Market with active support from religion -as
signs of blessing, have nurtured aspects of usefulness for herd to be kept
occupied and controlled. Hence whatsoever doesn’t fall into this matrix of usefulness
is deemed useless pursuit. Usefulness is clearly about extractive mindset -that
market capitalism sustains on; it is quantified by money and power of control
over herd. This then is showcased as success for which we are expected to
strive for. Primitive religions authenticate these as outcome of specific blessings
that is being granted. So, more money, power and godforsaken fame is to be
latched with god returning the favor to obedient devotee. Hence the stampede to
please and obey.
It is in this context education is qualified by
usefulness. Thus, we have younger herd members prepared to replicate the
template of success by carefully regurgitating useful education into money
churning enterprise. They compete and waste, and essentially become threat to
all that is cherished. Market defines usefulness in education hence create
goals to be attained. Religion works to authenticates these as god’s will. The more
the young mind is goal oriented more extractive mindset settles in destroying
the potential and capacity of the human. They become a cog in the competition
to prove their worth in the extractive system. The existential impasse we are
in can easily be traced to these devious ways of control. TedCruz is an American
embarrassment on humanity. His extractive mind emblemizes the threat. Extractive
mind essentially lacks qualities that define human, compassion being one. No one
anywhere anyplace in the world should be taking loan to learn. Education must
be free, if ever it should be minimally charged. Student in debt is a failure of society.
Most importantly education must strive to create self-aware individuals, inquisitive
to learn for knowing and using latest advancements to understand. Whether what they
find interesting to be pursued or researched further must be decided by individuals
and their aptitude. Society is expected to nurture the minds as presences to
probe and sense the reality and subtleties. Awareness increases depth to observation. Fields of expertise are just tools.
Only an evolved society produces such presences which therefore becomes common place, a norm. In primitive societies such presences are exceptions hence claims of blessedness or great souls. In these presences there are
no binaries of usefulness and uselessness. These presences are excitements of
life expressing what it means to be alive. It is these presences over the
centuries that carried humans from caves to the sophisticated comforts and
value systems to explore. Education is being conscious to all that connects lifeforms
and systems at work. What is useless in extractive system is useful in life
nurturing systems. In nature there is nothing useless. That ofcourse doesn’t mean
carbon trapped in likes of TedCruz is in useful state.
