Down the well-lubricated slippery slope to a pit of depraved, degenerate, exploitative sick, smiley-faced, sexual grooming of children
For our last year of high school, my sister and I were given scholarships to a prestigious school in Chicago. It was nationally known as a very innovative school that encouraged intellectual exploration, forward-thinking, creativity, etc. Many of the the teachers had in fact been students there themselves and the classroom relationships between students and teachers were both respectful and refreshingly interactive.
Sooooo, I was a little surprised by the video that James O’Keefe just released. Well, I was more than a little surprised. But then I thought about it a bit more, by it meaning how this prestigious, over 120-year-old, albeit liberal, academic powerhouse morally tanked.
I remembered that one of the students perhaps a couple of grades below me, was Nicholas Pritzger. If that name sounds familiar it’s because I’ve referred to a “super-wealthy degenerate” behind all of the sex reassignment mutilations, who happens to be the governor of Illinois and a relative of Nicholas. Now my recollections of Nicholas Pritzger are of a clean-cut, popular, intelligent student.
None of the current hyper-liberal-left-lunacy was on the radar back then and Parker churned out tons of highly accomplished graduates who went on to become prominent in politics, business, the arts, sciences, etc. Of course, then there was…me.
Coming in for the tail end of my high school education, I maintained my strict focus on playing guitar, art, trying to stay awake in academic classes, playing softball and driving around in a used, 1950s MG Magnette. I would not be remembered for any, er, scholastic accomplishments.
However, I was always invited to class reunions, some of which I attended when an LA-based graduate hosted them. So, shortly after my film, And Did They Listen, came out, I enthusiastically contacted the the principal, Dan Frank, and told him I’d like to present it at the school in a Morning Ex. He told me to send a copy so he could view it first.
I contacted Frank after he’d seen the film and, despite my anticipation that the principal of this cutting-edge institution would want its young, brightest of the bright, future Harvard graduates to learn about the most important true story in all of science and human history, he declined. I remember asking him why, only to receive his vague, evasive non-reason that ended the call.
I thought that Parker would be more open to the film than the lovely folks at ASU, who probably thought it was the work of the devil. About a year ago, after receiving one of those email updates from the school, I contacted the sender, who’d also been a classmate of mine, decades ago. After exchanging a couple of emails and a phone call, I told her I wanted to send her some info on what I was doing, with the hope that she’d help me to bring the film to the school, eight years after my first futile attempt.
Again, to my surprise, my friend not only declined to help but was clearly very upset about the subject matter. It was a Twilight Zone moment. This school, and the people I’d personally known, as well as known about, seemed to have transformed into fearful, shut-down conservatives, just a few steps away from becoming book-banners-and-burners.
I thought perhaps it was just one of those kinds of metamorphoses, an inevitable yin-turns-to-yang process, where people who were once so proud of their open-minded, all-embracing, progressive mind-sets were contracting, like a universe that had expanded as far as it could and was now compressing and collapsing in on itself, on its way to a lengthy slumber before big-banging itself back into existence once again.
It took less than the full 2:20 minutes of the video to disabuse me of any such cosmic clarity. Liberal tolerance and arrogance has allowed this unspeakable descent down the…well-lubricated slippery slope to a pit of depraved, degenerate, exploitative sick, smiley-faced, sexual grooming of children.
I never expected anything like this to become of this institution. That being said, while I am so many decades removed from my own good experiences, I can only wonder how the parents, and children, will cope with, feel and what they will do about this outrage.
One thing’s for sure, the political right won’t have difficulty expressing moral outrage and taking advantage of this abomination. That’s how morality ping-pong works. Of course, Christian fundamentalists have more than their fair share of such atrocities in their own churches and schools.
But for those of us who don’t play political gotcha, and look to learn and live by true, eternally valid universal values, laws and principles, there is neither joy nor surprise at how America, and other parts of the world, have deteriorated in large part due to poisonous political partisanship, mind-enslaving delusional religions, and the institutions that perpetuate them.
See also:
Former Francis Parker Student Sues School, Claims She Was Groomed by Ex-Teacher
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To say, “I hear ya, Michael” . . would be an understatement, so, thanks for sharing your insights above.
A large majority of humanity, on an individual basis, or, groups of people with similar tastes and opinions, are usually very busy doing and consuming many entertainment values . . yet, when it comes down to breaking away from monkey mind, most people are lazy and disinterested in thinking outside the box. I think people are actually needlessly intimidated by the spiritual teachings. [what would the Jones’ think?]
It brings up my recall of a phone chat I shared with Wendelle Stevens decades back. He specifically advised that if I genuinely pursue the Meier material, [outside of the physical evidence he gave for objective scientific analysis,] then I would like aggravate family members and friends, but gain some real friends along the way.
‘Let the Forest be with you.”
they are united by hatred against good
I always enjoy personal stories, because they are born from personal experiences, which can elicit more empathy, and enjoyment for the reader. I certainly relate to your puzzling, and ironic experiences with your high school. One incident, years ago, at a middle, or junior high school in Brooklyn, NY, comes to mind. I was speaking to the principal about teaching, and conveying different ways to teach, and wondered why I couldn’t teach about a certain subject. This elicited a quick and poignant response from him, “There is no academic freedom.” His words hit me like a thunderbolt. In retrospect I should have asked him to qualify his response with a question like, your school, or all schools? There is nothing that will stymie growth like prejudice, which inevitably keeps one groping in the dark.
I try to be tolerant and understanding as much as possible, which involves neutral thinking, in order not to go off on ignorant people. It is patently obvious that liberals are deeply mired in woke ideology, which is spear-headed by power-hunger and delusional thinking. People who are indoctrinated by irrational thinking such as beliefs, assumptions, and speculation, unless they have at least an epiphany of the effective truth, are not conscious enough to grasp it. The more I live, the more imminent the laws and recommendations of Creation are. To quote Billy, “You have to go through hell before you get to heaven.” I am convinced of this.