Reflecting upon my personal "9/11" story, where I was when I saw 9/11 happen on TV, how I felt about 9/11, how others around me were reacting to 9/11, I remembered having this really shitty political science professor named John A. Ray at Xavier University.
While he may have been seemingly more sophisticated in his worldview than my uncles, cousins, & fathers who all loved the Iraq War, who all wanted to see all the "towelheads" and "sand niggers" killed, who thought that Arabs were responsible for all of the ills in the world, John A. Ray's overall worldview didn't depart radically from theirs.
John A. Ray is a right-wing fascist Republican. When Al Gore had his election stolen from him, John A. Ray said that Al Gore should just sit down for that year (2000), and then maybe he wouldn't be disgraced, and could come back in 4 years and run again. Of course, that never happened with Gore. Instead, Gore never became President, and he never ran for the office again. But that's precisely what John A. Ray was saying. John A. Ray wanted the Republican to become President, we as a nation just had 8 years of Democrat Bill Clinton, and John A. Ray was afraid that if a Republican didn't win, then his precious Republican Party would be dismantled forever.
I find myself hating him today because during my younger and more vulnerable days of youth, I really wanted people to like me, and because of that sentiment, I was easily manipulated & exploited. I was 19 years old then. But today, 15 years later, at 34 years old, I do not have those same biases. Fuck John A. Ray. Fuck that lowlife piece of shit. In fact, fuck all of the professors and teachers I've ever had in the United States. They're all a bunch of holier-than-thou stuck up snobs, who think their shit don't stink, who are monarch monologists, dictator fascists, oppressor molester professors.
Where did the American people learn their democracy? Definitely not from the unapologetic hierarchical public school systems, nor from the equally unapologetic hierarchical colleges, that's for sure.
Maybe the corporations will teach us solidarity & democracy.
Why are Amerika's elite so afraid of democracy? Maybe it's the obvious. They want to keep their position of power & authority, keep on getting that paycheck, so they dissuade the bright ones from moving upwards, especially if they're not a boot-licking fascist. John A. Ray is still working at Xavier U., though, only as an associate!?! lol I figured he'd be on as a full grown full time professor by now.
No doubt, John A. Ray is a fascist. John A. Ray believes, as many teachers/professors do, in 100% compliance. However, not even Hitler got 100% compliance. August Landmesser refused to do the "heir Hitler" salute, deciding to cross his arms in protest instead. August Landmesser is a hero. Even a dead fish can go along with the flow. Fuck conformity. Fuck obedience. And fuck a fascist.
The worst crimes in history--slavery, war, genocide--happened because of blind obedience to authority. That's all John A. Ray is teaching.
I'm also glad that I took some teacher training class because they only confirmed to me what I had only suspected: teachers are the oppressors, they are the fascists. I have seen behind the curtain, and it turns out, that the Wizard of Oz is really just a short lil insecure man using tricks to make himself seem bigger. Teachers, in order to "Teach Like a Champion", were taught to oppress, and that's precisely what they do. Instead of empowering and liberating their students, they oppress, exploit, hinder... the teachers get all the money & power and leave their students with none. The love of the oppressor is a sadistic love. It is a love of death, not of life.
There's a few other comments of John A. Ray that continue to linger. While I'm glad that Tocqueville & the Federalist Papers were introduced to me, if I would have taken John A. Ray's lectures to be serious, then I would have internalized his worldview without any serious questions. I'm glad he was dull, so I didn't have to listen to him drone on & on, and could still maintain some independence of thought & autonomy to my person.
I remember John A. Ray distinctly saying that the wealthy needed protecting. Considering how James Madison said that the main purpose of the 1789 U.S. Constitution was to protect the opulent minority from the masses, John A. Ray's comments aren't surprising. I'm just wondering why did he say it? Why was it important for him to specifically say that we need to protect the wealthy? It's like... do the wealthy not already have plenty of friends, and protections that many of us do not? And what about the poor? Don't they need to be protected as well? In fact, the poor don't get the same protections that the wealthy get. And then when we see how the big banks were bailed out for giving away too many risky home loans in 2008 (when Baby Bush used Socialism in order to save Capitalism), but many peasants who lost their homes weren't bailed out, how can one see the inherent unfairness of the system?
The US should have let those banks failed, and just started from ground zero, just like Iceland did when they threw their crooked bankers in jail. But we didn't do that.
The U.S. Constitution also institutionalized slavery. It's quite far from a perfect document. John Green says that it's a complicated Byzantine kind of system, and that when the US exports her democracy abroad, rarely is the US Constitution used as the prime example.
How many students emerge from college, who had to endure the uppity & arrogant oppression of their classroom monarchs, turn around and talk down to others in the world as if they're inferiors, just because that's how they were talked down to, as inferiors in the classrooms?
I remember suggesting "democracy in the classrooms" to a UofL professor teaching "Democratization" many years later, only to be scoffed at, by him, and his sycophants.
Now the only comments that John A. Ray said that linger is an enlightened way, were his comments on womankind. He said that he knew a woman who defended motherhood to the tilt, saying that she was opposed to feminism, and found great fulfillment in being a wife and mother, even if the Hillary Clintons of the world looked down upon them.
John A. Ray was also surprised by how women would be so catty to other women. They'd see a woman dressed in a nice outfit, and just snap into an explosive rage. John A. Ray asked, "Where did that come from?"
John A. Ray liked to make fun of me because I would fall asleep in his class. He was so boring!!! I rued going to class. Instead of going to his stupid oppressive classes, where nobody is organic, the students pretend like his material is important, Ray gives them A's... it's all concocted bullshit. Around 9/11, I distinctly remember considering: Would I rather go to this asshole lowlife POS's class, or, would I rather shoot myself? I did my duty, but I do not see the benefits of having a John A. Ray in my life. He made suicide seem like a more pleasant possibility. One time, John A. Ray took me to the side, mistaking me for another person, and he said to me, that sometimes college isn't for certain people. He was mistaken. My grades were okay. He didn't realize that.
One last point I'll make. Xavier University started as a Jesuit University. The order of the Jesuits were barred from many nations because they were like... overly radical & violent Catholics, but the mask that has come to represent the Occupy movement & Anonymous, is the Guy Fawkes mask, who as a Jesuit, trying to overthrow King James (of the King James' Bible) by a failed gunpowder plot, that shall not be forgot.
And Guy Fawkes... was a Jesuit.
While he may have been seemingly more sophisticated in his worldview than my uncles, cousins, & fathers who all loved the Iraq War, who all wanted to see all the "towelheads" and "sand niggers" killed, who thought that Arabs were responsible for all of the ills in the world, John A. Ray's overall worldview didn't depart radically from theirs.
John A. Ray is a right-wing fascist Republican. When Al Gore had his election stolen from him, John A. Ray said that Al Gore should just sit down for that year (2000), and then maybe he wouldn't be disgraced, and could come back in 4 years and run again. Of course, that never happened with Gore. Instead, Gore never became President, and he never ran for the office again. But that's precisely what John A. Ray was saying. John A. Ray wanted the Republican to become President, we as a nation just had 8 years of Democrat Bill Clinton, and John A. Ray was afraid that if a Republican didn't win, then his precious Republican Party would be dismantled forever.
I find myself hating him today because during my younger and more vulnerable days of youth, I really wanted people to like me, and because of that sentiment, I was easily manipulated & exploited. I was 19 years old then. But today, 15 years later, at 34 years old, I do not have those same biases. Fuck John A. Ray. Fuck that lowlife piece of shit. In fact, fuck all of the professors and teachers I've ever had in the United States. They're all a bunch of holier-than-thou stuck up snobs, who think their shit don't stink, who are monarch monologists, dictator fascists, oppressor molester professors.
Where did the American people learn their democracy? Definitely not from the unapologetic hierarchical public school systems, nor from the equally unapologetic hierarchical colleges, that's for sure.
Maybe the corporations will teach us solidarity & democracy.
Why are Amerika's elite so afraid of democracy? Maybe it's the obvious. They want to keep their position of power & authority, keep on getting that paycheck, so they dissuade the bright ones from moving upwards, especially if they're not a boot-licking fascist. John A. Ray is still working at Xavier U., though, only as an associate!?! lol I figured he'd be on as a full grown full time professor by now.
No doubt, John A. Ray is a fascist. John A. Ray believes, as many teachers/professors do, in 100% compliance. However, not even Hitler got 100% compliance. August Landmesser refused to do the "heir Hitler" salute, deciding to cross his arms in protest instead. August Landmesser is a hero. Even a dead fish can go along with the flow. Fuck conformity. Fuck obedience. And fuck a fascist.
The worst crimes in history--slavery, war, genocide--happened because of blind obedience to authority. That's all John A. Ray is teaching.
I'm also glad that I took some teacher training class because they only confirmed to me what I had only suspected: teachers are the oppressors, they are the fascists. I have seen behind the curtain, and it turns out, that the Wizard of Oz is really just a short lil insecure man using tricks to make himself seem bigger. Teachers, in order to "Teach Like a Champion", were taught to oppress, and that's precisely what they do. Instead of empowering and liberating their students, they oppress, exploit, hinder... the teachers get all the money & power and leave their students with none. The love of the oppressor is a sadistic love. It is a love of death, not of life.
There's a few other comments of John A. Ray that continue to linger. While I'm glad that Tocqueville & the Federalist Papers were introduced to me, if I would have taken John A. Ray's lectures to be serious, then I would have internalized his worldview without any serious questions. I'm glad he was dull, so I didn't have to listen to him drone on & on, and could still maintain some independence of thought & autonomy to my person.
I remember John A. Ray distinctly saying that the wealthy needed protecting. Considering how James Madison said that the main purpose of the 1789 U.S. Constitution was to protect the opulent minority from the masses, John A. Ray's comments aren't surprising. I'm just wondering why did he say it? Why was it important for him to specifically say that we need to protect the wealthy? It's like... do the wealthy not already have plenty of friends, and protections that many of us do not? And what about the poor? Don't they need to be protected as well? In fact, the poor don't get the same protections that the wealthy get. And then when we see how the big banks were bailed out for giving away too many risky home loans in 2008 (when Baby Bush used Socialism in order to save Capitalism), but many peasants who lost their homes weren't bailed out, how can one see the inherent unfairness of the system?
The US should have let those banks failed, and just started from ground zero, just like Iceland did when they threw their crooked bankers in jail. But we didn't do that.
The U.S. Constitution also institutionalized slavery. It's quite far from a perfect document. John Green says that it's a complicated Byzantine kind of system, and that when the US exports her democracy abroad, rarely is the US Constitution used as the prime example.
How many students emerge from college, who had to endure the uppity & arrogant oppression of their classroom monarchs, turn around and talk down to others in the world as if they're inferiors, just because that's how they were talked down to, as inferiors in the classrooms?
I remember suggesting "democracy in the classrooms" to a UofL professor teaching "Democratization" many years later, only to be scoffed at, by him, and his sycophants.
Now the only comments that John A. Ray said that linger is an enlightened way, were his comments on womankind. He said that he knew a woman who defended motherhood to the tilt, saying that she was opposed to feminism, and found great fulfillment in being a wife and mother, even if the Hillary Clintons of the world looked down upon them.
John A. Ray was also surprised by how women would be so catty to other women. They'd see a woman dressed in a nice outfit, and just snap into an explosive rage. John A. Ray asked, "Where did that come from?"
John A. Ray liked to make fun of me because I would fall asleep in his class. He was so boring!!! I rued going to class. Instead of going to his stupid oppressive classes, where nobody is organic, the students pretend like his material is important, Ray gives them A's... it's all concocted bullshit. Around 9/11, I distinctly remember considering: Would I rather go to this asshole lowlife POS's class, or, would I rather shoot myself? I did my duty, but I do not see the benefits of having a John A. Ray in my life. He made suicide seem like a more pleasant possibility. One time, John A. Ray took me to the side, mistaking me for another person, and he said to me, that sometimes college isn't for certain people. He was mistaken. My grades were okay. He didn't realize that.
One last point I'll make. Xavier University started as a Jesuit University. The order of the Jesuits were barred from many nations because they were like... overly radical & violent Catholics, but the mask that has come to represent the Occupy movement & Anonymous, is the Guy Fawkes mask, who as a Jesuit, trying to overthrow King James (of the King James' Bible) by a failed gunpowder plot, that shall not be forgot.
And Guy Fawkes... was a Jesuit.
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