Bullshit Politics Implies Bullshit Education

There is some war-mongering going on with the BJP talking of sending the army to Pakistan to root out terrorists.

As far as we all know, the Taliban is taking over large swathes of Pakistan. Will the Indian army go to Swat to fight them?

Why talk bullshit? – but then, bullshit is what this election is all about.

The ToI has a thoughtful piece on how all politics is now local, and there are no truly “national issues” this time.

Actually, the only national issue – the issue that affects the entire nation – is The Governing Principle: that is, socialism or Liberalism (in the classical and European and not the modern American sense).

But this is debarred.

And let us not forget that this central issue of Principles is also a moral issue – the morality of gainful trade versus the morality of reservations, handouts, protectionism and bureaucracy.

The nation is losing a lot from the Bombay high court’s refusal to hear the Indian Liberal Group’s PIL against the legislation that outlaws liberalism from the “socialist democracy"; a PIL that is pending 10 years or more. SV Raju, who heads the ILG, fears he will be dead before the case is heard. He is over 70 now.

So Think!

Don’t vote.

Protest!

And if you have any interest in “education” do read my column, “De-mystifying Knowledge,” the full text of which is published here, under the banner of Liberty Institute.

It shows how the search for knowledge with which to survive in The Market is not so difficult a task, especially for the poor, and why The State is certainly not required to assist the natural process of the acquisition and transfer of real knowledge.

It argues that our The State is actually ignorant. They cannot be allowed to teach. Rather, they should be asked to learn.

It shows that the Amartya Sen – Manmohan Singh recipe of State education in a closed economy is a recipe for disaster.

And “thought control.”

We Don’t Need This Education.