Educating, Or Enlisting. Progressing Or Preventing: How Ethics Are Confused As Gospel...
Jen
Tamra...
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
Some folks have ethics as a basic human premise they were blessed with at birth. Others have to be taught a schools version of proper ethics, and they hold onto them like the gospels regardless if it is the right thing to do or not.
Who came up with the idea of college. Or certifications for that matter. Or our entire educational system where the first team of people that got together called themselves teachers. Sold there art to others who then became teachers as the first folks progressed to professors, then deans and so forth. How the hell did they get to be right? Because they were first? Does following the same tired model of education still make it right, or does it just make us lazy? Is school much less about knowledge gained, and much more about making sure stupid people aren't quite "as" stupid? Or is our current educational system structured specifically to keep folks in the cage, the veritable panopticon we all will have to survive in, and submit to as we grow older. hoops
Take Ethics for instance. Really hard to define actually because its based on philosophy. Simply put ethics are meant to address morality questions like right, wrong, good, evil, just, virtuous, despicable. Easy right? Are you then also aware that we see ethics in very different formats, from very different philosophical minds. For instance, Utilitarians look towards the greater good of the majority. Essentially if you would kill one to save a million, you are Utilitarian. A Dentologist on the other hand believes it unethical to do wrong...ever. To a Dentologist the ends never really justify the means. Each act is intrinsic to the immediate action itself regardless the outcome. Therefore killing one is just wrong, even if it save millions. The list goes on from Nicomachean, Non-cognitive all the way to Nihilism. But they all seem to serve one purpose splendidly. They give people something to disagree on, therefor giving them something to fight about.
So yeah I know you could wrap around argue this shit all day, but the fact still remains, some of us are born without a strong enough moral compass to point us in the right direction so we need so called teachers to lead us down the path of righteousness. Of course that is assuming said instructor is righteous enough. Do you know where your kids are right now, and more importantly who is supposedly teaching them, instead of letting them learn on their own.
I wager that many more of us could find our own very virtuous behavior defined by any just society if we were only given the chance, as opposed to being force feed lines of bullshit from questionable sources since before we can remember. With that kind of brainwashing form that early an age it takes a incredibly unique mind to figure out the deception. It takes incredibly clear vision to see the invisible cage.
Clearly there are just gonna be stupid, despicable, atrocious assholes out there. There must be, or else the good ones would have no tests of their virtuous justice, which before you argue, I have like seven forms virtue. But I digress. Maybe we are building many more robot esq rejects by training supposed undeniable ethics on our youths earlier than what they know how to process. Therefore the slightly weaker ones who just needed more time to process things on their own, are much more destined to become part of the vast machine of bullshit, instead of someone rising up to change it.
All teachers are not bad, but almost all teachers must fit themselves into a strangle hold even they may realize as unjust, unfair, and uncompromising. Hardly the best case scenario to teach the decision makers of tomorrow to make profound, new, inventive decisions on the spot, regardless of what some book told them to do. Or some fascist teacher.
Maybe I'm the only one who would much rather have a madman at the helm following his gut, than the one following a standard of ethics hundreds of years old just because they were told they had to. Maybe I'm not. Maybe instead of promoting a code of conduct, we organically promote the reintegration of a society spawned by the folks who are going to live in it twenty years from now, instead of the assholes who haven't done a very good job on the maintenance end thus far. Currently, clearly, the way shit is ain't right, and it may very well all stem with what you believe when ethics hits the table. And if you believe this little berg of ours is on the right path, then keep walking. But if you believe somewhere we took a disastrous turn, then stop following every other asshole off the cliff, and taking the leaders out of tomorrow with you.
Strength:
Rest
For Time:
30-Deadlifts 95/135
30-Pistols
30-Burpees
30-Pull-ups
2 Rounds
Post time to comments.
16:26 supine row to save hands (these were harder for me than pullups!)
Posted by: Mo | February 28, 2011 at 06:05 AM
Coming from a teacher, if parents did their job of teaching basic morals and ethics in the home then whatever the schools taught wouldn't really matter. Unfortunately, a lot of my students have parents that dump that duty in me as well as countless other responsibilities.
Yes, there are times when I have to follow protocol in my job. However, I never feel like I'm compromising my own beliefs or way of doing things in my classroom. I encourage free thinking and creativity as much as possible and hopefully my students will be stronger for it.
Posted by: Min | February 28, 2011 at 06:21 AM
16:xx - 1st time I've ever done pistols on the ground rather than a box thanks to my magic shoes! They were ugly, but they counted.
Posted by: heather mc | February 28, 2011 at 07:08 AM
19:30 M
Posted by: holly | February 28, 2011 at 07:25 AM
14:17
Posted by: runmelrun | February 28, 2011 at 09:38 AM
21:18 bad Monday
Posted by: jen w | February 28, 2011 at 11:12 AM
22:?? brutual
Posted by: Angela | February 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM
11:30 M
Posted by: Joey Franchise | February 28, 2011 at 01:43 PM
15:54
Pistols on box... suckfest
Posted by: Min | February 28, 2011 at 07:03 PM
22:34(m)
Not feeling it today :(
Posted by: JN | February 28, 2011 at 09:25 PM
14:15m (I think)
30 eighted box step-ups, 50 sit-ups, 30 squats, 2 min plank....2 rds
Posted by: Mindy | February 28, 2011 at 09:27 PM
18:00 no pistols for me! I need the magic shoes!
Posted by: betsy | February 28, 2011 at 09:28 PM
20:10
Mindy if 15+ is a suckfest what the heck is 20+??!!
I think I still grabbed the Masters division - Bartimus had that (m) thing goin on! Tough when u get as old as him, yes he turned fifty-freakin-one yesterday!
Posted by: Ken | February 28, 2011 at 09:50 PM
easy on the "old" there, ken. i'd say we all look screamin good for our age. happy belated, bart! and once again there's shoulder surgery in line for the festivities, eh? that sucks.
Posted by: k | March 01, 2011 at 07:20 AM
15:29 or something like that...
Posted by: Jen D | March 01, 2011 at 09:59 AM
18:08(m)--Pistols & Pullups
Posted by: Lori | March 01, 2011 at 09:25 PM
12:20M strength core movements instead of dl, squats for pistols, 15 burpees, and 15 green pullups two rounds....great time on this kara! Wow! Thanks josh!!
Posted by: keena | March 01, 2011 at 11:46 PM