Like a blight on burgeoning brains the pervasive suppression of honest reflection unbridled inquiry and healthy dissent thrives behind the shield of assumed scholastic virtue that runs cover for the program that seeks to prevent genuine erudition and wisdom; thrives behind the sacrosanct guise of an ostensibly enlightened curricular system; behind that peerless indoctrination agent masquerading as education with its dedication to teaching what to think instead of how; behind that go-to tool for inculcating rules and instilling conditioned submission as young minds are drilled in gov-approved schools where conformity enforcement and the ingestion of unquestioned information are the primary goals of so much robotic orthodoxy-propping regurgitation in schools where lip-service praise is paid to the laudably liberal if in-theory-only principles of uncorralled curiosity and free-ranging thought while in practice these are seen as signs of defiance as the penned-in sheep are routinely taught the enormous rewards of blind compliance alongside its inverse the steep cost of deviance from belief in the big lies and myths that serve to legitimize state crime — the lesson of lessons being the blessings of obedience and the curse that awaits those who think out of line.
This poem was revised on July 21, 2025.
Unfortunately the rewards of institutionalised thinking are huge monetarily and money is power and status.
So the beneficiaries of such are never faced with any introspection.