"There will never be a revolution in America."
This is rather insightful, and dare I say likely the case.
It's been many decades of subversion that have led to this.
https://video.nostr.build/d93f5a443b17d8508f1e6be5f9e77a693a0fb17f320d93359c5fc2b69fef99b5.mp4
Who is this Marxist asshat?
Name is Shahid Bolsen.
Could anyone use any more Marxist keywords then this?
He's a Muslim who studied African-Amerucan studies, and latched onto Malcolm X.
Yep. Marxism is what his brain runs on.
Is he wrong though?
Yes, on some important points.
He talks as though corporate media culture is the only culture. In many ways America is the last bastion of authentic English, Scots and German culture.
He talks as though no one in America has any culture older than 1950. I am a young man, and when I was growing up public schools still taught Shakespeare and King Arthur and Homer.
He talks as though the English language is determined by what is in the dictionary. In reality, 'tis the other way 'round.
It's not that the culture has been entirely eradicated, but rather that it has become the dominant culture which is then exported to many parts of the world. Just compare how people spoke 50 years ago to today, in one example. Slow changes that may seem otherwise natural, except they always trend in a negative direction.
Are they still teaching homer and shakespeare, or has that been deemed racist and turned into a diversity Disney movie? Again, not exclusively in the US, but it's pretty easy to see how standards in schooling have dropped year by year since I left. I could see it dropping in real time in the lower grades as I was leaving school some 20 years ago.
The vocabulary problem is caused by our educational system, which is common throughout the world. Its because kids are grouped with their own age group and the only person talking to them with a bigger vocabulary is the teacher, and teachers are usually trying to dumb down their vocabulary so kids can learn the material faster. I used to be a teacher. The solution is multi-grade level classes, maybe even putting kids in the same classes as adults. No kid should ever be sitting next to someone of the same age.
How was schooling organized in, say, the 50s? (Not referring to segregation). Private schooling still produces people who can speak eloquently. I think it's a case of training (propagandizing) teachers who then in turn teach that to kids. 20 years ago I wouldn't take much issue with putting my kids in the school system, even knowing what I know now. But today? No way.
Does pop music play no role in this? TV and entertainment? Seeing as that influences people of many age groups, it feels like that would be a bigger driving factor.
Everything plays a role. Pop music certainly does, but phones are worse. That was one of the things that disappointed me while I was trying to shift to teaching in the US - teachers are mostly not allowed to take away phones, and the exceptions are only after state-level legislature that prescribes when and how they can take away phones. Teachers in the US really have their hands tied, and any slight deviation (in one direction) equals prompt dismissal.
The 1950's, I think, was different in that there was a kind of momentum from previous generations still affecting them. Our society was just beginning to be litigious and heavy with policy. A lot of schools still taught marksmanship, with real guns. People in general were tougher and more responsible. But if you go back to before ww2, classes were mixed ages and several grades were together in one classroom. Modern school structure is modeled after British schooling, mostly invented at Cambridge, and it was pushed in the US by Roosevelt and all his socialist bullshit. IMO, Roosevelt murdered America, and only a few people are able to see it now because the detrimental affects of policy unfold over generations.
They only teach the Trivium in the elite schools now. There is a reason people are getting dumber. 
We should bring that back, for sure. I'd be worried we'd botch it, though, by making the class book-heavy. If I did it, I'd try to blend rhetoric with drama, make the kids compete in oratory performance, and sprinkle in the classical education between performances.
They need to scrap government schools and compulsory schooling and things would quickly fix itself. Education and learning is a life long journey and there is no need for kids or adults to spend so long "learning"
100%
I am strongly in favor of apprenticeship for poorer families and private tutoring for wealthy families
(the main methods of instructing children & young adults for all of Western history)
Government Schools are a jobs project scam.
I said the same once to another teacher, and he couldn't process it. It just couldn't penetrate... I said if a kid doesn't want to be there, he should be able to go. If a kid wants to work, they should be able to work. That way, they'd realize what an opportunity school is, or can be, and then they'd grow up and some would be teachers, and they would teach like it actually matters. Because it does matter, and they think think it matters, but they don't **_know_** it matters, because if they did, they wouldn't let class be a waste of everyone's time.
π―> if they don't have the choice to be there, it is a prison.
I have found kids interest and curiosity alone will inspire them to learn, if you try to force them, you will kill any interest they might have had.
That right there is the Dao of teaching. Can a teacher cause kids to be interested? If yes, then that's a good teacher, and it doesn't matter if they have experience or assign homework or anything that normally qualifies you to teach. A lazy teacher can be the best at it, if they can pose the questions that cause the student to pursue it independently.
They are teaching things like "The Outsiders" and "The Diary of a Young Girl" (Anne Frank) because it let's them bring up Marxist generative themes so they can indoctrinate kids into becoming communist activists.
Absolutely.
You've gone after the messenger rather than the message, which suggests that you're somewhat in denial.
He links to a petition that wants to expel the USA from the UN. π€£
Hopefully they're successful.
Note commie raised fist.
https://www.change.org/p/invoke-article-6-and-expel-the-us-from-the-united-nations
Heβs not wrong. If we canβt think, we canβt revolt.
Not Marxist.
Academic recycled racial-guilt puke, rather.
Read this book.
I'm a capitalist - not a single marxist hair on my head. And as a freedom maximalist anarcho capitalist, I say this book is a must-read.
Also the guy in vid seems to be modeling this look.
Oh man, I'm resonating with this. Americans are truly like toddlers (that where I'm at in the video).
I think he lays it out very, very well. Not just America. The West in general.
Americans are married to Convenience.
Revolution is Inconvenient.
That may be a good thing. Violent revolution is not the way.
π€ But also, peaceful revolution yields no fruit if violence is not an option.
It's also puts everyone at an inherent disadvantage, since the controllers are happy to use violence against us at every turn.
Guillotines don't need to be violent π
But mockery, opting out and building parallel systems is probably more powerful.
Never is a very long time
Never, unless the culture is restored. Who orchestrated all the degeneracy in the west, I wonder...
I think about 20% of the US is actively rooting for the degenerate culture, about 30% passively accept it, about 40% quietly disapprove and about 10% vociferously disapprove.
20% is more than 10% but not so much more that it is "the culture". There's an awful lot of people who don't greenlight Hollywood films and thus are not "the culture" in the commercialized way he has defined it, but are "the culture" in reality.
That sounds like a fair assessment. It is a growing problem, and people have been pacified all over the west, preferring comfort over moral obligation.
I feel like the fastest way to reverse course would be to stop watching TV entirely and do something else with our time.
You and Shahid are not coming from the same page with regards to revolution.
Being a Marxist I assume he is venting frustration that the LGBT, CRT, DEI, crowd won't rise up in revolution after all the Marxists have done to try and generate revolutionary energy through their woke intersectionality identity cultural Marxism.
It is people like him that have been pushing this cultural degradation throughout the West.
You are coming from a place where you don't understand why Americans haven't risen up against what people like Shahid are pushing onto society.
A thing about the Leninist hardliners and revolutionary romantics is that they are NOT creative, independent thinkers, because they've been regurgitating the 'revolution' stuff for most of a century without realizing that the fundamentals have changed.
The soil in the US is not conductive to Marxist-Leninist revolution, especially not when people puking up this tired garbage are mostly comfy middle class public employees and academics that have far too much to lose (ie. Everything) about their lifestyles in case of societal upheaval.
Is a culture that disallows even controlled opposition like many Muslim societies more or less confident of itself? Total suppression may be a sign of confidence that it will never provoke enough of a counter-reaction towards the totalitarian culture I guess. Feels totalitarian to me.
But good to listen to dissenting voices sometimes, however much they are projecting.
Build. Your. Culture.
I am so sad by how wildly accurate this guy is about the vast majority of americans.
At the same time, I feel extremely blessed to have been given the ability to see and think so differently.
Ive always felt like an outsider, it can be very isolating, but when I speak to those feelings and think on the differences I have - I can see it for what it really is.
GET TO WORK.
I think this person does not know what he is talking about. The trigger for revolution is the aura of famine, once societies get to that point, you better have the weapons ready.
It just so happens that Americans are not there yet and it will be decades or centuries before they find themselves there.
Any society is only three meals away from rioting, people don't like being hungry for some reason... If you don't think it will happen where you live, just ask yourself how quickly toilet rolls disappeared from the shelves five years ago... Then ask yourself who is buying up all the farm land, making it harder for farmers to be profitable, regulating every business and trade possible. Every day, people are drawn deeper into the system of enslavement, of impoverishment, of control. Most of them won't wake up until they are 3 meals short and it will be too late to do anything other than starve. There must be a reason why the World Economic Forum was pointing at "By 2030, you will own nothing, have no privacy and be eating ze bugz!". 5 years isn't a long time....
Where I live is fucked, I am talking about the USA here. I do not think they are subjected to the same problems we have in Europe. Different, perhaps far away in the future.
How do I send this?
Via text?
