There is a trial going on in Louisville in which a young woman is suing McDonald’s because she was subjected to a bizarre strip search and other indignities by a McDonald’s employee who was following the orders of a man on a telephone.  When you consider the facts of that case, you have to wonder why none of the participants used any common sense and refused to go along with the hoax. 

Americans used to be independent people who could think for themselves and would not put up with such nonsense.  But now, thanks to the indoctrination in schools, many of us have lost all common sense and are simply prepared to obey authorities, leaving us like lambs to be led to the slaughter.  

Schools are doing a terrible job of imparting the skills needed for success in life, such as teaching students to read, analyze, and think, but they are doing a wonderful job of teaching students to obey authority without question.  We now have “zero tolerance” policies in schools, so even the principals exhibit no judgment or common sense, expelling one student for having aspirins in her purse, another for bringing a small knife to cut a piece of fruit, and another  for drawing a picture of a gun.  So we probably should not be surprised when people mindlessly follow the orders of a person on a telephone telling them to abuse a teenage employee or when the teenage employee herself simply does as she is told, no matter how bizarre the orders.

As people become obedient servants of the “authorities”, they also become incapable of defending themselves against any threat and resort to the courts instead.  For example, a group of fifteen blacks just won a judgment of $600,000 against a Denny’s restaurant because their waiter gave them bad service and used racial slurs.  Imagine that!  Instead of calling the manager to complain or just getting up and leaving the restaurant, they sued, and some jury awarded them over half a million dollars in damages! 

Could these wimpy, helpless Americans possibly be descendents of the self-reliant pioneers who tamed the wilderness, or of the people who were known for their Yankee ingenuity, or of the slaves who learned to read in defiance of the authorities, some of whom even dared to risk their lives to win their freedom?   

How do we stand a chance against Islamic militants who want to kill us if we don’t even have enough sense to defend ourselves against a voice on a telephone or a rude waiter?  Since the schools are teaching helplessness, who can be relied upon to teach self-reliance, independent thinking, and the courage to do what is right? 

 
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