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I’ll go ya one better: The return to the benefits of actually teaching critical thinking skills. That being the real ability to see solutions, weigh potential outcomes and arrive at the best solutions for the benefit of all, not just a select few “in the right-think/right-speak” club. But for understanding consequences, penalties, potential disaster-areas, etc.

Human history is rife with examples of how egoism and economics got in the way of safety..the Titanic being a more recently investigated case where the substandard metallurgy, decision to use it, the captain’s decision to operate at a continued high rate of speed, etc.

What we, as a race, repeatedly move away from, is caution and perhaps a reasonable dose of cynicism in order to protect ourselves from “what could possibly go wrong?”.

I resort to my own several cases with a commander I once had who I tried to protect by informing him of the downside of his desires and orders. He classified me as “very negative” but when the sh** inevitably hit the fan, he laid the blame on me for not telling him it could happen. I then resorted to keeping a log of our conversations and politely reminded him of when I did warn him with specifics. No, it did not benefit my situation but I didn’t care anymore anyhow.

But in our society, I still stand on my argument that it is so much more important for individuals to feel wanted and to belong than it is to make the hard, correct decisions. Obama is very much a case in point. He makes decisions primarily on the basis that his “peer group” (such as it is” will think highly of him and accept him as one of their own. Among his other personality flaws and narcissism, this is perhaps the most obvious.

But at the end of the day, 2+2 cannot equal five and never will, no matter how many times the national socialists demand that it does.