… of course the problem in the USSA would be that the vast majority of “born heres” are probably not proficient in English. The upside of large groups of students not being able to attend school due to an inability to use the English language would: 1) lower school populations significantly, 2) remove large numbers of students with behavioral problems thereby lowering school crime rates, 3) improve the teacher to student ratio, and 4) with 1-3 being the case, improve test scores.
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What say you Dr. Scarmoge to the following idea. Perchance, 1) the confusion of languages in the educational environment to prevent those now rare pedagogical events where an educator might actually excite a student or students? and 2) While creating chaos in the classroom (and in the library) and sadly (in the bathroom?) let’s allow for the parents of these children (In the event that they actually have a mother and a father (rather than some dysgenic pairing of “genders”) to “Bark at the news”, vent their outrage. all while we quietly manage the semantic drift in the host language itself? I could go further of course… but then that’s what happens, when you can pay attention!!!
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I heard on a podcast posted here the other day that the ousted Syrian family started learning Russian several years ago to facilitate the cultural transition. The idea of Russian language proficiency for educational advancement must have been in the works for a while.
Where I live in south Texas there are private bilingual learning centers for Spanish and English. The schools pay a special dividend to bilingual teachers.
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@Bill10558 I agree.
Allegedly, Bashar Al Assad and his family have been learning the Russian language over the last 6-7 years. I dare say the move to Russia was well planned ahead of time. The man’s an ophthalmologist not a dictator. Qadaffi and Hussein were dictators who ruled over warring factions with an iron fist. Look what happened to them. He held on long enough for Trump, Putin, Erdogan, and Netanyahu to cut their various deals with one another. 2025 should reveal the details of those ‘transactions’. It’s a big club and Assad wasn’t in it. He was merely a ‘place holder’.
Exit stage right.
Next item on the agenda, from the latest “Tidbits”:
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Maybe he’ll even get his own West End show to resume his original career!
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He already is “one of the boys” and very successful…he’ll not need employment, just hobbies to pass the time.
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I think that the “confusion of languages” results in the undermining of the ability to, by some method, DETERMINE meaning. Determine here being used in the Peircean sense of determine. Participatory practice of the determination of meaning within an Ethical, Humane Community of Inquiry most certainly (should be) the most important experience of schooling.
Sadly, as you pointed out in your last vidchat question, if one has a new symbolic order forcefully inserted into consciousness (i.e. one is UNNATURALLY forced into an environment and forced - via The Method of Authority - to accept [the way of life] that environment [a False Representation of a World] will necessarily induce a reaction of violence in response to the fracturing of self. Violence - the Duct Tape for a fractured Self.
I would like to believe that we can somehow, each one of us, manage Semantic Drift … but I don’t think that possible.
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I feel impelled to jot a few nonrandom thoughts down here[ Teacher’s correction: “Here, I feel impelled to jot down a few nonrandom thoughts”].
While determination of Meaning is certainly Our quest, if merely nascent, in this Age, it seems that we may have another challenge before us to face first. That is, or may be, the quivering or changing of Form that, inexorably , is encompassing what we have perceived to be the “world”, for example encoded in the recent battle of the sexes, now known as the 43+ genders. Also, as the entire world seems to be altering its basic financial and computatorial " 'scape", any sought agreement or concensus ought necessarily be subject to an analysis, or similar, that might have to heterodyne over a perhaps unreasonable period of time.
As one who landed in this Planet slightly unprepared for the unnaturalness of it-all and the forced socialization into what appeared to be a ridiculous and upside-down Mould, I certainly, like many I presume, reacted with rebellion. Now this may have advanced a reaction into self-loathing, and perhaps a violent reaction or two( unto self or “other”); however, this really could be viewed as an intended result of the forced socialization( ideally fully realized by age 5) itself. I taught myself to respond , rather than merely react.
As for semantic drift, I resolve to roll with the punches, even if K.O.'d , and to go with the flow. The world changes, and this planet( Meaning the people in it) are still loony. It is clear that I, nor anyone else, will ever be able to catch up to what is obviously madness.
This does not mean that we cannot teach or guide or give leadership, this only means that we must work smarter with more effort; this does not mean that “others”[ there are no “others”] will not “learn”( as it is laughingly called). The very fabric of Reality is being changed, and the so-called “undermining” is a feature, not a passing bug. We, as teachers and healers, must have the strength to, not oppose or combat, but to resolve this.
And now I shall reel in my mind.
Treat me gently, kind Sirs.
BTW, the USA does not have an official language, by any lawful determination.
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“They” atomize everyone; blame them for loneliness.
All the while; flooding the narratives, with all-embracing loneliness memes.
All in the vast globalized seas, of a Catherine Austin Fitts…
superstratum of superstrata-super-cluster-****'d…
black-ops, psywar-stacked-operations.
As the Cheshire Cat says, “We’re all mad here.”.
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… I did not make the claim in this post (and to the best of my memory in any other post I’ve made on Giza) English to be the “Official Language” of the USSA.
… in connection with this thread … I would argue the claim that determination of meaning is simply a matter of “voting” is false.
Well of course you didn’t; I did not mean to imply that you did. I just meant to write the point down, as a lot of people haven’t actually thought that one through. It irks and terrifies me, by example, that the likes of the “great and fantastic” General Flynn have called for the USSSA to have one state religion, namely “Christianity”. So, sometimes, I rant rather spiritedly.
Determination, or delimiting, of Meaning can naturally never be a mere question of voting or caesarial decree, even as rigorous process and experimentation design of pragmatic inquiry must perforce always need be undertaken. My thoughts, however inadequately proferred, go, in this instance perhaps too audaciously, to an existential( this not[ necessarily] in the philosophical sense of the word) , and therefore critical, need for new methodologies of such inquiry, for example, the employment of exotic technologies like Kirlian photography, or also even Psi( to mean any psychic mode of insight such as clairvoyance or even “inner knowing”). This may indeed not be a situation we can manage our way out of.
Just as a comment on the subject matter: Apart from my home country I have lived and worked in 5 other countries. The first thing I ensured, in pure self interest, was to become fluent in the language of the country as quickly as possible. It took some effort from my side but it was very possible to achieve and I managed to fit in quite nicely.
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