Musings
From The Heart
An
Essay A Day For A Year
By
Roe
Day
113 April 22, 2012
World
Travel: A True Education
Part
3
When we travel the world we
are constantly confronted with the primary human ideas and paradigms, and the
primary human emotions and the primary academic disciplines. All people possess levels of neurosis, of
mental and emotional trauma and
deprivation, of unfulfilled needs, of ignorance, of the results of womb
and birth and child abuse, and of the lack of education and basic
acculturation. All people possess levels
of hatred, of class division, of educational ignorance and division, and of the
lack of basic morality (personal), basic
ethics (communal), and basic manners and societally acceptable behavior. All
people possess levels of brainwashing and ignorant ideas of power and
obedience, of patriotism and nationalism, of acceptance and obedience to the
God-President-Governor- Policeman-Daddy chain, and of fear and loathing of the
“other”. All people possess levels of selfishness and self-centeredness ad
egocentricity and human-centric behavior and ideology. All people possess levels of a religious and
spiritual bias or vacuum, or religious and spiritual brainwashing, and all
people live with levels of pride and arrogance and hostility towards Life in
general, mostly manifested against the “other” that we feel is different and to
blame.
A formal university
education hopes to address the various levels of human pain and ignorance and
psychological and emotional and experiential ignorance and sickness outlined
above, but in fact the traditional, hierarchical, rote, “regurgitate”,
classical education model in practice all over the world today maintains and
even bolsters these sicknesses and issues of students, and by extension the
problems of the world. The world higher
educational model has been in practice for many hundreds of years, and our
problems of world hunger, world peace, war, genocide, and divisions of race,
sex, and class persist and are maintained. The current educational model in
place all over the world simply does not work, for it dishonors the whole
person, and if it seeks to address even the partial person, it does this within
a model of hierarchical repetition of the abuse of power.
By the time “children” reach
college, they are still children, never having been trusted or left to their
own innate personalities and interests and needs and expressions, and never
having been left to regulate and be responsible for their own lives. Children
are guided right up until college by parents and teachers and mentors, all of
questionable motives and needs with their misuses of power and expectation, and
all with selfish investment in the outcomes of these impressionable young
people. One or two years of pre-school
and then a year of kindergarten, and then 12 years of “schooling”, all
virtually useless for a young person who is being forced and expected. A passionate and self-motivated and
self-regulated 20 year old can learn twice as much in 2 years than what was
forced down the throats of children in 15 years of “state” (and the parents are
an extension of the state) brainwashing.
Veteran world travelers are
changed people. If all people possess
levels of neurosis, of mental and emotional trauma and deprivation, of
unfulfilled needs, of ignorance, of the results of womb and birth and child
abuse, and of the lack of education and basic acculturation, veteran world
travelers possess far less. Traveling the world is a healing experience. All people possess levels of hatred, of class
division, of educational ignorance and division, and of the lack of basic
morality (personal), basic ethics (communal), and basic manners and societally
acceptable behavior, but veteran world travelers possess far less, for
traveling the world levels the playing field, and we learn to understand
ourselves through others, and we automatically embrace compassion and empathy
for all others. All people possess
levels of brainwashing and ignorant ideas of power and obedience, of patriotism
and nationalism, of acceptance and obedience to the God-President-Governor-Policeman-Daddy
chain, and of fear and loathing of the “other”, but veteran travelers possess
far less, for exposure to others opens our minds and our hearts, and facilitates
that we learn to think for ourselves, and act against the misuse of power and
information. All people possess levels
of selfishness and self-centeredness ad egocentricity and human-centric
behavior and ideology, but world travelers possess far less, for living as a
world citizen in the world itself give us a broader experience of self and
Life, a shared life with others and nature. All people possess levels of a religious and
spiritual bias or vacuum, or religious and spiritual brainwashing, and all
people live with levels of pride and arrogance and hostility towards Life in
general, mostly manifested against the “other” that we feel is different and to
blame, but world travelers possess far less, for in the world we immediately
learn that there is no other, only other people like us with distinct lives and
belief systems. Traveling the world creates a world class person simply by being
in the whole world.
I propose that children be
left to be free to be themselves and have a childhood full of boredom and
adventure and personal passions. I
propose that children be left to be children, and that children be left to have
beautiful and wonderful childhoods full of play and rebellion and asking
questions. I propose a childhood free
from any chores or any homework, or any expectations at all, except for not
infringing on the freedom of others. I
imagine a childhood where the parents are on the side of the child completely,
with interest by the parents only in wishing that their children remain alive,
and healthy, and HAPPY, and nothing else.
Children already know who they are and that they want when they are
still in the womb, all we have to do is be on their side with Love and support,
and they will find their own way. All we
have to do is make the world open and available to them, and they will become
the world.
When children come of age, I
recommend 5 to 10 years of traveling around the world, working in each country
for 3 to 6 months, which will give 10 to 40 life changing “adventures” to truly
educate the new “person of the world”. When the person is truly and finally
self-educated, beyond the brainwashing of the mainstream, status-quo paradigm,
they can always attend an institute of higher learning to specialize and learn
a “career” to “be somebody”, or get that diploma to earn that money or status. If practiced on a global basis, I believe that
this world traveling education model would be the eventual end to hate, to racism,
to sexism, to class and educational division, and maybe even the end to world
hunger and war. It is clear that our
global “system”, including and especially our faulty educational model, is an
incubator and breeding ground for repeating what we are living, and we are
living in an uncertain and scary time indeed, and no one can deny that. No veteran world traveler remains hateful,
racist, sexist, or entrenched in class division, and no veteran world traveler
has remains idle regarding starvation, or becomes involved in war, unless this
world traveler is traveling with all 5 senses effectively shut down.
We must look to the future
for saving ourselves and our planet, and the future is our children. Our children must look to the world for their
answers, and the world is right at their and our doorstep. There truly is no “other”, and there truly is
no difference in any of us, except that the person next to you, who is so
humble and forgiving, so understanding and giving, so successful and happy, is
a person of the world for having educated themselves by traveling the world. Traveling the world is a true education, for
it is impossible to get an education without living a life of deep compassion,
of universal empathy, and of simple basic Love for all our brothers and sisters
and animals and wildlife on this beautiful and scary planet. I look forward to seeing you and your
children on the next plane or train or boat to some far out and far off
place.
See you tomorrow.
yourpersonalmuse@gmx.com
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