“Knowledge is Not for the Common Person”
Some time in the 1960’s, the United States Government began a policy that would affect most Americans: controlling intelligence. America is one of the least educated countries in the world community, and it is not by accident that the level of education for Americans today is getting lower and lower.
Not long ago — during the ’40s & ’50s, and into the early 1960’s — our educational system had the goal of making America the most educated country in the world. At the time it was. Our school system had the ability to make most everyone as intelligent as Einstein.
Everyone wanted to be a doctor, scientist, lawyer, researcher or astronaut. It would be possible for everyone to be very intelligent.
Our Government, however, realized that it would not be a good idea that everyone be that smart:
“You don’t need a bunch of rocket scientists and people who are smart enough to build nuclear bombs, because it would be dangerous and no one would want the Joe jobs,” summarized the proponents of intelligence control.
“No one would want to be a truck driver or factory worker or work a simple desk job.”
“Who would dig ditches?” our homeless-vet friend Jim laughed crazily.
So, today, only selected people are allowed to have more than average intelligence. You’d think that, with the technology, computers and knowledge available today, people would be much smarter than any of the past generations. However, that is not allowed; thinking is not allowed.
Today it’s like the Medieval times or Dark Ages, where people weren’t allowed to read. Americans today are only allowed to have a certain level of intelligence, although our educational system is capable of making anyone and everyone intelligent enough to understand higher calculus and solving complex mathematical formulas or even understand quantum theory.
The average American has no concept of E=mc2, but that equation could have been taught to become second-nature to them.
In order to have control of knowledge, it cannot be for everyone. It would be dangerous if everyone knew how to fly and did fly an airplane. That would ruin the airline industry. There would be no way to keep up with the traffic.
Because most people drive to work it ruined the train line industry; many lines went under. So you can’t have everyone learn to fly an airplane, even though everyone could be taught to do so. Only the pilot of the airliner has to know how to fly; all the other passenger are just along for the ride.
NASA is another good example. During the moon flights, there were lots of jobs for scientists and researchers and there was a demand for those that could fill the jobs. Now — because of all the cutbacks, and because once a project is done, so is the work — jobs are short lived. Today, some former astronauts are truck drivers, no doubt.
In the future, knowledge will be far more advanced than it is today; but the average American will still be of average intelligence. Knowledge is not for the common person. A Catholic monk, Martin Luther, was excommunicated from the church simply because he translated a bible to German from Latin so the common person could read it.
And, remember how the Catholic church dealt with Galileo? He was “excommunicated” by the Pope for proposing a heliocentric theory of the universe.
Isn’t it interesting how that word ex”-communicate” has come full-circle, from the 16th Century to today’s so-called “freedom-of-information” and “mass-communications” modern era; where free thinking is condemned just as it was in the Middle Ages.
Nikola Tesla is another genius “excommunicated” or banished from his profession, shunned and shamed. During the turn of the 20th Century he was one of America’s greatest scientists. He invented the wall socket your computer is plugged into and your car’s ignition switch, for example.
But Tesla was banned from the scientific community and could not get a job in any of the research labs simply because he wanted to make certain technology available to the common person. He was literally erased from history and fell into obscurity. Only recently has Dr. Tesla been given credit for his great contributions made to society.
It’s no different today. Knowledge is not for the common person. Those who make knowledge available to the common person are dealt with in the same manner: they are excommunicated from the scientific community.
Knowledge is closely-guarded, but the Internet has made that very difficult. Just type out on a search engine: “Stealth Bomber Technology” and you will find many sites with all the details. “The Internet is the great evil!” governments are today arguing. That’s because Cyberspace makes knowledge available to everyone and takes knowledge out of the control of the few.
Imagine what would have happened if Galileo had access to the Internet.
Indeed, John and myself , and even “crazy” James believe an even “higher” education such as the World Wide Web will foil those who hoard knowledge for their own purposes.
But beware: governments would like nothing better than to crack all codes, have the keys to all encryption programs, and force companies to turn over all their information.
The ancient fight over the control of knowledge has begun anew. Be prepared.”
“Too Many Rocket Scientists” ~by New Orleans astronomer John T. Brown (1948–2011); editor ©ThomasBalzac|www.vieuxcarretimes.com
