America’s Terrible Culture of Failure Prevents Needed National Failure

Suspicions are growing rapidly that America has, fundamentally, produced a disgusting culture of failure entering into the 21st century; just look around and see banks, car corporations, etc, failing; or, rather, is it the actual case that massive government interventionism is supposed to totally prevent or, perhaps, at least slow down the possibility of failure?   

But, the corruptive desire to socially, culturally or, much more worse, morally deny failure or to mask it or its consequences has permeated the national culture.  Look at Outcome Based Education (OBE) as a prominent and growing example of scholastic decline, being that it is a most logical outgrowth of the progressive education movement, which was started mainly by John Dewey, a devoted socialist, in the early 20th century.   Dewey and such intellectuals had pushed this nation, moreover, further toward collectivism through support for Big Government.

He sincerely believed in the socialization of the child as a communitarian participant; the child was to be nurtured by the public-school educational system, done within an egalitarian-democratic society, dedicated to cultural reductionism to the lowest common denominator for the people of any modern and progressive society; there is not to be, according to Dewey, any antidemocratic or anti-egalitarian concern for the forever supremely elitist goal of academic excellence.   And, the American welfare-warfare State encourages such domestic failure.

Children, through OBE, are freely allowed to be actually praised if they think, e.g., that 2 + 2 = 5 or 6, not correctly 4, if it is, thus, so profoundly felt that these students had sincerely and genuinely tried to come up with the correct solution to a mathematics problem.   Why is this so?  Because, it is degenerately thought, there is the supposed higher need to prevent any real and, perhaps, permanent loss of a child’s always needed and oh-so-important self-esteem.  Education be damned!   

The disreputable concern, within this rapidly spreading culture of failure, which now grips, more or less, the entire American economy, is to avoid offending people with the truth.  The truth, especially its bold acknowledgement and assent to it has real consequences in solid terms of individual responsibility and, thus, associated accountability.  So, people are now told, by the popularly assumed political, social, economic, etc. experts, that certain gigantic businesses or even whole sectors of the American economy are simply “too big to fail.”