FEAR AND LOATHING - IN EDUCATION

"A gentleman is a man who keeps
other men's secrets."
 Matthew McConnehey
(upon answering the question:
"what he considered the definition of a gentleman"  during an interview
regarding the criminal-inspired movie:
"The Gentleman"
during
the #Metoo movement)

Before I go much further I must address the amount of Fear and Posturing that is happening within education right now.  I know because I have witnessed GROSS examples of it, even just recently, as a professor struggled to deal with their own compiling fears.

But first, we must look at WHO is using fear and other negative non-social means to 'educate' us.

Because it's not the norm, nor is it something that is normally acceptable, and yet... certain professors (teacher's aids even) slide into this reactive, knee-jerk mode whenever their ego gets a bump.

I suspect (mostly from hours and hours of studying and reading about psychology) that those who resort to fear and intimidation, especially initially, are actually extremely intimidated.  Those that double and triple down on the child-like posturing - even more so.

You see, it takes strength to hold compassion, especially for someone you can't identify with, someone you don't really regard as a human deserving of equality.  Perhaps that's why Matthew McConnehey was keen to go on the very first episode of "Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man", a podcast started during the BLM protests, where he wasted zero time arguing for 'MERIT-BASED EQUALITY'.  Something he did directly after admitting on camera - he had no idea racism even existed prior to the riots...

In all of my observations, I have never seen an ounce of actual humanity or real compassion from Mr. McConnehey.  I've witnessed (via twitter and other public social  settings) him using black athletes during the BLM protests, instead of connecting with them equally.  I witnessed him belittle his wife by ONLY referring to her as arm candy - and then ignore her for the better part of a year in favor of shining his light on things that would improve his social standing... in his eyes.

When people cannot hold compassion - they cannot hold the story, the whole story - they can only hold the whip-like tail they think is serving them.  In fact, this is why we have the saying, "when the tail wags the dog."

Men like McConnehey, who deny other people's lived experiences in the face of all evidence, have to use posturing to cover for their inability to take in information they cannot process, which is always the majority of the information.

Without compassion humans cannot even grasp the truth, let alone distribute it.

The collective psyche of humanity has been driven into Plato's cave, where now we are expected to believe that top-down charity is beneficial, that billionaires are ethical (even prosocial), and the health and welfare of ourselves and our families is less important than the machinations of the social cannibals?

When we hand the keys over to the type of people who use fear and intimidation - they hunt, harm, and farm our children. 

They gather them into useless buildings and habituate them to their own slavery.

The only people who don't seem to recognize that we have more than enough proof of the programming that has been going on, is still going on, even (perhaps especially) at the University level - seems to be the knee jerk fear-wielding sociopath-like professors, who have never integrated the PRACTICE OF HUMANITY with their style of 'education' because they were not required to.

That has to change.

Fear and Loathing... tells us a lot about today's Storytelling...

how the constellation of story lines allowed to pass the evil gatekeepers - has driven certain narratives to the exclusion of all else, and the Fear and Posturing of our educators - seems to be doing the vary same thing.

If you have a teacher who is using fear and posturing as a way to 'keep valid complaints, concerns, and testimony from being expressed safely' then you are a victim of this cycle, and you simply do not deserve it.

I know it is terrifying taking a stand and going to the Dean of Students with your complaint, as we have ample proof the system is corrupted in favor of these fear-mongers, but things will not get better for any of us if we simply keep quiet about the blatant abuses these educators are perpetrating upon us.

We have the right to be heard in the manner we are speaking - which we know cannot happen at the fear-wielding professor level.

We have a right to get the education we paid for, not the education broken and vastly unprepared and unqualified people are at times trying to force upon us.

Fear and intimidation are the byproducts of not being prepared, not having the backbone, the balls, or INTEGRITY to do what is right and proper.  Fear and posturing is what toddlers do, I know, as a former daycare teacher.  The tantrums of toddlers and the tantrums of overly entitled professors who rest their 'merit based' equality upon the pillar of unearned privilege - are the SAME. 

They both lack the ability to connect at an adult level, at an equal level.  And just as a toddler demands - the knee-jerk professor who resorts first to posturing and/or intimidation is unable to summon the necessary skills to meet another adult human at the level they deserve - a level of common respect, courtesy, and decorum.

And it's simply because they are terrified of their own inability to function in a society that requires compassion (and the applied tools of compassion) for success.  

Sadly, their own fear becomes the only functioning tool in their toolbox they feel equipped to wield.

Don't let them spread that fear to you.

You have a right to be educated in the classes you pay for - by educators QUALIFIED to pass along the full package of what is KNOWN information in that field.  And teachers who wield fear as their shield are ill-equipped to provide that to you.  Sadly, a desperate need to hide that fact from everyone is what I believe ultimately drives them into the dark recesses of their own internalized fear.

The choice is yours, ultimately, because only you know what is at stake, as education is the only regulated ladder out of colonial-initiated poverty.

But know this... there are loads of people working tireless right now, generating new systems of education - so that mental and social predators - such as those who only have fear as a tool - will not be allowed any authority in your betterment, or the betterment of your children.

Education is NO JOKE - but the educators who wield fear and intimidation - instead of knowledge, wisdom & compassion - are.  And The Joke is On Them.  Because the time they waste trying to prop up half the story will leave them with nothing but a comical and cautionary legacy.

Your time - the time of humanity - is upon us.

Now.

Namaste
The Storyteller

*I'm picking on Mr. McConnehey  today because the National Society of Leadership and Success has decided to use this extremely ill-equipped celebrity as a spokesperson.  (More in an upcoming post.)

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 "John of God" supporter and Mr. Mcconaughey
two peas in a 
disgusting pod.