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no_apologiesIf you haven't checked out the first volume by now, I recommend that you do. Each of the 8 songs was something I selected in a certain way for an introduction towards the self-education about the reality that is there outside of the artificial one, through music. A group of musicians have become aware for longer than I have. I've found a really wide selection of songs that cover the same basic, real problems that just keep happening; war, greed, hate, racism, problems with the school system... There's songs about these topics, old and new!
I even found some that are more specific to recent versions of our troubles. The faces, trends, and smaller details change, yet the problems in the world remain the same.
This next volume covers over what I've been going on about over education, for quite a while. Academic achievement isn't much of a priority in most schools. (If that was true, then my dad would have still been a high school teacher, who was helping many to think for themselves. Long story short: there was no doubt someone or a group of people who heavily pressured the principal and some of the teachers about getting rid of my dad. The whole false accusations of sexual harassments by a very troubled teenage girl was crazy. Anita Hoge's ordeal to stand up to the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. government tyrants is something I will have to type about in a separate entry...)
Most schools, especially public schools, are indoctrination centers. It's more on shaping and molding the students' behaviors and way of thinking. They're not taught to think for themselves, but to comply to follow rules. And conform to social groups, and accept the myth that government is there to look out for us. There's a mix of partial truths and lies in addition to all that.
This is a major factor towards the very deceiving system. This is part of the govt. tyrants' design in splitting the family unit, along with the gradually deliberate dumb-down of us 99%.
Track List and Notes:
1. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" by Pink Floyd (1979)
("When we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children anyway they could... by pouring their derision upon anything we did, exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids." "We don't need your education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone." I had to have this one as the first song, because it's one that very much relates to what I read in Beverly K. Eakman's book I mentioned in a previous entry. This is one of my most favorite songs by Pink Floyd! I also must address; during the movie of "The Wall", what's shown are children in school conforming to be a certain way as a collective whole to the song. Group think. Herd mentality.)
2. "School Days" by Loudon Wainwright III (1970)
("In Delaware, when I was younger I would live the life obscene. In the Spring I had great hunger. I was Brando. I was Dean. Blaspheming, booted, blue-jeaned baby boy. Oh how I made them turn their heads." "You wicked wise men! Where's your wonder? You Pharisees one day will pay! See my lightning. Hear my thunder. I am truth. I know the way!" I believe Wainwright's lyrics express his intellectual rebelling as he went to the then all-boy's school St. Andrew's in Delaware, in which was the subject setting of the movie "Dead Poets Society", starring Robin Williams.)
3. "Chalk Dust Torture" by Phish (1992)
("Come stumble, my mirth beaten worker. I'm Jezmund, the family berserker." "'Cause I soak on the wrath that you didn't quite mask. I'm getting it clearly through alternate paths, or mixed in with the signal you're sending. But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned? As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned, and the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue." "Can't I live while I'm young?" "Jezmund, the family berserker." Those words, for me, stood out. This refers to what the cover image is. I'm glad I discovered this song.)
4. "Saint Joe on the School Bus" by Marcy Playground (1997)
(As if the teachers [who also got brainwashed to teach through the Delphi Technique, a method of psychological manipulation], all the rules/code of conduct, and the classwork wasn't enough, peer pressure and bullying has been another common cause of stress. "Saint Joe, he said he's never been dressed up like a woman. Saint Joe, they said your dad was gay. They said your mom, she's a whore." "Aunt Mary says they have the darkness there in their eyes.")
5. "Johnny Can't Read" by Don Henley (1982)
("But Johnny can't read. Summer is over, and he's gone to seed. (You know that) Johnny can't read. He never learned nothin' that he'll ever need. Well, is it teacher's fault? Oh no! Is it mommy's fault? Oh no! Is it society's fault? Oh no! Well, is it Johnny's fault? Ohhhhh nooooo! Couple years later, Johnny's on the run. Johnny got confused and he bought himself a gun. Well, he went and did something that he shouldn't oughta done. F.B.I. on his tail! Use a gun-go to jail." Don Henley points out out how distracting as well as stressing American schools have been. The character "Johnny" in this song is a lunkhead with no use for studies. He ends up in jail, since he was in no way prepared for adulthood. In addition to this, Henley's lyrics mention distractions outside of school that grab the character's attention more than wanting to learn anything in school.)
6. "Don't Stay in School" by BoyinaBand (2015)
("I was never taught how to get a job, but I can remember dissecting a frog. I wasn't taught how to pay tax, but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics." "I was never taught what laws there are. I was never taught what laws there are. Let me repeat, I was not taught the laws for the country I live in! But I know how Henry the 8th killed his women! Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice. I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light, but I was never taught my human rights! Apparently, there's thirty. Do you know them? I don't! Why the hell can't we both recite them by rote?" "They say it's not the kids. The parents are the problem. Then if you taught the kids to parent, that's the problem solved then!" This song is so on point!)
7. "Rotten to the Core" by The Speckles (2014)
("Don't you know that people don't buy the truth anymore?" "They changed the math that got us to the moon. Lobbyists drafted it before the states knew. It hasn't been tested, so they'll test it on you." "They're takin' us nowhere, No Child Left Behind. People (People), don't buy into Common Core!" "There's a Trojan horse comin', disguised as a test. We got data bein' mined to fill a rich man's chest." I've already looked into quite a bunch about Rotten Core. This song covers so much of what I already know about the current abomination for education.)
8. "What Did You Learn in School Today?" by Tom Paxton (1964)
("I learned that war is not so bad. I learned about the great ones we have had. We fought in Germany, and in France. And someday I might get my chance, and that's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school. And what did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? I learned our government must be strong. It's always right, and never wrong. Our leaders are the finest men, and we elect them again and again. And that's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school.")
9. "The Headmaster Ritual" by The Smiths (1985)
("Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools. Spineless swines, cemented minds. Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth. Same old suit since nineteen sixty two. He does the military two-step down the nape of my neck. I want to go home. I don't want to stay. Give up education as a bad mistake.")
10. "409 in Your Coffeemaker" by Green Day (This version from the UK Basket Case Single, 1994)
("I sit in the state of a daydream, with all of your words flying over my head. Even more time gets wasted in a daze. It should seem obvious to you. Your screams and cries are never going to work, and all of your time gets wasted in my daze. And I'm looking back now at where I have gone wrong, and why I could not seem to get along. My interests are longing to break through these chains, these chains that control my future's aim..." Green Day's front man vocalist and guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, must have not liked his teacher at all to put a degreaser disinfectant cleaner into his coffee. The lyrics of this song have a much deeper meaning than just whining about how boring school can be. Several creative people have had problems with the perfect order of the planned out, structured education system. They are forced to follow the rules and do exactly as they are told, while they clearly have other interests in mind. The creative twist of their minds is straightened out by strict school requirements. Kids are told that they are simply too lazy and uncommitted. After a while, they start to believe that. School doesn't always help young people choose their path in life, let alone encourage them to think for themselves.)
11. "High School Never Ends" by Bowling For Soup (2006)
("Four years, you think for sure that's all you've had to endure. All the total dicks, all the stuck-up chicks, so superficial, so immature. And then when you graduate, you take a look around and you say, 'Hey, wait! This is the same as where I just came from. I thought it was over, oh, that's just great.' The whole damned world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex. Who's got the money, who gets the honeys. Who's kinda cute and who's just a mess. And you still don't have the right look, and you don't have the right friends. Nothing changes but the faces, the names and the trends. High school never ends." I placed this song towards near the end of this playlist for a very good reason. After enduring through so much school time, what happens after you graduate? Not much changes! All this "social ladder" stuff, even the most ridiculous and trivial of things, is to keep so many of us distracted and ignorant as the system we're in doesn't really exist in our favor. I like how fun and satirical this song is, by the way.)
12. "Flowers are Red" by Harry Chapin (1978)
("And she said, 'Flowers are red. Green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.' But the little boy said, 'There are so many colors in the rainbow! So many colors in the morning sun. So many colors in the flower, and I see every one!' Well the teacher said, 'You're sassy. There's a way that things should be, and you'll paint flowers the way they are. So, repeat after me.' And she said, 'Flowers are red. Green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'" Even though what happened to the boy in the song is very sad, I appreciate Harry Chapin's positive and hopeful message at the end.)
I really, really like this playlist. Later on, I'll put together the third volume.
I even found some that are more specific to recent versions of our troubles. The faces, trends, and smaller details change, yet the problems in the world remain the same.
This next volume covers over what I've been going on about over education, for quite a while. Academic achievement isn't much of a priority in most schools. (If that was true, then my dad would have still been a high school teacher, who was helping many to think for themselves. Long story short: there was no doubt someone or a group of people who heavily pressured the principal and some of the teachers about getting rid of my dad. The whole false accusations of sexual harassments by a very troubled teenage girl was crazy. Anita Hoge's ordeal to stand up to the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. government tyrants is something I will have to type about in a separate entry...)
Most schools, especially public schools, are indoctrination centers. It's more on shaping and molding the students' behaviors and way of thinking. They're not taught to think for themselves, but to comply to follow rules. And conform to social groups, and accept the myth that government is there to look out for us. There's a mix of partial truths and lies in addition to all that.
This is a major factor towards the very deceiving system. This is part of the govt. tyrants' design in splitting the family unit, along with the gradually deliberate dumb-down of us 99%.
Track List and Notes:
1. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" by Pink Floyd (1979)
("When we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children anyway they could... by pouring their derision upon anything we did, exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids." "We don't need your education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone." I had to have this one as the first song, because it's one that very much relates to what I read in Beverly K. Eakman's book I mentioned in a previous entry. This is one of my most favorite songs by Pink Floyd! I also must address; during the movie of "The Wall", what's shown are children in school conforming to be a certain way as a collective whole to the song. Group think. Herd mentality.)
2. "School Days" by Loudon Wainwright III (1970)
("In Delaware, when I was younger I would live the life obscene. In the Spring I had great hunger. I was Brando. I was Dean. Blaspheming, booted, blue-jeaned baby boy. Oh how I made them turn their heads." "You wicked wise men! Where's your wonder? You Pharisees one day will pay! See my lightning. Hear my thunder. I am truth. I know the way!" I believe Wainwright's lyrics express his intellectual rebelling as he went to the then all-boy's school St. Andrew's in Delaware, in which was the subject setting of the movie "Dead Poets Society", starring Robin Williams.)
3. "Chalk Dust Torture" by Phish (1992)
("Come stumble, my mirth beaten worker. I'm Jezmund, the family berserker." "'Cause I soak on the wrath that you didn't quite mask. I'm getting it clearly through alternate paths, or mixed in with the signal you're sending. But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned? As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned, and the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue." "Can't I live while I'm young?" "Jezmund, the family berserker." Those words, for me, stood out. This refers to what the cover image is. I'm glad I discovered this song.)
4. "Saint Joe on the School Bus" by Marcy Playground (1997)
(As if the teachers [who also got brainwashed to teach through the Delphi Technique, a method of psychological manipulation], all the rules/code of conduct, and the classwork wasn't enough, peer pressure and bullying has been another common cause of stress. "Saint Joe, he said he's never been dressed up like a woman. Saint Joe, they said your dad was gay. They said your mom, she's a whore." "Aunt Mary says they have the darkness there in their eyes.")
5. "Johnny Can't Read" by Don Henley (1982)
("But Johnny can't read. Summer is over, and he's gone to seed. (You know that) Johnny can't read. He never learned nothin' that he'll ever need. Well, is it teacher's fault? Oh no! Is it mommy's fault? Oh no! Is it society's fault? Oh no! Well, is it Johnny's fault? Ohhhhh nooooo! Couple years later, Johnny's on the run. Johnny got confused and he bought himself a gun. Well, he went and did something that he shouldn't oughta done. F.B.I. on his tail! Use a gun-go to jail." Don Henley points out out how distracting as well as stressing American schools have been. The character "Johnny" in this song is a lunkhead with no use for studies. He ends up in jail, since he was in no way prepared for adulthood. In addition to this, Henley's lyrics mention distractions outside of school that grab the character's attention more than wanting to learn anything in school.)
6. "Don't Stay in School" by BoyinaBand (2015)
("I was never taught how to get a job, but I can remember dissecting a frog. I wasn't taught how to pay tax, but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics." "I was never taught what laws there are. I was never taught what laws there are. Let me repeat, I was not taught the laws for the country I live in! But I know how Henry the 8th killed his women! Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice. I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light, but I was never taught my human rights! Apparently, there's thirty. Do you know them? I don't! Why the hell can't we both recite them by rote?" "They say it's not the kids. The parents are the problem. Then if you taught the kids to parent, that's the problem solved then!" This song is so on point!)
7. "Rotten to the Core" by The Speckles (2014)
("Don't you know that people don't buy the truth anymore?" "They changed the math that got us to the moon. Lobbyists drafted it before the states knew. It hasn't been tested, so they'll test it on you." "They're takin' us nowhere, No Child Left Behind. People (People), don't buy into Common Core!" "There's a Trojan horse comin', disguised as a test. We got data bein' mined to fill a rich man's chest." I've already looked into quite a bunch about Rotten Core. This song covers so much of what I already know about the current abomination for education.)
8. "What Did You Learn in School Today?" by Tom Paxton (1964)
("I learned that war is not so bad. I learned about the great ones we have had. We fought in Germany, and in France. And someday I might get my chance, and that's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school. And what did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? I learned our government must be strong. It's always right, and never wrong. Our leaders are the finest men, and we elect them again and again. And that's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school.")
9. "The Headmaster Ritual" by The Smiths (1985)
("Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools. Spineless swines, cemented minds. Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth. Same old suit since nineteen sixty two. He does the military two-step down the nape of my neck. I want to go home. I don't want to stay. Give up education as a bad mistake.")
10. "409 in Your Coffeemaker" by Green Day (This version from the UK Basket Case Single, 1994)
("I sit in the state of a daydream, with all of your words flying over my head. Even more time gets wasted in a daze. It should seem obvious to you. Your screams and cries are never going to work, and all of your time gets wasted in my daze. And I'm looking back now at where I have gone wrong, and why I could not seem to get along. My interests are longing to break through these chains, these chains that control my future's aim..." Green Day's front man vocalist and guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, must have not liked his teacher at all to put a degreaser disinfectant cleaner into his coffee. The lyrics of this song have a much deeper meaning than just whining about how boring school can be. Several creative people have had problems with the perfect order of the planned out, structured education system. They are forced to follow the rules and do exactly as they are told, while they clearly have other interests in mind. The creative twist of their minds is straightened out by strict school requirements. Kids are told that they are simply too lazy and uncommitted. After a while, they start to believe that. School doesn't always help young people choose their path in life, let alone encourage them to think for themselves.)
11. "High School Never Ends" by Bowling For Soup (2006)
("Four years, you think for sure that's all you've had to endure. All the total dicks, all the stuck-up chicks, so superficial, so immature. And then when you graduate, you take a look around and you say, 'Hey, wait! This is the same as where I just came from. I thought it was over, oh, that's just great.' The whole damned world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex. Who's got the money, who gets the honeys. Who's kinda cute and who's just a mess. And you still don't have the right look, and you don't have the right friends. Nothing changes but the faces, the names and the trends. High school never ends." I placed this song towards near the end of this playlist for a very good reason. After enduring through so much school time, what happens after you graduate? Not much changes! All this "social ladder" stuff, even the most ridiculous and trivial of things, is to keep so many of us distracted and ignorant as the system we're in doesn't really exist in our favor. I like how fun and satirical this song is, by the way.)
12. "Flowers are Red" by Harry Chapin (1978)
("And she said, 'Flowers are red. Green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.' But the little boy said, 'There are so many colors in the rainbow! So many colors in the morning sun. So many colors in the flower, and I see every one!' Well the teacher said, 'You're sassy. There's a way that things should be, and you'll paint flowers the way they are. So, repeat after me.' And she said, 'Flowers are red. Green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'" Even though what happened to the boy in the song is very sad, I appreciate Harry Chapin's positive and hopeful message at the end.)
I really, really like this playlist. Later on, I'll put together the third volume.
