You remind me of the story of four blind men trying to describe an elephant. Each had a different idea of what it was and none were correct.
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Old woman or young woman? Even though you can see one or the other, you cannot see both at the same time.
We learn things in stages. We are not born knowing how to talk and walk, we must learn these things. All learning goes through four stages:
1) unconscious imcompetent: we don't know how to drive a car, we are not aware of our ignorance, we don't even know what a car is
2) conscious incompetent: one day, we discover what a car is and what driving is... but we still are unable to drive
3) conscious competent: later, after some education and practice, we learn how to drive but it requires a lot of concentration
4) unconscious competent: after much practice, we drive without thinking about it (some better than others)
Just because you can't see what the education system is turning out doesn't mean that the idea is invalid. It just means you're at step 1. This is the hardest stage to overcome. It is where a lot of denial helps to soothe the frightened psyche.
Propaganda and brainwashing are not practiced because they don't work. If you were a victim of really good propaganda and brainwashing, how would you know it? You wouldn't, that's the whole idea. You believe the propaganda because of your thorough brainwashing. THAT is the result of our education system.
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