A Splinter in My Mind

Do you ever get the feeling that something is terribly wrong with the world? I do. I've been getting that feeling for most, if not all of my life.

A lot has gone through my mind this morning. It started with listening to a Sistah Vegan podcast. There was mention of a rehabilitation program for troubled youth that placed the children on a vegan diet for six weeks. The children's grades improved, they were calmer, and less tired. It makes sense to me that a program like that should be funded if it benefits the health and well-being of young people, so why wasn't it? Why is it that our "educated" society is so illogical?

I want talk about education for a minute. When people talk about getting an education, they mean an institutional education. They mean going to place that trains you in particular subjects then gives you a piece of paper that says you know what you've studied. However, that does not mean that you have common sense. It doesn't even know that you know what you've studied. How many people with a high school diploma remember everything from high school? Some people just get through it. Also, where does this education come from? Are we truly learning facts, or are we learning regurgitated BS? Who decided that there were four food groups and the meat and dairy had to be a part of it? Why wasn't TRUE American history taught? Why do some black people believe that our history began with slavery? I have spent a lot my adult life re-learning. I will spend the rest of my life as a student of life. A lot of so-called educated people are just now learning what the "uneducated" have been tell them for years.

Our "educated" society is not smart enough to realize the breast feeding is natural, that testing harmful chemicals on animals is not necessary to know that it will hurt humans (I could go on about that), and that harming our planet harms us all.