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What Psychologists Don’t Talk About?

What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Educated Thinking?

‘Endured Thinking’ dominates our survival and gradually leads to Offensive behavior as we have seen in the earlier article. We fall short of the way we can control our thinking, which has led to a lack of ‘Regulated Thinking’. The question before us is whether we can nurture our thinking to suit the demands of the situations we encounter or not. This is What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Educated Thinking?

The greatest mistake made by almost everyone is to equate literacy with education. As I have pointed out elsewhere, all of us are technically illiterate. All we need to do is to go to another state where we don’t know the language. We suddenly turn into an illiterate! So, literate people need not have to show superiority for being able to read and write.

Now the question is about education. The basic objective of education is to nurture your thinking so that you become a contributing member of society. It qualifies you to understand and deal with problems so that the value system is restored in society. (See ‘What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Value System?’)

However, when politicians enter the arena of education to decide how to educate the masses, they are prone to be manipulated by vested interests.

For several thousand years, India had Universities that imparted education, and temples that served as learning centers. Over the last thousand years, almost all ancient Universities were burnt, and several thousand temples were destroyed for religious reasons. However, education did not suffer much because, in India, education is imparted within the family and is part of Indian culture.

Then there arrived the Western Influence, where instead of physically destroying the education centers, it tried to psychologically destroy the existing education. The tool (weapon) that was used to enslave Indians was the English language.

Those who learned English were rewarded with jobs, salary, and status. Some were “educated” in England and they later became the rulers of the country, who twisted history to suit their political agenda.

Five decades ago, we were fined in schools if we spoke in the local language, Kannada. Anything that represented Indian culture was associated with shame.

This is carried on even to this day. The only change is Britain has been replaced by America and other countries. People feel sophisticated when they go abroad for study or work, without realizing that they have been enslaved for cheap labor.

As students and teachers of psychology, we are dependent on textbooks and reference materials that are provided by American authors. The USA, in its aspiration to become a world leader, has tried to conquer our thoughts and actions to suit its needs. They took over from what the British used to offer earlier.

In India, Western psychology is viewed as highly practical and scientific. All experiments we conduct in our laboratories are borrowed directly from Western psychologists. We have been made to look down upon Indian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and other indigenous philosophies and psychologies.

However, this has made us suffer by not being able to solve modern problems. On the other hand, problems have increased to such a great extent that modern psychology is unable to answer most of them.

The greatest discovery of the Western world that was introduced to indoctrinate (make the masses think in a desired way) was the so-called “Education”.

Whether Abraham Lincoln said it or not, the adage, “You cannot fool all the people all the time” is almost true.

Western media has been successfully able to penetrate the masses by rewarding those who complete “education”. They are economically, socially, and financially well-off when compared to others. However, their physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being have deteriorated and the “educated” people spend their wealth, time, and resources to get back what they have lost.

Modernization kills diversity, variety, and ingenuity. It is programmed to kill them gradually and methodically. Please watch the video on how, in the name of education, there were genocides of children who didn’t toe the line.

America expects students from other countries to be well-equipped, well-versed, and competent. It has innumerable tests to filter out mediocrity. However, it doesn’t understand that these students, once they complete their education, are the ones who are running the show. The younger generation in America has become obsolete.

For instance, Americans can’t answer simple questions like

• “How long is a quarter of an hour?”
• “How much is three cube?”
• “How many weeks are in a year?”
• “How many years is a decade?”

If you don’t trust me, just type “Dumb Americans” in YouTube Search!

Why am I singling out America? Do I have something against the country?

I have nothing against anyone. However, the USA is the world leader, a global superpower, and the most influential country on the planet. What happens in America will be copied by other countries who are aiming to become better. Russia, Canada, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and others have undergone tremendous change and have lost most of their ancient capabilities.

Africa and South America have too diverse cultures to be largely affected by Westernization or Modernization. However, these two continents have modified their lifestyle and food habits to cater to modern markets so much that you can see their population being affected by obesity and other modern diseases.

China is now changing its educated thinking by imparting practical skills that benefit its people in the long run. In another twenty-five years, China may overtake all other countries, thanks to its creative approach to learning. Watch the video below to see a glimpse of it.

India, especially, has a knack for imbibing modernity without losing its spiritual essence, irrespective of the amount of cajoling or threat.

One best example is the “Maha Kumbh Mela” that is going on now at Prayagraj, where 400 million people are expected to participate within 45 days. What draws such a huge crowd is highly spiritual and very few people attend the event with materialistic goals.

Where else on earth can you find millions of ascetics, who have renounced their materialistic comforts and luxuries?

Where else can you find spiritual discourse as the focus of the event?

Where else can you meet the sages who dwell in the depths of the Himalayas?

Where else can you find millions of people being fed 24/7 for free?

Mark Twain, the American Humanist had something positive to say after attending one of the Kumb Melas in 1895, and it holds good even to this day.

It is not surprising that millions of people from the Western-educated world are coming to see the mega event and participate in the holy dip.

If the objective of Western education was to change the thinking and bring it into a single mold, then it has become unsuccessful because it is creating zombies who are not good at anything. The Western-educated people have become largely unemployed and their purchasing power has also dwindled.

The essence of modern education has landed people into becoming “money chasers”. Whether they study in America or elsewhere, they are indoctrinated to think that money is everything and the more they have it, the better their life will be. This is such an immature and faulty reasoning as we have seen in ‘What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Happiness?’ and ‘What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Choices?’

Americans are now starting to realize that “peace of mind” is within the individual, especially after they encounter Indians who are not Western educated. Watch the video below to get a glimpse of it.

What is not taught in modern schools is to value honesty and truthfulness. Deceit, cunningness, lying, cheating, stealing, misdirecting, misleading, manipulating, blackmailing, etc. are considered virtues and a sign of intelligence. Even children at home are encouraged to learn these and the educated parents are happy that the child is capable of dishonesty and disrespect.

I did not have highly educated parents but I was just told not to touch something that doesn’t belong to me. There is a beautiful saying in Hindi, which roughly translates as “The name of everyone who eats it is written on every grain” (दाने दाने पे लिखा है खानेवाला का नाम).

You cannot corrupt the one with the above philosophy engrained in the mind as a child. Watch one of the YouTube Shorts below:

It takes a lot of maturity, courage, and moral strength to say “no” when $100 is offered to the guy who sells noodles for Rs. 10/- (12 Cents, approximately).

The more you depend on modern education, the greater you get corrupted in your thinking and thereby it leads to consciousness pollution. You are programmed with words like career, winning, scalability, dreaming big, etc. They all look like positive words, but they are actually dangerous to the individual psyche because the thought that is implanted is largely unrealistic. (See ‘CHOOSINGNEEDS, WANTS, AND ASPIRATIONS’, ‘Planningyour Career’, and ‘PositiveThinking’).

The objective of education ought to be to mold the individual to be a better person inculcating self-discipline, value system, and morality. However, now education has been used to make people intellectual slaves who can offer either skilled or manual labor.

The objective of modern education is to make you insecure, dissatisfied, and greedy. It puts you into a rat race where you spend your lifetime fighting for your physical, psychological, and social survival. Once your thinking gets corrupted, it is very difficult to come off the toxicity. You may even go to the extent of hating me for saying this. This is What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Educated Thinking?

Know why I am doing a series on this?

What Psychologists Don’t Talk About?

Let me know if I am wrong. I have started this series because there are hundreds of things psychologists don’t talk about. I feel that it would benefit everyone if they did so. I hope at least now, they will make a beginning.

This is an attempt to bring to the fore what has been hidden for a very long time.

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What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Distorted Thinking?

What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Nurtured Thinking?

What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Structured Thinking?

What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Heightened Thinking?