Thought-Provoking Awesome: The Founder of Liberalism

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

- Adam Smith

I’m going to start off by saying: I hate social studies. I love my teacher, who is the most adorable person in the World, but really, I just hate learning, and learning, and learning about how, according to the Alberta government, liberalism is the best thing in the World and that if you have any other political belief, you are a moron. Mind you, my teacher chooses not to teach it this way, because she isn’t trying to manipulate today’s youth with her personal political beliefs. I get it, liberalism is the political ideology that Canada follows, and perhaps, in the minds of the educators in Alberta who write the textbook, it’s the political ideology that Canada should follow; but for me, I want to  be taught completely true and completely non-biased information.

Today, in class, we were given three sources in which to analyze: a propaganda poster of “happy” little Soviet children hanging out with Stalin, the above quote from Adam Smith, and an image of a Soviet village with those storybook houses that all look the same. Apparently, these all have some sort of relationship with each other. I don’t get it, and do you know why I don’t get it? Because this entire course teaches that the only relationship between liberalism and Stalin’s communism is that believing in one sends you to heaven, and believing in the other sends you to hell. Let’s face it, Alberta wants us all to believe that liberalism is good, and anything else, especially extreme socialism is horrible and will doom the entire World forever.

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