Starved People Cannot Be Taught

(To be edited and expanded on)

Keys on the Minnesota Starvation Study (a study worth studying):

"Starved people cannot be taught democracy."

Starved people cannot be taught anything. To me this applies to the obese who are actually nutrient and energy starved as well (it's a true paradox but an explainable one). It applies to the "skinny fat" as well, who have no noticeable muscle mass and what is man without strength? In short, it applies to the American people. We are starved for muscle mass and healthy fats. We are being starved intentionally in this area and in the educational one to keep us there. It is no coincidence that Plato, that shining star of the West, was a wrestler and was also presented in ideal physical form. Bodily fitness and intelligence are connected with thinking. We have lost our well deserved Greek inheritance.

"To talk about the will of the people when you aren't feeding them is perfect hogwash."

Renan – Democracy

"Reason and science are the products of mankind, but it is chimerical to seek reason directly for the people and through the people. It is not essential to the existence of reason that all should be familiar with it; and even if all had to be initiated, this could not be achieved through democracy which seems fated to lead to the extinction of all arduous forms of culture and all highest forms of learning. The maxim that society exists only for the well-being and freedom of the individuals composing it does not seem to be in conformity with nature’s plans, which care only for the species and seem ready to sacrifice the individual. It is much to be feared that the last word of democracy thus understood (and let me hasten to add that it is susceptible of a different interpretation) would be a form of society in which a degenerate mass would have no thought beyond that of enjoying the ignoble pleasures of the vulgar."

– Ernest Renan