Being ignorance is hard to admit to. There is a lot of words and current events I don’t understand. I watch The View and other news programs occasionally to educate my self on current events. I like The View because it is from a woman’s point of view. During the past week I have been avoiding the television because of the elections. My mind was made up for a while.
But I have been hearing the word Marxism thrown around. Whoopi Goldburg asked Elisabeth if she knew the meaning of it. (She said it the definition was wrote down in front of them but never said what it was.) I have to admit I had memory, but little knowledge of the meaning of it and was curious of it because of the high usage being thrown around.. I conducted a little survey among my friends to see if someone could tell me what it was. Most of them knew of it but no one understood it. I then went to Google and searched for the meaning.
I explained it to my 15 year old daughter as such. You have an older sister. You both live in the same house. You both have jobs and contribute your paychecks to the house. You make more money and work longer hours then your sister but she has farther to drive to work. Her need is greater for gas money. In a Marxist society she would receive more money for gas because her need is greater then yours even if you made the most by working the hardest. My fifteen year old replied “that’s not fair.”
I agree.
If while watching any program, news or otherwise, and there is something you don't understand, look it up. It is very hard to admit to being ignorant but being uninformed is worse.