Who Destroyed Your Neighborhood and How They Did It
Re-visiting a post from April 2020 - during 'Remote Learning'.
Recently The New Yorker came out with an article on classical education. The author does a pretty good job at analyzing the movements taking students away from the current obsessions with ‘inclusivity’, ‘DEI’, and other programs that indoctrinate, rather than educate.
One of the things missing from the article is that the Power Elite, before they can get to where they are now, have to ruin neighborhoods first. They have to crush the spirit of regular people before anyone of sound mind would allow the nonsense passing for ‘education’ today to take hold. There are a few ways to do this. Some of them are subtle, some aren’t.
Perhaps the most egregious example is the United States’ federal gov’t flooding the poorest neighborhoods of the USA with crack cocaine. During the Novel Coronavirus Era, I saw the destruction of ‘remote learning’ happening in real time. No one was reading, no one was trying, and it was an academic train wreck in real time. There was also no medical reason for it. It didn’t take me long to figure it out. Eventually I realized what was happening.
This was the connection I made at the time. I posted this on April 7th, 2020 for my classes. There was no written assignment attached. It was there simply to grab the intellectually curious minds out there, and maybe get the gears turning. Remember, a divided, broken people are much easier to manage. Caesar’s Gallic Wars goes into this - it provides the blueprint. It is also part of what was once a standard, Classical Education - the one mentioned in the linked article above.
A more modern version of ‘divide and conquer’ writ large:
I feel it's important to send this out to you today. Especially now, with the Novel Coronavirus working its way around, and government officials and Corporate Media talking heads telling me what I need to do in order to be safe. People often wonder why I have trip-wire sensitivity and inherent distrust for the Government Media complex and their statements. The story below is the first thing I think of when I ask myself "are these people trustworthy?" It is also the first thing I talk about when people get angry at me for not instantly bending the knee and doing as I'm told by Corporate Media / Gov't.
It's a dark chapter in American history, and it wasn't that long ago.
The conspiracy theory, in the 1980's and the 1990's, was that the government was responsible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with crack cocaine. If you spoke openly of this, you were called all sorts of names. One of the more common ones was "Conspiracy Theorist". The problem was, it was all true. A reporter, Gary Webb, figured out the entire thing. The chain of command, why the CIA was sending drugs into certain areas, which government officials were involved - Webb had it all mapped out and he wrote a series of articles on it.
As usual, the Power Elite, mostly the Government and the Corporate Media, went after Webb, not his story. They didn't go after what he said or the facts They wen't after him. Hard. Webb killed himself eventually, shooting himself in the head twice. Re-read that last sentence.
He eventually turned the whole thing into a book, called Dark Alliance. I own it.
From the above article in The Intercept:
"Gary Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.
Derided by some as conspiracy theory and heralded by others as investigative reporting at its finest, Webb’s series spread through extensive talk radio coverage and global availability via the internet, which at the time was still a novel way to promote national news."
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The above article is really good. I recommend it.
There are some good videos, documentaries and movies on this topic. Here are some of them:
Crack in the System: It is the go to documentary on who was responsible, and how they did it. By using Freeway Ricky Ross, an illiterate high school tennis star, as its lens, the documentary gives you chapter and verse on the path of destruction created by the Federal Government and the Media.
Gary Webb lays out the process in this video. This video was originally erased from Youtube until recently re-uploaded:
The story was made into a Hollywood movie, which, while only a cursory analysis, is actually pretty good:
After going through this material, I don't think there is any way you can, from this day forward, look at Corporate Media and / or government officals with anything but distrust.
If they're willing to not only cause this level of death and destruction, lie about it, and kill the messenger; what else are they willing to do?
Once you wake up you can never go back to sleep.
It is remarkable how prophetic C Wright Mills was. Written in 1956, his book The Power Elite predicted our present morass. American education has been destroyed by academic bureaucrats who are neither teachers, nor scholars. As Paul Fussell pointed out in his 1991 book BAD, Or the Dumbing of America, closing all of the "education" grad schools would be a good first step in improving American education. No amount of technological wizardry will ever be able to compete with a classical education composed of reading books you hold in your hands and writing papers in class--by hand. As both a parent watch my kids' education and a professor, I am horrified by the amount of time that is wasted on bad technology. Moreover, it is highly discriminatory to those without access to good computers and internet. Thanks Douglas, you are common sense is refreshing.
This is an excellent essay, Douglas. I had never heard about Gary and his courageous reporting. Your link to the video Crack in the System shows that YT removed the content, supposedly for a copyright dispute. Haha! Yeah we really believe that one.