Activist Post
I still have surprisingly vivid memories of my elementary school years, back in the mid-to late 80’s, and I often wonder why they have stuck with me in such a way. It was not as if my public school education was especially exciting or invigorating. On the contrary, it was dismal, restrictive, and mostly pointless. However, that time period was rich with something that does indeed tend to latch onto a child’s psyche; the propaganda of doom.
The 1980’s was a decade overflowing with a newly established conditioning campaign. As children, we were relentlessly taught the overwhelming evils of humanity, and our vicious crimes against “mother earth”. We were taught that the ozone layer would be depleted by the time we reached adulthood, and that the earth’s temperature would rise until normal methods of sustainment became futile. We were taught that global warming was a scientific fact, that ocean levels would rise due to the melting of polar ice caps and by the year 2000 (they always claimed all disasters would occur by the year 2000), considerable portions of the U.S. would be buried under the seas. We were told that fresh drinking water would be depleted within two decades, that Blue Whales would be extinct, that oil would disappear causing an energy crisis, and that in the near future we would not be able to walk in bad weather because of the threat of “acid rain”. This propaganda became so sickly prevalent it was like being drowned in fatalistic molasses. It was even introduced into our Saturday morning cartoons in 1990 with the hilarious gut churning globalist brainwash-fest ‘Captain Planet’:
I still have surprisingly vivid memories of my elementary school years, back in the mid-to late 80’s, and I often wonder why they have stuck with me in such a way. It was not as if my public school education was especially exciting or invigorating. On the contrary, it was dismal, restrictive, and mostly pointless. However, that time period was rich with something that does indeed tend to latch onto a child’s psyche; the propaganda of doom.
The 1980’s was a decade overflowing with a newly established conditioning campaign. As children, we were relentlessly taught the overwhelming evils of humanity, and our vicious crimes against “mother earth”. We were taught that the ozone layer would be depleted by the time we reached adulthood, and that the earth’s temperature would rise until normal methods of sustainment became futile. We were taught that global warming was a scientific fact, that ocean levels would rise due to the melting of polar ice caps and by the year 2000 (they always claimed all disasters would occur by the year 2000), considerable portions of the U.S. would be buried under the seas. We were told that fresh drinking water would be depleted within two decades, that Blue Whales would be extinct, that oil would disappear causing an energy crisis, and that in the near future we would not be able to walk in bad weather because of the threat of “acid rain”. This propaganda became so sickly prevalent it was like being drowned in fatalistic molasses. It was even introduced into our Saturday morning cartoons in 1990 with the hilarious gut churning globalist brainwash-fest ‘Captain Planet’:
