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On a road that leads to Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina a work crew painted "shcool" on the surface to warn drivers they had entered a lower speed zone.
The road had been recently repaved and the crew had just repainted the pavement when this photo was snapped.
The company [contractor] responsible said it had "made a mistake" and would fix the problem (assuming they, by this time, had figured out the "problem").
But, to complicate the matter, a spokesperson for the company said the paint was "interim paint" ... that is used before the final paint is applied. This would, by simple analysis, constitute a "justification" of some sort for the misspelling.
This would be a completely unacceptable response from a child who has been taught the virtues of accountability, honesty, and of conscientious execution of a simple work task.
But a large, and growing, segment of America's adult population has now lost both its understanding and value of these virtues. Accountability has become not only a "non-concern", but has become the "hot-potato" of what has become an adult population focused on personal gain and pleasure only. America's adults now believe it is societally acceptable to gain as an individual at any cost ... even if it means taking from another person.
The use of the timber rattlesnake as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the publications of Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, he made the first reference to the rattlesnake in a satirical commentary published in his Pennsylvania Gazette. It had been the policy of Great Britain to send convicted criminals to America, so Franklin suggested that they thank the British by sending rattlesnakes to England. From this satire, the "Don't Tread On Me" symbol was derived. And today, the symbol has been again transformed, from the US Marine Corp flag icon to the motto icon of the most self-driven group of humans ever witnessed on these shores.
The "Don't Tread On Me" bumper stick on vehicles are now euphemisms, which, in effect, say to others: "I am all about ME, and I don't care about your problems".
That we now see this kind of adult behavior as not only normal, but preferred, we can certainly more easily understand the observed resistance to the use of USA Tax Dollars to benefit working-class citizens.
Middle-class working Americans are now barely able to pay their bills and feed their families. They are relegated to economically-impossible, lives, in what remains of the "White-Flight" suburbs that developed beginning in the 1960's ... a concept that convinced them that they could escape from urban environments, where the population of "Dark People" was growing to discomforting levels.
The 2000 Census showed more than 50% of the US Population resided in "Suburbs". As fuel prices, home prices, automobile prices, college tuitions, secondary schools fees, and recreational costs began to increase in leaps by 1990, suburban Americans began feeling the most anxiety-producing economic squeezes in the history of human existence. Suburban Americans had been "suckered" into an existence that was intended to suck the economic life out of them And to this day, most of those suburbanites still cannot locate the source of the pain this existence has imposed.
The economic machine that is doing no more than sitting the "back room", and counting the cash as it rolls in from the bank accounts, retirement funds, and now the social safety net of individual Americans, cares nothing about the health, mental nor physical, of the very humans they are shaking down.
The resulting economic stresses have imposed so severe a set of mental and physical illnesses on those citizens that the next logical remedy to ensuring the flow of cash was the over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs, that would finish the behavior modification process.
Today, 60% of the more than 155 Million Suburban Americans are consuming several doctor-prescribed, mind-altering medications daily ... and are drifting ever-farther away from having the ability to rationally analyze the social and economic obstructions in their paths. And many within that population is under the age of 15 ... headed for a shortened life of mind-altering drug dependence. And in this state, nothing matters, including continually-lowered education and human-health standards, something the economic machine finds is working to its advantage. The "Machine" simply sucks the economic resources from this unsuspecting population ... and then it dies off earlier every year, keeping life-sustaining costs to minimums.
And so, the next time we laugh at a misspelled word on a public safety display, remember ... this was part of the plan: they want you dumber, and then dead.
