SUBTITLE: What Do
Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Zhivago Have In Common?
So… now the
pampered and protected youth of America will receive instruction on the merits
and rewards of the popular and propagated social movement known as Occupy Wall
Street.
Gone will be the threat of suspension or
expulsion for disrupting the education of other students. The 99% will now be educated and informed on
how to control the 1%, while receiving credit towards their American Studies or
Political Science degrees. And they (and
their parents) will continue to pay undergraduate tuition to the tune of
$41,000. What is wrong with this
picture?
I would expect
this kind of nonsense from a university in New York, but how long before this
cancer spreads to other Liberal Arts colleges and becomes an acceptable part of
the curriculum? And will you really be
surprised when it turns up in our high schools and middle schools?
I am not a
proponent of corruption or injustice, but if anyone dares to proclaim that
America is no longer the land of dreams and opportunity, or that the unwashed
masses have the right to take what they want (but are unwilling to work
for)…..then how far away are we from living out the story of the popular movie,
Dr. Zhivago?
That may seem like
a huge leap, but follow me. A young
idealistic social democrat (Pasha) gets caught up in the fervor of standing up
for the poor and disadvantaged worker.
The peaceful protests soon turn violent when the government uses
paramilitary forces (the Cossacks) to squelch the demonstrations.
The idealistic
youth and poor are pitted against the producing class and the wealthy elites to
foment a revolution in which the new Communist party emerges.
When Yuri Zhivago
returns from the western front to his boyhood home in Moscow, he finds it
divided into tenements by the new Soviet government; the family’s possessions
have been divided among the proletariat.
He is reduced to scrounging stolen firewood in order to keep his family
warm during the freezing Russian winter.
His poetry has been condemned as being antagonistic to Communism.
The producers of
Russian society have effectively and efficiently been collectively punished for
their transgression of having something someone else wanted. Zhivago decides to “bug out” and head for
their country estate, where the family thrives for a short time.
But in the end,
the civil war in Russia separates families, lovers and friends; political
allies become political foes and Trotsky’s world revolution is abandoned in
favor of Stalin’s socialism.
Stalin’s “New
Economic Policy” saw a period of rapid social changes and resulted in mass
repression of the populace --- and that’s putting it mildly (research Joseph
Stalin and his Great Purge for the depth of his immoral and evil actions).
We have not yet
reached the stage where the participants of Occupy Wall Street have joined an
army to sweep across this country and effect massive political and economic
change, BUT they have been allowed to move into foreclosed and abandoned homes.
(Just Google “Occupy Our Homes”). It’s
the movement’s self-proclaimed New Frontier.
It’s time for Americans to take back our
education system and begin teaching the fundamental goodness of America and what
is at the core of who we are – how to become productive members of society, who
give back and pay it forward; who know the rewards of a hard day’s work, and who
reject the idea of entitlement. Maybe
instead of Occupation 101, there should be a new course and it should be called
“Re-Discovering the Greatness of America”.
And it should be mandatory, not only for students, but professors! Then maybe we could put a stop to this madness.Psalm 111:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To Him belongs eternal praise."
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