Why Xviii

By John Weyland

This book contains 58 pieces. They are all meant to say something new about the subject dealt with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665525855

John Weyland

(Author did not want to provide. All his other books for this series did not have ATA)

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Chapter 1

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Women have not been giving less attention to their appearance.

In fact, because they are better off than they used to be they are spending more time and money making themselves attractive to men than they ever did.

They used to have a good excuse for this. They were totally dependent on men. Their position in life depended on men. Everybody knew this and accepted it.

Not only was their appearance determined by this but all of their behavior.

So now they are supposedly equal to men. So why don’t they abandon the appearance and mannerisms of the bygone years? The new women have been with us for a long time now. Isn’t it about time for them to adapt?

When it can be argued that their present clothing couldn’t be more impractical.

The activists--as is their habit--avoid this subject, as they do every subject for which they do not have a ready answer.

Well, you can argue they still have sex to deal with. And the obsession with sex causes them to cling to the old-fashioned habits.

So why do they have to go through so much effort to attract? Men don’t. Sex does enough attracting on its own. It doesn’t need lipstick and nylon stockings. It doesn’t need coquettish behavior.

The truth is that what women were doing became hereditary with them. They don’t need it anymore but it’s part of them. They cannot get themselves to rid themselves of it. So they are going to go on with the old ways even though they no longer suit their circumstances.

Chapter 2

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Classroom lectures are too long.

The human memory cannot cope with them. So most of them are wasted.

What is needed are shorter lectures. A length that human memory can cope with.

Pupils over the centuries have been reprimanded for not paying attention while the teachers droned on. It was the teachers that should have been reprimanded, not the pupils. They were the ones in charge. They knew the pupils could not remember longer presentations, but they persisted in giving them. This suited the teachers. They had acquired the material over time. They were able to remember it. They felt good in showing it off. But most of it was lost on their pupils.

The basic problem was that the school day was too long. The pupils could not possibly remember all the material that could be presented to them in so many hours. So they looked out the window.

It was the material that was meant to suit the teachers. They had to work a full day to justify being paid for a full day. You couldn’t very well shorten this to accommodate the pupils. They had to put up with what they got.

So those who got an education wound up with a few scraps they could remember. What the schools did was to keep them occupied until they grew up and could start doing real work.

The situation changed in the 19th century when more professions started being taught. Their classes had to be more effective if the professions were to be taught usefully. The pupils had to remember more of what they were taught.

It was only the liberals that went on with the old ways. This could be because they were not meant to be useful.

Chapter 3

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The American Revolution made it hard to teach the truth about American history in American schools.

Because it concentrated attention on right and wrong, which is not history.

All history is a combination of right and wrong and real history. Americans were so taken with the right and wrong they gave little attention to the real history, which tended to be ignored and falsified.

They have continued to do this, although the circumstances of their lives are very different than they were when the American Revolution took place.

The established thinking of the time condemned the American Revolution. The governments of the time were monarchies. Monarchies, naturally, did not approve of movements that condemned monarchies.

To succeed the American Revolution had to convince a large part of the men in America that that was the right thing to do. Popular movements anywhere have to do this because they depend on popular support. Men were not going to go out and fight for a revolution unless they thought it was right.

The instigators of the revolution made the best cause they could against the British monarchy. It wasn’t very good, but it sufficed.

People are taught good and bad when they are growing up. They are too young to think, so this is necessary. They continue to believe in good and bad all their lives. They like doing it because when they feel they are doing good they feel good. When they get older and can think they do not do so. They prefer the habits of childhood.

This makes it hard for them to switch to real history--particularly about their own country. Few of them ever do.

Chapter 4

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How could Stalin have done this?

Not another atrocity. That would have been routine for Stalin. He was a master of atrocities. He ruled the Soviet Union for 30 years thanks to his mastery of atrocities.

No, this was naivete or stupidity. Neither of which Stalin had been known for otherwise in his career.

What are we talking about?

Berlin.

Berlin after Germany’s defeat in World War II.

Stalin agreed to that Berlin, which any schoolboy could have seen was going to cause trouble for the Soviet Union.

The last thing Stalin wanted after World War II was a unified Germany allied with the United States and other western powers. And that was what he got with the Berlin he agreed to create--a Berlin that would show how much better life was under capitalism.

You could say he agreed to this with Berlin because he believed his own propaganda. But he was too smart for that. His own propaganda said that communism would outperform the capitalist countries.

What happened was that one of his successors, Nikita Krushchev, did actually believe the propaganda. He thought that communism would be popular with the people living under it and they would willingly stay with it and side with the Soviet Union.

Khrushchev was an unusual politician. He achieved the leadership of the Soviet Union because he was energetic and could get things done. Nobody ever guessed he actually thought as he did.

Then shortly after he took power he publicly condemned