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Disclaimer: I have no personal ill will towards the people in the pictures. This is just how I feel in general.
Pictures like this really anger me. I feel a sense of disturbed peace when I see “Shluchim” with world leaders. It use to be these guys knew how to learn, sure they knew next to nothing about secular studies, anthropology, political science, or even basic arithmetic but they made it up with a deep understanding in religious studies. They studied many hours, and dedicated their lives to Torah. They had an aura of respectability, a sense of purity. With those types of people I have a general problem with, but I deal with it on a personal level.
Then I see pictures like these; the type of guys who have not studied diligently a day in their lives, have not worked an honest day in their lives. They slept through life; they BS their way through school and now they get to talk to a U.S senator? These people who think they are born into some sort of right to be in such a position are wrong and it is an abhorrence to everything good in this world. Not only is the system overloaded with indolent folk but they are the ones who are the face of our most precious organizations. Besides being ignorant period, and hurting us by their ineffective presentation they are a symbol of what is wrong in the world. We are better than this. We should have our best and brightest meeting with world leaders. We should have some sort of merit system. Nowhere in the world is it like this; where you have ignorant, foolish, unkempt, uneducated people dining with a U.S senator. Imagine if we had bright, presentable, educated merit based system for this type of affair? Where we can talk politics and push for good agendas?
This is a corrupt, idiotic world; where we rather have social hierarchy’s and foolishness then self improvement. Is this the message we should send our youth? That it is okay to be ignorant? That it is okay to be lazy? Is it okay to tell it to ourselves?
When will our system become democratic? When will we revolt to help out community? When will the young that work hard, that admire school and education stand up and revolt the powers that are not just stubborn but are insane, ignorant and above all filled with ancient dogmas? When will this sense of creed that dominates rational thought be abolished? When will we grab hold of the destiny of our most precious assets; our children?
I am sad.
5 comments:
Nu, I just wish Itkin would get himself a haircut ... or a brush.
That is all you are going to offer up?
Yeah, it is disgusting.
"They slept through life; they BS their way through school and now they get to talk to a U.S senator?"
I guess the "system" you hastily graded with an F isn't too bad after all.
Aside- In yeshiva there is always different levels of effort on the part of the students, why do you assume that these Rabbis were not the hard-working masmidim?
Dovid,
It never is for the privileged and the lucky. Or the system that is based on charity from hard working, educated individuals. It really is not that hard to be a beggar. Wait, maybe it does take some sort of talent. Movies and pop culture do have their upsides.
“why do you assume that these Rabbis were not the hard-working masmidim?”
They never made textbooks. There was never a curriculum put into place, they never set up a system where the kids could and should thrive, and above all there is no oversight. They could get away with whatever they want. There was zero accountability, not for the teachers and not for the children. Our kids are ignorant of Torah at the same rate the American low-class educators are failing to teach their kids.
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