An old Aussie band Skyhooks had it sussed..."Horror movie - it's the 6.30 News." Every instalment from MSM is generally a story of unhappiness. Why don't they put on a few happy items each day ? Something nice like a little girls puppy being found, but no, it's misery, war, bombs, carnage and destruction that keeps selling newspapers (for those who buy and read them) and the TV's on at night.

Who really cares about the likes of Packer, Stokes, Tinkler and Bond...or Bill Gates for that matter ? Time passes and we see the cracks appear, Bondy gaoled - who else with all these folks has skeletons to hide, which one of them has truly and honestly acted ethically to obtain the huge sums of money/assets they possess?

For the average Joe & Jane on the street it is nothing but a dream. Sure there are Lotto winners every week and statistics reveal that most are worse off a year later after the 'Big Win' than they were before it.

In a class of some 250 young Australian men that joined the Army Apprentices School with me in 1977, there are less than a handful of us who are truly 'rich' in the monetary/assets sense e.g. millionaires or multi millionaires, the majority of us are battlers in varying degrees with mortgages and the everyday issues of every one else. When we joined up a house purchase was somewhere in the region of 4 to 6 times our annual salaries - today it is in the region of 12 times a persons salary. How on Earth can young people get the deposit together let alone service the loans required to effect owning their own home ?

What I would celebrate is seeing a real set of ethical guidlines, laws if you want, that prevent the corruption in politics from directing policies via funding, grafts, kickbacks and backroom antics...but then I woke up.

On Monday October 24, Radio National Morning Life Matters, first presentation discussion was on school students studying for examinations, highlighting the HSC examinations.

The focus on the conversation was how many students were taking ADHD medication, ADHD medication described as the illegal drug to consume “speed”.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/are-ritalin-and-dexies-getting-you-through-the-working-day-(and/7958774

Students needing to overcome mental stress causing students' difficultly in remembering studying material, indicates how examinations are more to do with stress testing under hurrying repressive time limits to complete examination questions, students' ability to function.
Stress testing and not the long term useful quality of information for future employment, students taking ADHD medication are cheating.

Sports athletes taking any performance enhancing medication which gives athletes unfair advantages, on being tested, found positive, are punished. Taking speed to get students throw examinations seems to have been well known for many years, yet rarely gets commented on.

The use of teenagers taking ADHD medications “speed” has after examination consequences, getting teenagers off speed, could lead to long term addiction problems. That being mentioned during the Radio National discussion session.
This would somewhat provide documented evidence that school education encourages teenagers to indulge in speed and other medicating drugs, being legal or illegal.

Drug addiction messes with human intelligence, therefore drug addiction would not be something that intelligent people concerned with their own wealthy status, would believe in a Darwin survival of the fittest ideology, many other people's drug addictions are a good thing for them and future children's benefit.

On a similar topic... on October 21, SBS1 “Secrets Of The Tudors”
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/782329411987/Secrets-Of-The-Tudors

I managed to capture the last 10 minutes. The narrator was expressing contraception, “most of the methods of contraception were outlandish” as well as using the rhythm method, women were wearing various: herbs; animal droppings and guts around their necks like jewellery to prevent pregnancy. Often using herbs to induce abortions.

Queen Elizabeth the first put sugar on everything, narrator said Elizabeth cleaned her teeth with honey. Sugar was rotting Queen Elizabeth's teeth. By the time Elizabeth died, most of her teeth were gone.

Several other documentaries stated how after sugar was introduced, consumption of sugar and resulting tooth decay, caused untreated dental problems... many people died from rotten teeth. Many people were cleaning their teeth with sugar.

Another documentary on Elizabethan period stated, water supplies were so filthy people didn't risk bathing in water, instead rubbed themselves with linen cloth, eventually washing the cloth.
People drunk alcohol: wine and beer in fear of water born diseases.

If water were captured off slate roofs, and/or river waters filtered through linen cloth and then boiled to kill bacteria, clean waters could have been used to wash sugar out of people's mouths. Water may even be clean enough to drink.

Much of the ABC3 Horrible Histories are describing the Tudor period and many stated royal periods on how ridiculously stupid beliefs both rich and poor people believed

Modern generation people I believe would believe they are better informed people compared to the above Tudor mentioned behavioural stupidity.

Most Tudor period people whom were rich enough not to need to work, working was considered beneath their social class. Rich class had plenty of time to think how best to solve problems to realise what sugar was doing to their health and their teeth.

I say, education of the Elizabethan period was making people stupid. That little difference exists today.

Education in the Elizabethan period was teaching Greek, Latin and performing English speaking Shakespearean plays. King Henry the VIII was considered to be very educated, speaking 5 languages. Henry played tennis and gambled on tennis matches, gambling was an excepted pass time. Henry loved dangerous jousting until a jousting wound with his horse falling on him damaged his leg, which caused him pain through the remainder of his life. His initial desires for athletic pursuits, marriage problems and needing to consult several advisors. I suggest Henry VIII was Henry's VII second choice as king, Henry's education didn't serve Henry as well as what could have been.

Languages have few reasons to think other than spelling, individual word meanings and forming sentences using correct accents.
I suggest religion and language education and limited story themes relating to people behaviours, that work thinking skills were intentionally repressed, keeping human brain capable of intelligence, dumb.

People were lead to believe myths which had no bases of truth, preventing realisation of thought. That the simplest easily seen problems with sugar and tobacco were ignored because people simply believed what they were told to believe. That few people realising how people merely excepted what they were told, promoted the stupidest ideas, amused themselves by how stupid ideas are easily excepted as true.

For both doctors and teachers, if tasks are completed quickly than both doctors and teachers are paid for the time spent. If doctors and teachers intentionally sabotage tasks, doctors and teachers can continue treating and teaching for many years.

Much of the stupidity could be blamed on the amount of alcohol people consumed. Yet I favour bad education beginning at an early childhood age, began the need for children to remember what children were told by authority teachers on children's fear of punishment, was true and brains scanned memories for known no reason to think and doubt far away, long ago, too small to see information. The need to want to feel correct, ignoring being incorrect, quickly moving onto the next opportunity to feel correct, not caring to get everything correct, denial, cutting corners no time to think hurrying assumptions are still modern day educations behavioural learning objectives.

I have heard several times from media presented psychologists that teenagers and young adults don't properly develop their brains until adults reach the age of 25 years. That problems young people have is due to normal brain development... no mention of school education mental stress.

I say, most adults that have untrained intelligent problem solving IQ levels to that of when they were aged 5 years old, same intelligent levels before first attending schools. The most, thought productive adults... on having been trained by advanced education studying in particular fields of learning... any untrained problem solving thinking capacity would have been realised before adults as children first attended school. Other than trained skills, most adults have the intellectual capacity of their own aged 5 years childhood. As young children are said to be thinking far more than adults. Adults as children may have been more intelligent.

Once children have entered schools, long hours of word spelling copying down sentences, listening to teachers teaching to curriculum test requirements, schooling mental stress represses any unnecessary thought that doesn't lead to increase examination grades. That students after school entertainments are encouraged by students to be as simple as possible, to reduce needs for prompting exhausted brains to realise anything that needs remembering. Rhythmic music becomes mentally exhausted teenagers after school distraction from prolonged feelings of school classroom mental stress.
As teenagers and young adults turn up at concerts and US political rallies, audience's screaming, blocks out brains feelings of mental stress, probably made worse by music and screaming.

Today's educated people's problem solving ability would not be any better than Tudor period's educated people.

Popular entertainment limits ideas similar to Tudor Shakespearean plays: violence; love; sword fighting; murders; greed; envy; conspiring... all of which is formulated into modern media information, reducing opportunities for human thought to think about what's being seen and heard. As the same themes are rolled over, there's little reason to think... only needing to judge some simple understanding instead.

Modern education makes humans dumb. Reading, writing and maths are easy to learn. The more children read the easier correct spelling can be achieved. If children haven't mastered these 3 objective learning behaviours within the first two years of schooling, the two years of past mental stress builds into aged 7 years children, children easily being diagnosed with ADHD and/or other psychological problems. Mental stress represses normal (as in the correct behaviour human brains learn) emotional self-programming human memory learning... correct human learning behaviours are to repress memories which contain fear and/or bad wrong feelings. Education's many hours each day mental stress adds repressing bad feelings to learning information. Bad feeling memories are making remembering daily heard and read information difficult to remember. Children and teenagers could better remember what is desired to do after school, more simple behaviours than that of what happens at school.