LINKS BETWEEN SCHOOL UNIFORMS, MILITARY DICTATORSHIP AND NUCLEAR ENERGY
Sam Carana
ENERGY
Many people instinctively feel that there are links between school
uniforms and dictatorship. We live in a time where many things are
centralized and controlled by government, and where uniformity is
imposed upon people, because those in power feel that imposing such an
ideology will help them to stay in their position of power. In
Germany, people now may believe that it is normal when they are
allowed to choose what kind of food they want to buy for dinner. But
not too long ago, in East Germany, government bureaucrats virtually
decided that for people. It's important to note that both left-wing
and right-wing government politicians can fall prey to dictatorial
ideologies. It is simply dictatorial to dictate what someone should
wear, just like it is dictatorial to prescibe what people should eat
for dinner.
Dictators can only remain in power through their control over the
military. The politics of uniformity, dictatorship and centralization
have given us huge electricity networks controlled by a single party
with a small number of large power plants, typically coal-fired or
nuclear-powered. In that sense, nuclear power and school uniforms go
hand in hand. Dictatorial regimes are keen to have nuclear power
plants, as this gives them the technology and the resources for
nuclear weapons. Dictators are not concerned about safety and health
of people, they are only out to keep their position of power.
Mandatory school uniforms and military dictatorship go hand in hand.
Dictators are keen to use schools as fertile grounds to breed
patriotic soldiers. The military is glorified and imitated at school,
in parades, hymns, pledges, ceremonies, flags, uniforms and sport. All
this is to nurture hostility from a young age towards those deemed to
be different, so that boys when they are still at impressionable age,
can be easily drafted into the military and be used for cannon fodder
and as robots that will kill any "enemy" at the dictator's command.
But even in countries that are widely regerded as democracies, there
may be a huge military-industrial complex that operates without much
accountibility and openness, and where uniformity is the norm.
Cheers!
Sam Carana