than an anomaly, this was one a along line of ongoing massacres.
Edwin Black discussed his book, “ The Farhud: The Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust.” The lecture was broadcast on C-Span, January 22, 2011.

 

[PoliticalChic]

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I believe that in the end they will reap what they have sown....... and they will regret what they have fashioned.

*****SMILE*****

You optimist, you.

I believe they will perish and take all of us down with them.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

You optimist, you.

I believe they will perish and take all of us down with them.

Not an optimist. I didn't say I would like what they've forged....... But I think they'll regret it worse.

*****SMILE*****

 

[GMCGeneral]

Going to say it all started when Madeline Murray O'Hair wanted to rid the schools of any Christian influence (ironically, her son is a saved, heaven bound, born again believer) and went full batshit crazy when Jimmah Cahtah formed the Department of Education and appointed the SecEd in 1978 as payola for his 1976 endorsement. The ONLY SecEd that tried to stop this was Bill Bennett under Reagan.

 

[PoliticalChic]

....instead of indoctrination, you'd have been taught that the French Revolution was the origin of every totalitarian institution.
It was the model for both the Russian Revolution, and Mao's version.

1. Which brings me to today's birthday boy...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Britannica.com



2. Rousseau's ideas, and those of the French Revolution, are the same incorporated in those of communism, Nazism, Socialism, Progressivism, Fascism....and those of the current Democrat Party.
It is society that is responsible for the ills of this world.
Private property must be abolished.
The state must raise all children.
Those who do not agree with the general will, must be treated as wild animals.
Terror becomes government policy.
Rousseau despised Christianity, and favored a civic religion....very much the Militant Secularism of Liberals today.


3. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential of them all. Older men like Voltaire had started the work of demolishing the altars and enthroning reason. But Rousseau was the first to combine all the salient characteristics of the modern Promethean: the assertion of his right to reject the existing order in its entirety…[the central motive of every Leftist view]

In both the long and the short term his influence was enormous. In the generation after his death, it attained the status of a myth. He died a decade before the French Revolution of 1789 but many contemporaries held him responsible for it…

…over a far longer span of time, Rousseau altered some of the basic assumptions of civilized man and shifted around the furniture of the human mind.”
Johnson, “Intellectuals”



4. " If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety").
This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies."
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror


5. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920

Government and the collective over private property and individual God-given rights!

The ‘funny’ emoticon appears to mean ‘That hurt…I wish I had a way to dispute it.”

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Going to say it all started when Madeline Murray O'Hair wanted to rid the schools of any Christian influence (ironically, her son is a saved, heaven bound, born again believer) and went full batshit crazy when Jimmah Cahtah formed the Department of Education and appointed the SecEd in 1978 as payola for his 1976 endorsement. The ONLY SecEd that tried to stop this was Bill Bennett under Reagan.

That's odd. The Education Department was not created until 1980. Where did you drag up this misinformation?

 

[alang1216]

When i was in Paris we went to a courtyard where people were beheaded during the revolution. Morbid. But many countries have morbid history.

When I was in Israel, I visited Hebron, and the cave of the patriarchs....where this happened:



On August 23 and 24, 1929, Hebron became a bloody nightmare. House to house, Arab mobs went, bursting into every room looking for hiding Jews. Religious books and scrolls were burned or torn to shreds. The defenseless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their sockets. Infant or adult, man or woman—it mattered not. The carnage went on for hours, with the Arab policemen standing down—or joining in. Blood ran in streamlets down the narrow stone staircases outside the buildings. House to house, room by room, the savagery was repeated.

a. Not a single victim was simply killed. Each was mutilated and tortured in accordance with their identities, the specific information provided by local Arabs. The Jewish man who lent money to Arabs was sliced open and the IOUs burned in his body. The Jewish baker’s head was tied to the stove and then baked. A Jewish scholar who had studied Koranic philosophy for years was seized, his cranium cut open, and his brain extracted. Another man was nailed to a door. Some sixty-seven Jews were brutally murdered.

This was the state of relations- long before Hitler ever gained power. Rather than an anomaly, this was one a along line of ongoing massacres.
Edwin Black discussed his book, “ The Farhud: The Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust.” The lecture was broadcast on C-Span, January 22, 2011.

The Hebron massacre refers to the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. A good example of how dangerous rumors and conspiracy theories can be.