Confusion Studies

“Of course,” he said. “Remember something called the New Math? It was introduced into schools in the 1960s. It was based on a branch of logic called set theory. Simple arithmetic was translated into that complex garble. An easy problem or arithmetical calculation suddenly became bizarre and often incomprehensible. ‘Boiling water’ suddenly became a seventeen-step process for PhD candidates—only you were dealing with seven-year olds. The New Math was a trap for young minds. A maze. Once you’re in it, you can’t get out. You don’t know where you’re going. Every day, new confusions are added to old confusions. Right out there in the open, this was a program of brainwashing. The goal wasn’t planting falsehoods. Under the guise of teaching logic and critical thinking, the goal was mass confusion. Young minds want answers. If you keep denying them those answers, you induce chaos. You pour chaos into what would otherwise be a straightforward process. You demean thinking. You make children believe thinking has no purpose. Do you see? Do your see what that achieves? Schools become factories for insanity. Most people just don’t get this. They don’t see that inducing confusion is a tactic, a weapon. It’s powerful. There should be a whole branch of college learning called Confusion Studies. How it’s done. How it’s manufactured. How it’s used. You could revolutionize higher learning with that. You could clear away tons of garbage. You could wake people up to what has been done to them. You could eventually change society for the better. That’s why colleges don’t teach students this subject. Too many of their courses are run by professors who make their living through delivering sophistry. I’m here to tell you that some of this is quite, quite intentional. It isn’t just business as usual. It’s a psychological operation.”