'Education' these days
Is about 'pure' information
And by information
I mean presenting facts verbatim
And by pure i mean it's taken
As truth with no contemplation
That behind all this initiation
Is nothing more than total indoctrination
Into cookie-cutter patriotic nations
I mean even the word information
Is unsettling with reiteration
Think of it
like this
Information
In-formation
IN. FORMATION.
Conspiracy? Could be.
Though that is another story.
For now lets call it coincidental consideration.
To keep in mind what's lacking
In a cold calculated system of education
I ask you and i beg
Where's the social validation
That everyone is different
In the way they treat a situation
That people are so vast and varied when it comes to inspiration
And still we wonder why kids in school
Get bullied, beaten and mistaken
Treated by their peers as some kind of social retardation
By other young minds bored and rampart with frustration
From a system failing day by day
Generation by generation
I mean is it no surprise from a society with a hellebent fixation
Upon competition
Survival of fittest
And human exploitation?
Of mantra screaming profit, selfishness, and lack of real cooperation
Nature over nurture and people under nations
That leave us standing divided and alone amongst as sea of potential collaboration?
And yet we're told to sing our anthems of patriotic proclamations
That we live in lands of freedom, justice, love and consideration.
So please believe me when i see
Your sense of self worth and participation
As something lacking emergent notions
When it's simply in-formation
What we need is real change via total non-cooperation
And to rest assured that our minds, and our childrens mind, and future generations
Are part of real solutions
And also full of inspiration
To take hold of our own thoughts
And redefine the importance
Of something we've all lost
Called self education
So please don't simply repeat after me
Don't seek my words as your savior or salvation
Just find your version of what it means to simply be
And forget what others see
As being in-formation
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM UTC
'Education' these days
Is about 'pure' information
And by information
I mean presenting facts verbatim
And by pure i mean it's taken
As truth with no contemplation
That behind all this initiation
Is nothing more than total indoctrination
Into cookie-cutter patriotic nations
I mean even the word information
Is unsettling with reiteration
Think of it
like this
Information
In-formation
IN. FORMATION.
Conspiracy? Could be.
Though that is another story.
For now lets call it coincidental consideration.
To keep in mind what's lacking
In a cold calculated system of education
I ask you and i beg
Where's the social validation
That everyone is different
In the way they treat a situation
That people are so vast and varied when it comes to inspiration
And still we wonder why kids in school
Get bullied, beaten and mistaken
Treated by their peers as some kind of social retardation
By other young minds bored and rampart with frustration
From a system failing day by day
Generation by generation
I mean is it no surprise from a society with a hellebent fixation
Upon competition
Survival of fittest
And human exploitation?
Of mantra screaming profit, selfishness, and lack of real cooperation
Nature over nurture and people under nations
That leave us standing divided and alone amongst as sea of potential collaboration?
And yet we're told to sing our anthems of patriotic proclamations
That we live in lands of freedom, justice, love and consideration.
So please believe me when i see
Your sense of self worth and participation
As something lacking emergent notions
When it's simply in-formation
What we need is real change via total non-cooperation
And to rest assured that our minds, and our childrens mind, and future generations
Are part of real solutions
And also full of inspiration
To take hold of our own thoughts
And redefine the importance
Of something we've all lost
Called self education
So please don't simply repeat after me
Don't seek my words as your savior or salvation
Just find your version of what it means to simply be
And forget what others see
As being in-formation
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