We see, therefore, that political education must happen every minute of every day. The ruling classes always run their own political education every second of every day, planting their own ideologies into children, young people, adults, workers, and so on. Every day! Through the school system, entertainment, sports, advertisement, and other means, the ruling classes conduct their political education (indoctrination, in fact) in order to maintain their position as the rulers. And they would be foolish not to!
But this thing called political education, that is, in this context, revolutionary or liberating political education? A very violent process that thing!
Picture this. Our child takes their first breath, first steps, and begins noticing things. Our child sees the Sun moving around the Earth. That’s our child’s first education about the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. Thus far, our child’s eyes have independently given this information to our child, and our child is happy to observe all that.
In their mind, our child creates so many beautiful fantasies about this lovely rise of the Sun from the mountains all the way till it goes down into the mountains on the other side, and down under our child’s perfectly flat Earth, a process called “night”. At this point, our child has seemingly eternal peace. Life could never be more perfect.
But, somehow, some people start telling our child that the peace they’ve been enjoying has been based on ignorance: that, in fact, it’s the Earth that moves around the Sun and not vice-versa. This literally rips apart everything our child held dear for a long time, and they can never be the same again.
No human being ever accepts this new information so easily. Resistance is the first reasonable option. Violent resistance! Galileo Galilei is my witness! He tried teaching our child this thing, and he learned…
Political education? A very violent process that thing!
Our violated child later learns that, in fact, there are other planets, and they also orbit the Sun. As such, not everything that shines “up in the sky” is in fact a star. Our child’s Earth, therefore, is not the sole recipient of the Sun’s warmth and light – and gravity. Earth’s Monopoly is dead! This is another violation.
Political education? A very violent process that thing!
With growth, comes acceptance. Our child now understands “fully” that all the planets in the Solar System orbit the Sun, and the Sun is the only stationary object. Perfect! Finally, some peace!
But political education? A very violent process that thing!
When confronted with scientific material, people who wish to show off their “smartness” tend to start their arguments with “My Biology tells me that…”, “My Geography tells me that…”, etc. A very lazy approach to debates. Nonetheless, let’s attempt to follow the approach of these people who boast about their Grade 7 First Class With Merit certificates!
See, if your knowledge on the Solar System ends in 2005, your big song is “My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets”! But after 2006, that “hit” song of yours is outdated, because there are no longer nine planets in the Solar System. As such, your “My Geography tells me that” statement is unhelpful in 2022. Specifically, after August 2006!
Political education? A very violent process that thing!
Oh, did we say that the Sun is stationary? There’s about to be some more violence! As the learning process continues, our grown-up child begins to learn that the Sun is also moving, along with the planets, within the Milky Way Galaxy, a much bigger entity, the Solar System being merely a tiny little dot in comparison.
See how our child has grown from a place of peaceful ignorance and splendid illusions to a violent place of continuous knowledge?
And I keep saying…
Political education? A violent process that
thing!
And finally, finally, finally, some peace! Peace, because our fully grown-up child understands that 1) Earth and the planets orbit the Sun in the Solar System, 2) the Earth is not the only body in the Solar System, and 3) the Solar System also orbits the galactic centre, that is the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Did we say that the planets orbit the Sun? Oh, yes, that’s what we said. But, upon further scrutiny on this subject, more details come to the fore. We discover that the planets, in fact, are NOT orbiting the Sun. This must be repeated: The planets, and all the bodies within the Solar System, do NOT orbit the Sun!
Alright, this is getting more unsettling! But, as we have already seen many times, as illustrated above,
Political education? A very violent
process that thing!
