"You acting like a stupid nigger, Roderick," she said jovially. "Shut your face." The class broke up.


Excerpt from: LouAnne Johnson's classic Dangerous Minds, page 28 of paperback edition.

But!!

Before 1989, when LouAnne Johnson fought against the tide.
Before Jaime Escalante held the high ground against the enemy.
Before the onslaught of the Apparitions of Garabandal in 1961
Before the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978
Before the Medjugorje 25-year plus fiasco, from 1981 onward
Before the 1987 Guatemalan Apparitions
Before the Teens ACTS Retreat psychotic meltdown of July, 2006

There was the all-American education prophet of 1959!


1959: The same year stock-car racing champion Marty Robbins released his hit single, El Paso.

1959: Don Haskins was in his fourth year as both Boys' and Girls' coach in Hedley, Texas.

1959: The legendary Garcia Brothers of El Paso, Texas opened their equally legendary Meat Market.

The prophet's name? Edgar Z. Friedenberg.

His prophetic book? The Vanishing Adolescent.

So what, exactly, did this man of men say, that could apply to:

Phony apparitions to young people in Modern Spain?

Education of teenagers in Modern America?

A murderous cult in Guyana?

Phony apparitions to young people in developing Guatemala?

Phony apparitions in modernizing Yugoslavia?

The mass invitation to riot of the 2006 St. Pat's Teens ACTS Retreat Team Members by a flaky priest, himself in psychotic meltdown?

Excerpt: Friedenberg, Edgar Z. The Vanishing Adolescent. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.

Page 15

"I know of no reason to suppose that, at the present time [1959!], there is a crisis in our relationship to youth; and in any case, this is certainly not a book of instructions to be supplied with adolescents.

"But if the function of adolescence is self-definition, one would expect it to be very difficult in a society which suffers from a dearth of individuality and in which alienation is a crucial problem.

"And if the instrument of self-definition is the conflict between the adolescent and a basically humane society -- which nevertheless has purposes of its own, and more to do than take care of kids -- one would expect the self-defining process to break down as that society became less humane and more manipulative.

"A society which has no purposes of its own, other than to insure domestic tranquility by suitable medication, will have no use for adolescents, and will fear them; for they will be among the the first to complain, as they crunch away at their benzedrine, that tranquilizers make you a square.

"It will set up sedative programs of guidance, which are likely to be described as therapeutic, but whose apparent function will be to keep young minds and hearts in custody until they are without passion."

And so, our basic theme here is:

So-called Medications = Drugs = Psychosis and/or Neurosis = Vulnerablility = Seduction by Demonic Visions, Quacks and Charlatans = Clerical, Medical = Worldwide Crisis.

To be continued...