Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin

Here is the terrifying truth about homeschooling: You are 100% responsible. No scapegoats. No luxury of blaming other teachers for not doing their jobs. Zero excuses. Just you. And there's more bad news. Parents who choose homeschooling aren't escaping educational problems. They're trading them for a mirror that reflects their own flaws. Your kids' biggest educational obstacle might be staring back at you in the bathroom mirror each morning. Your impatience, laziness, and apathy don't disappear when you homeschool. They're amplified. You'll have front-row IMAX tickets to watch your own flaws shape your children in real-time, in high definition, 24/7. When you seek more influence over your children's education (and you should) you get EXACTLY what you asked for. For better or worse. So what's the good news? The good news is the same as the bad news. You're 100% responsible for these problems. With God's grace, you can start weeding out your flaws. It's slow and painful, but taking the log from your own eye is the essential first step. Homeschooling isn't just education for your children. It's sanctification for YOU. Embrace it. Start tugging those logs out with both hands. This process is the path to real growth for your entire family. Public schools offer the false comfort of an idol, a temporary opiate rather than a cure. Homeschooling forces you to take a scalpel to your own heart and face problems honestly. It's harder, but it's real. And one final thing...👇

@GaryCardone It blew my mind.

@FoundationDads Sounds right to me

In 1895, a French social psychologist named Gustave Le Bon published a book so dangerous that it became the private playbook of dictators for the next century. Hitler quoted it. Mussolini kept it by his bedside. Edward Bernays used it to build modern propaganda. The book's name? "The Crowd." Its core claim: The moment people form a group, they become stupid. Not slightly dumber. Fundamentally, structurally incapable of rational thought. And the tactics he described for controlling them still work on you right now. 🧵 (thread)

@Robjbe It reads like a lot of things.

@FoundationDads Reads like the entirety of the Moslem and Hindu world.

@SailedThat You're welcome and thanks for reading.

@FoundationDads Great write up, thanks!

@StephanieValis That's ...strange. Thanks for letting me know.

@FoundationDads Just so you're aware, I subscribed to your site and tried to reply to the email like you asked, but it bounced immediately saying you shouldn't try to email substack authors that way but leave comments and stuff instead. Might want to update that.

Madness among men is rare Madness among groups of men is the rule

@grimericaoutlaw Thanks for sharing

@FoundationDads Excellent book. Check out our audio of it.... adultbrain.ca/the-crowd-a-st… in podcast form or wherever audiobooks are sold.

@colderwild I think everyone has a time they can point to.

@FoundationDads I can think of one time when I was part of a crowd, as defined here. There must have been others; this is one I am conscious of. Nothing bad came of it, thankfully. But it's really damned scary to look back on.

@mschriner Yep, and relatively short.

@FoundationDads Available at archive.org in assorted formats

@Loggingmedia Of course Nietzsche spoke of this.

@FoundationDads In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule" --Nietzche, 1886

If repetition is the most important form of rhetoric, it should make you think hard about the music you listen to. What messages are you repeating and remembering? Over and over. There is a reason that God commands his people to sing together. Music is too important to consume mindlessly.

@piathewarrior The biggest manifestation in a while.

@FoundationDads Covid 19; Covid 19, Covid 19, Covid 19....

@jonathankjones Me too. Glad X hasn't totally buried my threads.

@FoundationDads I love learning about significant books I’ve never heard of before. 👍

@StephanieValis Thanks for reading!

@FoundationDads Really grateful for the excerpts and information. Thank you for sharing that.

@StephanieValis Precisely

@FoundationDads Sounds like social media scrolling.

@pietermarx The English translation is titled "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind." gutenberg.org/cache/epub/445…

@FoundationDads It was not called The Crowd.

@PhineusPhineus No neutrality.

@FoundationDads The crowd will serve Christ or Barabbas. There are no other options.

@scrotely Thanks for reading.

@FoundationDads Wow. Thank you, much food for thought.

@Judeboylemusic Oooh might not be a coincidence.

@FoundationDads Came across Le Bon a while ago.After seeing his pic I was struck by the likeness to Duran Duran singer Sim Le Bon🤔🤔

@superwup You're welcome!

@FoundationDads Excellent Merci!

@MarcusNoirelius Most impressive.

@FoundationDads Bro's beard got a beard 🫪