HUMAN METAMORPHOSE

To the best of our knowledge, of all the animals on planet Earth, it is the human species that possesses the most complex and capable brain on the planet. We take great pride in this attribute.

But we know that, despite possessing this magnificent brain, not only do few humans use its full potential, they rarely use it for anything but immediate personal needs, just like all other primitive animal species possessing brains with lesser capabilities.

We also know the human is the only animal that deliberately kills its own kind for pleasure, and not for food. We know it is the only animal that sadistically tortures others of its kind, and mistreats members of other species. We know it is the only animal that pollutes the planet and callously destroys unrenewable natural resources with indifference to the needs of future living beings.

Why? Why is there universal misuse of a magnificent creation such as the human brain? Why has our species been given this instrument, if we rarely use it except for individual, selfish purpose?

Perhaps the answer lies in the process of metamorphose?

We're familiar with the transformation of a tadpole into a frog, and a caterpillar into a butterfly. The biological process of "metamorphose" changes one life form into a completely different form with different physical characteristics and patterns of behavior. Perhaps, it is necessary for humanity to undergo a form of metamorphose before it can behave in a more civilized way?

We know that the human animal is born with a brain empty of practical knowledge, a condition that the early Romans labeled "tabla rasa" the empty slate.

We know the information instilled within a child's brain influences the kind of adult the child will become; that it is the "education" bestowed by society upon the child that determines the child's truths, beliefs, and habits of behavior—which includes information taught by parents, preachers, teachers, and assorted social institutions.

Logically, then, it should be mandatory for a society to give each and every one of its children an education that would prepare them to successfully meet the challenges of life. Such an education could be considered an "essential" education, a basic education.

What is an essential human education?

It is one that would would teach young people how to use the brain as it was meant to be used: to think, to really think.

It would teach how to distinguish between fact and fiction, between truth and theory, and how to apply the methods of logic to problem solving.

It would impress upon every child that attempting to solve the social problems of today without studying the past to learn how and why the problems were first created is like going into battle without knowing the identity of the enemy.

An essential education would bestow more than knowledge or vocational skills. Whether by trained teacher or well-meaning parents, it would condition young people to control emotional desires and instill values, attitudes, and positive lifetime habits of thought and behavior that would influences the type of society an individual helps to produce—or accept.

Such an education would guide a young person along the path from child to mature, intelligent adult; from the low, animal-level to the high, human-level. In essence, it would stimulate the process of human metamorphosis. It may not change the child's physical appearance, but it is certainly the catalyst that will produce dramatic change to patterns of thought and physical behavior.

This transformation would not only help young people to solve the problems they face today, but also to successfully meet and overcome the unimaginable and unexpected challenges of the future. And this is what is necessary if Americans are to stop the mindless descent into primitive idiocy with which our rulers program us.

By extension, the process of human metamorphosis would transorm an animal-level society, populated with low, animal-level people, into a high, "human-level" society where logic and reason reign; where citizens cooperate rather than compete. Where citizens make and expedite long-range plans rather than react with animal emotion to immediate crisis, and where they understand that consideration for the welfare of other people—and for society—is the only way to produce true prosperity and eliminate conflict and war.

This is what human metamorphose is all about.

Note: There is a horrendous disagreement in the U.S. as to what the function and content of a public education should be, and the best ways to deliver such education to the student. As a result there is chaos and confusion throughout the 50 state public school systems.
Whether this is an honest condition, or merely part of privileged America's strategy to keep the children of commoners ignorant may never be known.
But it is suspect, for the forces of criticism concentrate solely upon the deficiencies of "public" schools and never focus upon the characteristics of private or religious schools that should also be brought to public scrutiny.
They ignore the truth that religious schools program students to conformity and obedience to religious hierarchy and superstition.
They ignore the truth that public schools prepare students to be the workers of society; the force that keeps society functioning efficiently while producing great wealth, not for themselves, but for society's leaders and rulers, while private and religious schools prepare children of wealthier families to become these leaders and rulers.

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Perhaps, common working families of the U.S.A. should no longer ignore these truths. Perhaps, they should demand an essential education for their children.