Certainly we need to take advantage of life-changing events. However, the catastrophic decline of the government schools in every area except creating docile slaves should certainly be used to help abolish them.
For life and liberty, David Macko ----- Original Message ----- From: kiddleddee To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:16 PM Subject: [Libertarian] Re: "If you are explaining, you are losing" --- In [email protected], Vic Cinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Macko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It will be a long slow process of educating people. The Alliance > > for the Separation of School and State has begun the process. > > See www.sepcon.org when the link is back up. > > you know I dont believe this long slow process of educating people works. > > in my experience, people select facts based on beleifs. they question > and reject facts that dont match those beliefs. these tend to get set > failry early on. only life changing events give people space to change > core beliefs. > > any thoughts? __________________________________________________________ You want to know the "life changing event" which caused me to become a libertarian, Vic? (Well, I'll tell you anyhow! :-) ) My daughter was reading a Sesame Street book to me while we were watching a PBS TV show (don't remember which one, but it was probably one of those BBC produced shows from back in the day when the United State government - through PBS was more heavily subsidizing the BBC - but I digress) and it hit me that (besides subsidizing the BBC) the United State government was also subsidizing one of the largest, most successful corporate marketing enterprises in US history - think about it, 1 hour (or more!) a day of free targeted advertising courtesy (largely) of the United State government. I knew about social security and farm subsidies and the Chrysler bailout and all the rest, but it was Big Bird that really turned my head. "Life changing events" happen every day in people's lives; we need to be there with suggestions when they do. Their events and our suggestions will tend to accumulate to "critical mass" - and the wonderful thing about it all is that "critical mass" is reached in different ways and in different times for every individual. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
