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teddogPlease read this article, The Last Resort.
Doesn't that make you feel dirty all over?
This is basically boot camp for kids of rich parents. $40, 000 US equals about my father's yearly income after taxes, so it's not exactly the middle or lower class using this program. I've often wondered how rich people waste their money and I think I've got an answer here.
Geez, would it hurt just to talk to your kids? Sit down and figure out why they are acting the way they are, not have them trucked off to some heck hole and beaten senseless.
All the conditioning reminds me of an episode of The Prisoner called "The General" a bit more than 1984 (which everyone compares this to). Why? Well, in The General, the people in the village are exposed to a new process called "Speedlearn". This process imprints information into the subject's cerebral cortex. Because it's inprinted and not "learned", so to speak, the information just sits there and the subject can't really analize it. They just "recall" it, although everyone has it remembered the same way:
Number 2: Enjoy the lecture?
Prisoner: What lecture?
Number 2: It's a great experiment, Number 6. You can learn a lot.
Prisoner: History's not my subject.
Number 2: Isn't it? When was the Treaty of Adrianople?
Prisoner: September 1829.
Number 2: What happened in 1830?
Prisoner: Greek independence was assured and guaranteed.
Number 2: By whom?
Prisoner: Russia, France, Britain.
Number 2: Who was Bismarck's ally against Danish Prince Christian of Glücksburg?
Prisoner: Frederick of Augustenburg. He and the German Bundestag had never accepted the Treaty of London in 1852. Bismarck wanted war, but he wanted it waged by Prussia and Austria in alliance and not by the whole German Bund. He realized that a successful war against the Danes in 1864 would serve the same purpose as Cavour of Italy's entrance into the Crimean War...
Number 2 has been watching the Prisoner's speech with satisfaction, and they speak the conclusion in unison.
Both: ... namely that it would indicate future leadership and would at the same time raise Prussia's prestige.
Number 2: Very good. Ten out of ten. Don't underestimate yourself, Number 6. And don't underestimate me.
However, the subjects often don't really know what they are talking about:
Number 12: Oh, er, what was the Treaty of Adrianople?
Prisoner: September 1829.
Number 12: Wrong. I said "what", not "when". You need some special coaching.
How does this relate to Wwasp's program? Notice what some of the "good" kids say about the program: "It saved my life". When asked how they would have died had it not been for Wwasp, most blank out or claim they would have been poor or not successful in life.
Really kiddies, it's hard to judge your success in life WHEN YOU'RE A TEENAGER!! I think that kind of reflection is best left until you're retired, at least. Even then, how do you judge a successful life? What's wrong with low paying jobs? Why is it that these kids feel they shouldn't be homeless?
What about the rest of the world? A lot of us learned how to get along in the world from the "School of Hard Knocks". I support that over this place. It's a rough road, but I've almost made it through teenagerhood.
For more fun, read this and this, which has quotes from the current director questioning the centre and it's practices. Priceless.
Something really isn't adding up here and it's not just the staged photos on the company website.
I'm really lost for words.
(Special thanks to SCBD, where I found the transcripts for The General.)
Doesn't that make you feel dirty all over?
This is basically boot camp for kids of rich parents. $40, 000 US equals about my father's yearly income after taxes, so it's not exactly the middle or lower class using this program. I've often wondered how rich people waste their money and I think I've got an answer here.
Geez, would it hurt just to talk to your kids? Sit down and figure out why they are acting the way they are, not have them trucked off to some heck hole and beaten senseless.
All the conditioning reminds me of an episode of The Prisoner called "The General" a bit more than 1984 (which everyone compares this to). Why? Well, in The General, the people in the village are exposed to a new process called "Speedlearn". This process imprints information into the subject's cerebral cortex. Because it's inprinted and not "learned", so to speak, the information just sits there and the subject can't really analize it. They just "recall" it, although everyone has it remembered the same way:
Number 2: Enjoy the lecture?
Prisoner: What lecture?
Number 2: It's a great experiment, Number 6. You can learn a lot.
Prisoner: History's not my subject.
Number 2: Isn't it? When was the Treaty of Adrianople?
Prisoner: September 1829.
Number 2: What happened in 1830?
Prisoner: Greek independence was assured and guaranteed.
Number 2: By whom?
Prisoner: Russia, France, Britain.
Number 2: Who was Bismarck's ally against Danish Prince Christian of Glücksburg?
Prisoner: Frederick of Augustenburg. He and the German Bundestag had never accepted the Treaty of London in 1852. Bismarck wanted war, but he wanted it waged by Prussia and Austria in alliance and not by the whole German Bund. He realized that a successful war against the Danes in 1864 would serve the same purpose as Cavour of Italy's entrance into the Crimean War...
Number 2 has been watching the Prisoner's speech with satisfaction, and they speak the conclusion in unison.
Both: ... namely that it would indicate future leadership and would at the same time raise Prussia's prestige.
Number 2: Very good. Ten out of ten. Don't underestimate yourself, Number 6. And don't underestimate me.
However, the subjects often don't really know what they are talking about:
Number 12: Oh, er, what was the Treaty of Adrianople?
Prisoner: September 1829.
Number 12: Wrong. I said "what", not "when". You need some special coaching.
How does this relate to Wwasp's program? Notice what some of the "good" kids say about the program: "It saved my life". When asked how they would have died had it not been for Wwasp, most blank out or claim they would have been poor or not successful in life.
Really kiddies, it's hard to judge your success in life WHEN YOU'RE A TEENAGER!! I think that kind of reflection is best left until you're retired, at least. Even then, how do you judge a successful life? What's wrong with low paying jobs? Why is it that these kids feel they shouldn't be homeless?
What about the rest of the world? A lot of us learned how to get along in the world from the "School of Hard Knocks". I support that over this place. It's a rough road, but I've almost made it through teenagerhood.
For more fun, read this and this, which has quotes from the current director questioning the centre and it's practices. Priceless.
Something really isn't adding up here and it's not just the staged photos on the company website.
I'm really lost for words.
(Special thanks to SCBD, where I found the transcripts for The General.)
