THE TRUTH of the matter is mankind is still on an evolutionary path that disproves the indoctrination of the past to an era of education & science to become healthier and smarter. We have improved our thinking skills, as mankind has gone from sorcery in healing to medical science breakthroughs, from a non-reading society to an educated and scientific society, and from indoctrination societies of biasness and even racist ideologies to a world that is striving for Human & Civil Rights with Equality for all. The primary factor for these evolutionary changes of growth is EDUCATION, as we learn better, we become better, it’s really that simple. The problem is that so many of us have been indoctrinated to the point that they refuse to even consider the educational and scientific TRUTHS. Dr. Galvin DeLeon Guerrero is so right about “Education being the most valuable thing a person can process.” KUDOS to Dr. G and thanks for inspiring this OP Ed, you’re awesome!
But just think about all the indoctrination that has gone on in the history of mankind, everything from slavery being an accepted institution throughout the world to marijuana being evil and harmful only to be proven wrong through education and science. People were indoctrinated to believe these things because there was no science to substantiate how horrific these ideologies were but eventually education and science prove them wrong. The more the world becomes educated the better off for all of mankind and history has proven this fact time & time again. We still have educational challenges today even with all the diverse means for people to be educated. But let’s say for instance, if a person only watches FOX News, they will have a totally different perspective about a lot of things that will be in direct conflict with those who watch CNN. However, TIME is always on the RIGHT-SIDE of Mankind, as FOX is now being exposed as an “Indoctrination Media Network that will promote lies and know they are lies.” While CNN is driven by the true facts and the sciences that have evolved with mankind.
Just to show the CNMI what I mean about marijuana going from being evil to becoming a medical wonder and the safest vice that mankind can use thanks to education & science. The indoctrination of marijuana being evil was driven by cotton & paper big businesses because hemp is superior for many uses in materials, plastics, glass, fiberglass and other synthetic products. All the made-up bad things about marijuana were just that “made-up” indoctrination which is HOW mankind was indoctrinated to be against marijuana. But now education & science are proving everything about the indoctrination against marijuana being wrong. Just think, the CNMI made a law preventing the use of marijuana in pubic and even on beaches but adults can drink all day on the beaches and even use children to serve them beers. But if a person lights a joint, it’s sooo bad and they will even say get away with that stuff. But they can get drunk in front of the kids who brought them the beers and even become belligerent wanting to fight everyone. It is truly time for all of mankind to rethink and learn the truth about marijuana and stop clinging to the old and out-of-date indoctrination that stalled the evolution of mankind in relationship to the use of marijuana. I don’t think people should be drinking nor smoking in front of our youth in their formative years yet it’s OK for cigarettes and alcohol in public — indoctrination v education & science.
I know some of this is going to fly right over the heads of some, especially my critics and those who have been indoctrinated to “stop Ambrose and any outsider who tries to tell locals what needs to be done.” But many locals have out-grown and matured in their evolution to become more tolerant and even embrace equality for all regardless of their origins and race. As mankind becomes more and more educated the more, we move away from the pitfalls of indoctrination that actually work against our evolution and finding prosperity for all. Mankind is supposed to be getting better not trying to remain the same which is why the conservative movement in America is becoming more and more a dying breed, thanks to education and science. Nature and our very being dictates that nothing remains the same and we must learn how to grow and control the changes in our evolution oppose to fighting for the feudal ideology of keeping things the same. One People One Direction.
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays & lifetime Humanities Scholar who resides in Kagman III.
Ambrose M. Bennett
