John Oliver vs the Wright Brothers

Why is this even still a question? Well, again, they’re bringing in their guy to try to warn people away from getting out of their system. And everything that he’s talking about is really an attack. Not so much even on homeschooling as it is on parental rights. And it’s another attack on this idea that children belong to parents. We got to get rid of that, said Melissa Harris Perry and CNN and PSA announcement, public service announcements.

I think maybe it’s MSNBC. I don’t remember which one of those propaganda networks, they’re putting that out. But that’s what we see behind all of this conflict over the tranny grooming and all the rest of this stuff. It is a direct attack on parental rights, and it is a direct move for the government to take control of kids. And so his suspicion is directed towards parents. He dismisses that there’s anything at all wrong with government schools, which everybody was able to see in 2020.

That’s one of the blessings of this stuff. We go through these difficult times that we saw last couple of years, and we’re able to see what was, the parents were actually able to see what was going on in their child’s classroom, actually in that classroom. So they knew that this was something that was affecting their kids directly. They would always dismiss it in the past by saying, yeah, that’s some other school, that’s some other state, or even if it’s in my school, it’s in a different classroom.

It’s not where my kid, well, they could see that was really what was happening there. We’ve also gone through a point in time where a lot of people have seen the difference between trusting government and trusting government narratives and the harm that came from that and then standing on your principles and standing away from that. So we’ve had a lot of people, Jason Barker, pushing back against this jab in the military, this coerced jab.

And I think on the other side of this, it was a test. It was a trial for many people. And many people, even those who are not directly involved in some of these trials, have seen that standing on the right side of things in this life doesn’t always work out to your advantage, but a lot of times it does. And a lot of people have gotten a longer term view about what is happening with this Michael Ferriss, who is with the homeschool Legal Defense association.

But he was also involved in the parental rights movement to try to get a constitutional amendment acknowledging, not giving, but acknowledging our God given rights and protecting those rights in the constitution. Michael Ferriss pointed out parents from multiple faiths have come out in droves against the graphic materials, the pornographic stuff that’s being pushed in the schools. But John Oliver is not saying anything about the fact that homeschooling kids have been doing well in terms of results, because results don’t matter to these people.

They point out in this article that homeschoolers tend to outscore public school students on standardized tests by 15 to 25 percentile points. But when you compare yourself to the government schools where they’re designed to deliberately dumb down people, I mean, that is a very low standard. But they are doing, by that standard, even they’re doing better overall. One can’t help but wonder if Oliver’s frustration with homeschooling really boils down to a core philosophical conviction that parents do not have a right to educate their kids.

He suggests that parents should have to earn the right to homeschool since, quote, having a child does not automatically make you virtuous, unquote. Well, you know, having a late night tv show doesn’t make you virtuous or knowledgeable or honest either. He says, in his view, the government should have the right to determine a parent’s virtue. According to what standard? Who gets to decide? Again, this is like the, you know, deciding what is true in speech and then punishing who gets to decide what’s true, who gets to decide what religion is true, who gets to decide what the kids should do.

But this is really, what is at stake is really parental rights. By the way, talked about over the weekend. We had the anniversary of the original insurrection, I guess, the Boston Tea party, 250 years. And we also had, I think it was 232 years for the anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Talked about that. Both those fell on the weekend. Something else that fell on the weekend that I didn’t get around to talking about was the Wright brothers, the anniversary of their flight there at Kitty Hawk.

I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Kitty Hawk. I’ve been to Kitty Hawk. It is interesting that these two guys, these two bicycle mechanics, went to the Kitty hawk to do their flight. And of course, it’s the license plate there in North Carolina, first in flight. Ohio’s not happy about that. They want to claim the Wright brothers for their own. I think they’ve got some kind of license plate about that as well, if I’m not mistaken.

But what North Carolina had was a very windy place. I mean, it is, truly. And so that was a big help. But they did a lot of innovation. That’s not to take away the innovation from them. And as I’ve talked about the Wright brothers before, how they shaped aviation, we ought to look at the Wright brothers story as something that really should shape people’s opinion about homeschooling and about authority figures.

The Anthony Fauci of his day was Langley, that they named Langley Air Force Base after he was involved with the Smithsonian Institute. But he was the permanent scientist of his day. Everybody was infatuated with him, and he was trying to make a flying machine. He couldn’t do it. And the reason he couldn’t do it was because he was using the tables that had been developed by other people with very, very amazing credentials, and they were wrong.

But because they were coming from named schools and people who had a name and a lot of degrees and everything, he trusted them, and he couldn’t get his stuff to work. The Wright brothers, on the other hand, did their own tables. The Wright brothers watched birds closely to see how God had designed them, and they came up with aerons, tongue tied about that. But they came up with a three axis control system that mimicked the way birds could change the wing and that type of thing.

And there were a couple of bicycle mechanics, and they were home schooled, and they were not burdened with the idea that they had to follow the tables and follow the scientific authorities, they thought on their own. And so they not only developed the airplane, but they also developed the engine, and then they went to Kitty Hawk to fly it. They spent four years on research and development, doing their own original research.

They created the first successful powered airplane. They invented a three axis control system, enabled them to steer the aircraft by adjusting the angles of the wing, the rudder, and the elevator, that, they realized, need to be done by watching birds. This was a real big innovation. The brothers also engineered and constructed both the four cylinder gasoline engine and the propellers. And so how did it change the world? Well, thanks to them, generations of inventors have been inspired to think beyond.

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