Summary of One Thought Scares Me...by Richard Dreyfuss E-Book

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• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

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Richard Dreyfuss' latest work, One Thought Scares Me..., explains how the lack of civics education in American education has led to the deterioration of all aspects of the lives of us, and suggests the path to reclaiming our American ideals.

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Summary of One Thought Scares Me...by Richard Dreyfuss

We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

Dreyfuss suggests reclaiming American ideals through civics education.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

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We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children

What We Don't Wish Them to Know

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Introduction

David Sarnoff was an immigrant who became one of the most admired Americans of the twentieth century. He created and owned NBC Radio and the NBC television network, and owned the company that produced RCA Victor television sets. After World War II, America was at the top of the world, admired and respected, and had saved the civilized world from an uncivilized nightmare. Sarnoff's RCA Victor TV set was a new technology, and the American people were hooked on the delivery of images of fantasy and reality, entertainment and current events. When Sarnoff sold the TV, it stayed on and recorded everything it could, and sold the information it received to advertising.

David Sarnoff's story of "Lying Under Oath" is an example of how people would react to him if he had been revealed as a con man. This book discusses the fear and anger that would be generated if Sarnoff was revealed as a con man, and how Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of a change of rules and encouraging users to assassinate Putin is an example of how society has changed since then

A Spiral of Decay

The most important details in this text are that American public schools have not taught the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and governance theory, which were the first to attempt a sensible approach to create fairness in governance. This has led to a spiral of decay in the country, and the author believes that it is absurd and suicidal to think our children could run this complex country without learning anything about its government first. The most important details in this text are that the United States stopped teaching civility and the core values of the Enlightenment philosophy that underpin our Constitution and Bill of Rights seventy-five years ago. This was a big deal, as it separated us from all other countries, created intellectual creativity and musculature, and unlocked the shackles that had tied us to enforced ignorance since the beginning of recorded history. This was a big deal, and deserved headlines, investigations, protests, and silence.

The most important details in this text are that contemporary America is a tragedy because it has obscured the essence of its civil society and allowed the meaning of America to be reduced to guesswork. The thieves were smart and patient, taking only enough to make us lose our way, then removing anything they could carry until they left a stripped and empty schoolhouse. They also stole the teaching of the Constitution, the birth-tale of the nation, and the civic tools that allowed for intelligence to become creative. They also lost faith in themselves and the values and virtues that brought them so far. The most important details in this text are that America has not studied the Constitution and its Bill of Rights in over fifty years, and that the children of today and the time to come are not capable of running America when they are called to do so.

Will Durant, a respected historian, said that history is to a nation like memory is to an individual, and that without history, a nation becomes disconnected and drifts away like an enormous balloon that escapes from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. The most important details in this text are that people have become passive rather than active in politics, and that they have been denied the Constitution, the Enlightenment philosophy, and the birth tale of their country. The author is not a cynic, nor does he belong to the "gaggle of Hollywood Liberals," but he is a "Lib-o-Conserve-o-Rad-o-Middle of the road-o" who has been reading history for many years and loves reading authors with opposing views. He doesn't take notes because he was reading for pleasure, not in formal preparation for compiling a list. The author is an American who has written a book about the importance of civics education in public schools.

He believes that anyone who opposes this statement is corrupt, evil, or lacking in basic intelligence. He has read American history since he was eight or nine years old and has been speaking for thirty years about this danger. He has seen audiences become filled with outrage, but it has disappeared before they reached their cars. America has become expert at distraction and denial in the past fifty years, forgetting that Civil Society was achieved by constancy, not devoting one semester to it. The most important details in this text are that our ancestors created an invention of the mind that was a triumph of moral progress in the secular world, only to drop it in our own time.