Honor Student

hon-or stu-dent [n obs] one who successfully resists an educational systems effort to eradicate independent thought; SEE TROUBLEMAKER REBEL UNPERSON OUTLAW2020 will not be remembered as the year American public education achieved its true goal - the creation of a citizenry unable to think or live independently - but it should be. While well-intentioned theorists have for decades been recommending policy and ballot-box solutions to political threats Americas public-school progeny were quietly being trained in the background to render such bandages irrelevant. Political systems are a product of prevailing philosophy which is a product of individual thinking which is a product of how individuals have been taught to think. Political officialdom results from the education that made it possible and no power on earth - no patriotic slogan no congressional bill or executive order no most important ever election - can alter that truth.Education is the wellspring from which a nation ascends - or the quagmire into which it sinks.Through the lens of fiction Honor Student proposed in 1989 that Americas future could be salvaged from within its educational system by students whose not-yet-subservient minds still functioned autonomously. Today at so late a stage in freedoms decline salvation from within is likely Americas - and therefore the worlds - sole remaining alternative to a totalitarian Second Dark Age.