Scaring Our Children into Thinking a Certain Way

Just saw this juicy little tidbit on Twitter and had to share it with you all …

Get this, they are actually showing this video to GRADE SCHOOL kids in Canada:

GRADE SCHOOL kids, people. That is just SICK! I wonder how many of those poor children will have nightmares over this nonsense. NOT to mention, how many children will grow up thinking that it’s TRUE.

THIS is the reason conservatives get so bent out of shape whenever something like this is shown to our children. Forget that it’s disturbing, scary and sad to an eight-year old mind, but it indoctrinates our children into thinking a certain way, which is PRECISELY the goal, I assure you.

Look. I have NO problem discussing Global Warming or any other such nonsense topics as long as people/teachers/parents discuss the OTHER side of the argument as well.

Same goes for Evolution, to use another example. Sure, teach our children the theory of evolution, THEN teach the other side of the coin, creationism. After both sides of the issue have been presented, talk about it, debate it, examine the facts, dissect the rationalization that both sides give for an issue. Give the children (and people in general) ALL of the facts and then allow those children (people) to make up their own minds.

When you only present one side of an issue, then you are brainwashing people into believing the information being fed to them. And when people are brainwashed, then they are easily manipulated into doing, living, VOTING a certain way.

But back to this Global Warming issue, I’ve blogged before how I personally think Global Warming is a bunch of hooey, but that’s the conclusion I came to after examining the issue from both sides of the aisle. However, just because I don’t believe in the scare tactics that our government tries to feed us about how the world is coming to an end because of man-made Global Warming (and the Earth is indeed heating up – but not at the rate they want you to believe and definitely not like the video above has portrayed – I still can’t believe they are actually showing that to children – but I don’t believe it’s because of man that it’s happening), I DO believe we could ALL do better in taking care of our Earth. We can definitely make changes and we definitely waste way too many resources. But that’s the funny thing about humans, they learn. And act. And we’ve already made HUGE strides in the right direction. Can we do better? Absolutely!! But do I think we’re going to end up with a barren world where animals commit suicide because it’s the better alternative to living on a destroyed world?

No.

This is just another example of how we, as parents, as people, need to constantly be aware of what’s going on around us and to take issue with things like this being shoved onto our children. Again, show BOTH sides of the issue (and make it age appropriate for God’s sake), and then discuss it. Don’t just show one side of an issue and deem it “right” or “correct.”

That’s irresponsible and just plain wrong.

At any rate, I found the following video about Global Warming very interesting. Note how the guest speaker mentions that the other networks wouldn’t even interview him or how Al Gore and his followers repeatedly refused to discuss, or debate, these scientists who dared to disagree with them. To me, that says two things:

1. They can’t debate it because their facts are skewed and they know it.
2. The media hand picks and chooses what it shows to the public. That right there should be enough to raise a few warning flags in my book.