Reply #5: Obviously they have their priorites wrong... [View All]

[neoblues]

Don't they know that those "people" down there are an embarrassment to "The Administration" and therefore have been unofficially condemned--so any time spent engaging in such "liberal" activities as personally assisting is not to be encouraged. Plainly, in "Neo-America", people are in it by and for themselves--"individual" achievement is what counts--and "wasting" time helping others is in conflict with the neo-national values, so of course it's going to negatively affect your own personal success.

To be a true Republican--or "proper" American--you have to focus only on yourself. Likewise, college professors who understand the new reality, have a responsibility to "teach" these up and coming young people how "the real world" works. That is, they have a responsibility to not make allowances or accomodations to students who don't yet understand what's important (themselves/their own personal success).

Sadly, all of that ought to be sarcasm, but from where I sit, it very much seems to be the message that's being given to America's youth--throughout the media--in what seems to be an attempt to alter the 'culture' of future generations of Americans. If George Bush can't subvert Social Security and the New Deal programs directly, those behind him can produce a slow but inevitable "sea change" in the world views and culture of the next generation (simply by controlling many aspects of the world they face, such as the availability of education/educational loans, making school into a harsh, dog-eat-dog competition, and an unending variety of other reinforcing messages/propaganda in what the see on TV, video-games, etc...). You think that a generation of self-centered, Republican-idealized people are going to stand for paying the high taxes necessary to pay for Social Security for the large, older/retired population?

Will they, by and large, succeed in changing the values of Americans? I don't know, I hope not. I hope this is just a sort of paranoid suspicion. Alas, it seems to me we'd be fooling not to assume that those behind the current Republican governmental take-over might not, indeed, engage in such Orwellian attempts to manipulate the population/America's future (in a very real, shockingly immoral, albeit subtle way).