@valued-customer, EXCELLENT! you have figured out "how" to begin a "War of Wisdom" and a debate about "Tectonic Plates" and "Continental Shelves" and the mis-information" of each. I was lucky when in school, I had a few teachers who were exactly that, "Teachers" who taught us, mainly to think for ourselves. This included the ONLY Mountain range that is still growing, rather than shrinking. Those mountains have the tallest and the longest mountains in the world, the Himalayas with Everest and K2, only to name 2 of them.
Contemporary teachings are exactly what you brought to the fore, "pre-programming" to get us all to blindly accept what the Wealthiest wants us to believe. This being evidenced by the $1.2 TRILLION tax break that has benefitted ONLY the wealthiest among us.
This Country has spent more on "Defense" than the next 27 developed nations of the world, 25 of them are our own allies. Annually we give hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons and aid to the worlds greatest "Human Rights" violator, Saudi Arabia and those weapons and aid mysteriously end up in the hands of terrorist organizations around the globe. But yet, SA does so many "good things" for us, like only charging us for crude oil what they used to charge us in 1974 (ever wonder why our gas prices keep rising?) and we give Big Oil "subsidies" in order for them to get higher profits.
Many Thanks, I hope many read your whole article! Mitch, out