What Happened and How Did We Get Here?

by: Gigi Bowman
05/01/2024
Source: UncoverDC
05/01/2024

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I graduated from High School in 1977, before the Department of Education began. I don't even have pictures of myself from that time because we didn't have cameras or phones with which we constantly walked around, so my memory of events is clearly inside my head. And I do remember this... My generation of the mid to late 70s was the first generation to be made to feel like we were losers if we didn't go to college. Even if our parents couldn't afford it, we felt like we "had to" because it suddenly became the thing. So I did it. I went. I took out a college loan, probably one of the first.

And I remember it all too well. It was just an extension of High School and kept me out of the job market. The job I got after college, I could have gotten on my own. I had already learned the "good" basics in High School...Typing, bookkeeping, etc.... I didn't want to be a doctor, lawyer, or any of those things... I wanted to be a writer, lol. For that, you don't need to go to college; you need to work to support yourself, and High School taught us the basics. I got into college without taking an SAT because you didn't need one to get in. Most of my friends started going away to college, and "partying" became the "thing." I had a boyfriend, and we went to college together on Long Island. Honestly, it was just more High School. Still, I wasn't learning the basics anymore because I was majoring in "liberal arts," which is another laughable way to explain what happened in the name of "education."

Thinking back on that time, I feel like it was indeed a way to keep the unemployment rate down because another four years of schooling were added to the education of children who didn't have to step into adulthood yet. It was a ploy—another DC Hustle—and a way to create a new way to keep people in debt—mortgaging their homes and taking out loans to send their kids to college. Government loans...

It was the beginning of the end. College was a big psyop; today, we see what that has created. And then they brought in "medication." Depression, ADHD, Ritalin, Adderall. We began to poison the food with Round-up and created GMO seeds to grow food that would not be affected by the herbicides and pesticides. Sugar substitutes took over, and people started drowning in them in droves as if they were a "healthy" alternative. Diet Pepsi. Sweet and Low. Aspartame. And then came phones and the Xbox and the internet. We had to take vitamin D supplements rather than get it from being outside.

And there it was. The kids were stifled and given medication and eating food that was poisoning them. Staying inside and playing video games rather than going to the beach. Bullying one another on social networks where you can give hurt anonymously. Gay, Bi, Trans. Confused. Poisoned. Sad. Drugged. Sick.

Today, we have what we created. I don't need to tell you what that is because you see it every day and everywhere in the "news." And that's another story in itself. But maybe it's time to address this. When did we get on this path, and where are we going? Somehow, we thought we were creating a better world, but ultimately, we failed. Government and Technology working together have failed humanity. How do we bring back joy? Health? Love? Living?