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In his huge book, 1984, George Orwell sums up his entire
message this way:
"Freedom is the right to say that 2 plus 2 equals 4."
The reason Orwell's statement is so wise is because propagandists
always try to tell us that things are not as they appear.
Your professor told you that all the things he said are
really very, very complex. But what one learns from a
lifetime of experience is that people's real motivations,
no matter how many degrees they have, are very simple.
Any human being who is hired to talk daily for years
to a captive audience will do what any human being does
when he talks: he tries to look good.
All humans, left to their own devices, say whatever they
think makes them look good. No matter how hard I try,
WhitakerOnline is going to contain lots of references
to my background and my experience, and not all of them
are going to be for your benefit.
Benjamin Franklin's short autobiography is great because
he starts off by admitting that the main reason he wrote
about himself was his own ego.
But almost every European or Canadian will look you straight
in the eye and tell you that his teachers and professors
did not push political leftism and socialism because political
leftism and socialism makes professors look good.
This simple fact has never occurred to anybody, though
if you think about it just a moment you will realize it
is one of the most important facts in the world today.
Like supply and demand, once you actually look at professor's
natural human bias, it changes your whole view of the
world. What is terribly hard is to get people to see how
important this simple fact is.
No matter how "complex and unsimplistic" you get, you
can't know anything about real world economics until you
have done a lot of thinking about supply and demand.
By the same token, you are simply not IN this world until
you have done some serious thinking about the UNAVOIDABLE
human biases of the people who ruled your life for at
least eight years.
To repeat:
It is not surprising that almost all Europeans and Canadians
worship professors. You are the miracle because you went
through eight years of this and it didn't take.
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