Education is a Human Right. Let's do it!

There are (at least) three sources for most people's worldviews in the world.

One is what is absorbed from parents and others as small children, which forms the basic personality and opinions of people on the deepest unconscious levels of the mind.

Another is education, which is controlled by a subculture I call 'academia' which has it's own agenda and control algorithms which limit the mind of the individual who has spent massive amounts of time in that subculture. But this is not necessarily the strongest force holding humanity in mental thrall.

Lastly, there is what I call, 'common knowledge'. Common knowledge is the bulk of the data which most people run their minds with, and when it changes, everything changes. It evolves human society regardless of both the unconscious childhood absorption of bad data and the academic subculture. It is absorbed by people on another level, and changes people's viewpoints profoundly. While the GIGO (garbage in/garbage out)of common knowledge allows much of the worse behavior in our world, it evolves as enough people change or absorb better data into the 'common knowledge', and it's little brother, which we call 'fads', causes change in mass numbers of people very quickly indeed although such changes don't last long. All 'isms' seek to change 'common knowledge', all capitalists try to get their products into 'common knowledge', and politicians seek to manipulate 'common knowledge' through propaganda and campaign ads.

When something is promoted that would benefit all the people, all the masses, it becomes unstoppable when it becomes common knowledge, and over time, it will be implemented. It is the way that people sidestep the manipulations of politicians, capitalists, religious fanatics, etc, and bring something new and better into our cultures.

When I got this email from a long time friend of mine, an active promoter of human rights and freedoms, I decided to promote it. There may be a sliver of time here where such efforts can bare fruit, if only to get the idea into the 'common knowledge'.

I am forwarding this request to all the groups I am a member of. I
think this approach is reasonable at this time. Thomas is an old time
(30 year) friend of mine and a promoter of human freedom.

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Hey,

I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if you've
heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential
campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama
Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in
America."

I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote for
it. The title is: Education- A Human Right. You can read and vote for
the idea by clicking on the following link:

http://www.change. org/ideas/ view/education- _a_human_ right

The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration
on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying
campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading
nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at
becoming policy.

Thanks for the support,

Thomas