I can also state that in 88 you had already come through K-12 and perhaps some college that was steeped in the prussian education system. They largely had tried to get you to believe and do certain things
I have to admit to a great deal of hostility towards the educational system by the time I enlisted (including 3 semesters of college, which I considered to be a joke)
I think I did a great deal of self-education by reading military history ; as well as by contrasting what one reporter would say on air with other sources. It was easy to see even before the Internet that the media was a pack of socialist liars...IF one took the time to compare what they said against the course of events.
I think that our personalities determine a great deal of our world-view...I admit to the possibility that my tendency to view the point of a bayonet as the best response to tyranny colored my experience in service ;>
Yeah, I was a voracious self educator... I was always learning and doing new things. The bulk of that was outside of the school system. I was a pretty crappy student in the education system's point of view. I learned the absolute minimum I needed to pass and I often had Cs and other things. Meanwhile, I was generally in the back of the class filling up notebooks with my own ideas.
So yes I was a very crappy student in the "traditional" sense of the word.
So I can relate to what you are saying.
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One thing I was going to say after I replied above...
"It's easy for them to feel safe in telling you to think for yourself if they are fairly confident they have conformed the way you are likely to think"
You and I it sounds like were aberrations.
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I think people that do think for themselves are a distinct minority
I don't know if you ever read the Why are people so fucking stupid? series of essays, but intelligence is just one of the assets we need to survive as a species.
We are a social race, and the ability to work and p,lay well with others is important to that survival as well.
Which is annoying to free thinkers LOL
I've got an interesting book on my Kindle on why intelligence isn't such a great deal for most smart people; I'll see if I can dig up the reference
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