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To further edify my most esteemed American and worldwide audience and also to clear up the misunderstandings of the French who, like me, always felt like there was something wrong in what they were taught at school even though they couldn't really dot the i's, I'd like to offer the following passage of the Vincent Teacher's book published by Bordas, as quoted by Jean-François Revel in his book "The Useless Knowledge" (Chapter XI "The treachery of the teachers" - Ed. Grasset).Be advised that the teacher's book is nothing less than the manual destined to guide the teachers, civil servants of the Ministry of Education, in their duty.
"We'll demonstrate that there are two camps in the world:Don't feel like disgorging yet?
- One is imperialist and antidemocratic (USA)
- The other is anti-imperialist and democratic (USSR),
and we'll precise their goals:
- World domination by crushing the anti-imperialist camp (USA)
- Struggle against imperialism and fascism, reinforcement of democracy (USSR)."
Okay, grab a doggy bag, a toilet bowl or your stepmother's sleeping bag 'cause I'm going to tell you when this book was published.
Ready?
Okay.
1980.
1-9-8-0.
Go get a glass of water, wipe up your mouth. Sorry for the annoyance.
This is a literal translation. The author really put USA and USSR between parentheses. Probably to make sure that no teacher slips up, fairly innocently or by straight duplicity I guess. You know how those enemies of the People are.
It helps to understand a lot about the situation nowadays right?
All right. For every action, there's a reaction.
Reaction:
- Friendly advice to Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and the (unfortunately) numerous Eastern Europe countries who learned the hard way how tragically and excessively wrong this French teacher's manual is: stay away from the European Union at all cost and choose the imperialist anti-democratic camp.
It's all right. Britain already does.
- Grim plea to the United States: test the MoaB over France. And pave it. The British need more parking.
- Firm injunction to the Chinese, North Korean, Vietnamese, etc. political "educators": destroy all your Vincent Teacher's book (Bordas ed.) within a week. Else... face the MoaBlix.
- Warm consolation and a pat on my back: it feels so good to learn that I wasn't that paranoid finally. But of course, now I'm wondering if I was paranoid enough which somehow invalidates the first statement. That's the trouble with paranoia.
Now all I need is a smoke grenade, a gas mask and a helicopter. (Cheers to Bill Watterson).
And possibly a Green Card. Heh.
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