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“In 2022, due to the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal newcomers, with thousands more arriving every day under the Biden Adminstration, New York City had been transformed. There was no coherent culture, social contract, understanding of how one gets through a day. It was a circus of confusion, entitlement, aggression, and chaos. All of it performed upside down.”
-Dr. Naomi Wolf
*An important video-essay by Dr. Naomi Wolf on the illegal immigration psyop. You know why no one wants to see the truth or tell the truth? Because doing so requires living according to and abiding by the laws of truth, not propaganda and ideology. Your life has to change and people don’t want their life to change—at least not in ways that require them to walk away from people and things that no longer match or fit or align with the truth. So they choose to stay the same, feign ignorance or righteousness about corruption, and begin to stand behind and zealously defend the lie. They also turn their back on people who choose to tell the truth.
As someone who taught for years at the university level, in all kinds of schools and programs in NYC (in my early days I taught ESL students) I experienced this complete protection and coddling of the student that Wolf describes first hand. As teachers, we are not allowed to require anything of students and/or to enforce our grading policies. We were constantly scrutinized and exploited and harassed by the department. We were paid next to nothing. We had no health benefits or sick days. We never got a raise or full-time status. The syllabus was a make-believe contract that meant nothing and was largely ignored. The teacher follows it, not the student. For years, I spent my entire summers and Christmas breaks designing courses and syllabi, which was very hard work and unpaid. It was the bane of my existence despite the fact that I loved the film courses I taught in later years and designed them all myself. I designed many unique courses based on my personal research, a saving grace in what was otherwise a grueling work load since I was also writing books and articles full time, making films, and often in graduate school. The university departments required these syllabi and had to approve them at the start of every semester. So many students just did whatever they wanted, knowing the department and dean would protect them and penalize the teachers. You were not allowed to demand excellence or even class participation, timely work, and attendance, though the syllabus states that you do, and you must! Things like checking attendance, late arrivals, and submitting midterm evaluations, were required, yet met with drama and constant retaliation from the students and the dean alike. It was all a mind fuck.
Adult student misses 20 classes that only meet once a week? It’s not their fault. They struggle with anxiety and are afraid to get on a subway to get to a 1pm class on time. Student never once said a word in a 3 hour class even though the department says participation is required in a small seminar class and is worth 30% of their grade? Not their fault, they don’t like talking and are sleepy in the morning (12pm is the morning, apparently). Student is chronically late to class? Not their fault, they have a time-management problem. It was like the Wild West—a constant duel you were not allowed to win if you wanted to keep your precious shit-paying teaching job. I worked my ass off, was a dedicated teacher, but was always at odds with the university system, admin rules, hypocrisy, and flaky, manipulative students. Anyone, teaching the past 20 years, especially in elite NYC universities, where parents and chairs coddle the students in-exchange for insane tuition fees, will tell the exact same story—or worse--unless they have resigned to playing the game because they get to indoctrinate students in-exchange for spreading their ideological agendas.
Again, a truth problem.
Having said all this, I did manage to get through to many students, and my classes were extremely popular and beloved. That doesn’t mean I think my students worked hard or knew how think. I received many beautiful letters from students over the years. But I was never dealing with a full deck, the caliber was always low, standards and requirements were extremely low, and at best, I’d have 1 or 2 truly smart or hard working students a semester. Not necessarily both. A student could be smart/thoughtful and do nothing all semester, or vice versa. So
I can only imagine what is going on in the horror show that is the K-12 public school system, one of the focus points of Wolf’s illegal immigration essay. I have spent a great deal of time reading about it the past five years, and thinking about it from many different angles (one of them being the COVID psyop), a number of which Wolf discusses in her excellent essay. With all the multi-pronged threats against children at work now, if I had a child, I would 100% home school them. There is no way in hell, I would send my child off to school. I myself was deeply unhappy in school as a child. So many wealthy parents can afford to do home school, and yet, they feed their children to the wolves. And to iPhones. Their children do not belong to them. They belong to the Globalist State, the Board of Ed, and to the Big-tech media apparatus.
