We are once again being presented the lesson that we didn’t learn every previous time a tyranny has been overthrown: That the overthrow must be total, that the power and influence the tyrants wielded must be entirely destroyed, that those responsible can’t be allowed to survive their crimes, and that the ideas that enabled their rule must become warnings taught to all from birth.
Until we learn the lesson, we’re never going to grow out of this insane cycle.
Sadly, I believe that’s the point of American public schools not teaching it. If you look at the origins of our public schools, it makes perfect sense.
We are once again being presented the lesson that we didn’t learn every previous time a tyranny has been overthrown: That the overthrow must be total, that the power and influence the tyrants wielded must be entirely destroyed, that those responsible can’t be allowed to survive their crimes, and that the ideas that enabled their rule must become warnings taught to all from birth.
Until we learn the lesson, we’re never going to grow out of this insane cycle.
Sadly, I believe that’s the point of American public schools not teaching it. If you look at the origins of our public schools, it makes perfect sense.