Where did you get this question from? MSNBC? CNN? HuffPo?
. . .
Yeah answering this question is admitting that you believe in some things which may not be true.
It "presupposes facts not in evidence", as Perry Mason would say.
But if you should ask the question, "why are people shooting each other?" Well of course we know that they are.
I sure as hell don't blame it on the schools or the teachers. I've been to 14 different schools
and I've known too many teachers in my life.
My opinion (and it's my opinion only for I have no proof) is that the sensationalist nature of Television media has driven people to the edge of sanity. That's the education that I think is causing our problems.
If people see something often enough eventually it becomes commonplace to them. It's not as horrifying or unbelievable or undoable as something more strange and rare.
Day after day, common people are confronted with dozens of multimillion-dollar TV ads tempting them to eat and eat and eat. Half the people in America are quite overweight. Coincidence? Well the people designing these ads are experts on human psychology and they're using it against us to make money.
Day after day people are confronted with multimillion-dollar movies of people who solve their problems with guns and violence. Hey, even Superman solves his problems with violence, everybody thinks he's Justified, and everybody wants to be Superman. Compared to an unarmed person that gun makes you Superman.
This is the kind of education that is repetitive and relentless and horribly effective, and basically unavoidable to a nation of Television Watchers.
As for our "
failed educational system", I remember back in 1960 when they were showing us that television would be the greatest educational tool ever created, and that all people would eventually go to school simply by watching television.
Instead we fostered the system where education for profit by commercial interests teaches people to be less and less sensitive to the things which should really matter. It teaches them to concentrate on the things which are most easily to Pander. Gluttony, lust, greed, hatred, violence.
It's not a matter of educational failure but the fact of too much educational success in the wrong hands.