Disney Propaganda: Education for Death

The following video is a fine example of WWII propaganda. What was most interesting about it was the fadeout and replacement of the Bible with Mein Kampf in the cartoon. Of course today we have no Bible in the schools. I am not necessarily saying it should be in the schools, but if its absence in Nazi schools is bad, what does this say about our schools?  

Note also the harshness of the German to our English ears. This also was designed to add to the effect of the propaganda. 

The purpose of our school system is not to educate. It is to enforce conformity. It is to make us complacent. It is to make us slaves. Of course a good slave does need a basic education in order to be a good worker. 

While our education system has not reached the point it may have in Nazi Germany, we are getting there. Here is an example:

Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday he had signed a bill that will require public schools in the state to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americas.

The bill, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, will also require teachers to provide instruction on the role of people with disabilities.

“History should be honest,” Brown said in a statement.

This is not new. I remember my 8th grade history book. It only mentioned one person by name who was killed in the Boston Massacre in the American Revolutionary War. Would you care to guess his race? 

This is a propaganda technique called framing that was discussed in yesterday's video on propaganda. 

This is not being honest. This is framing the data in order to achieve the desired result. Thanksgiving is a good example of what I mean. Most of what we learned about it in school is myth and propaganda. John C. Dvorak, a tech writer and pundit, wrote about this several years ago. 

Although I am not a historian, I do have the training. History is seldom totally honest, as it is often used to justify whatever political ideology the writer has. This is why in the series on Church history that I am working on I start with my biases. Self-examination of our individual biases is a needed step to understand any subject. If we do not do this self-examination, we end up susceptible to propaganda.

Think I am out of line in my characterization of our current school system?