"Get RE:ALL, there's no such thing...THIMK again!"

Reality, (bounced) checks: What we were taught about in our earliest days of formal, public education, things we needed to know about the world around us, which we were to initially memorize and then as we also learned how to test, question, via the "scientific method", a systematic, disciplined approach to observing, then hypothesizing, then gathering facts to test hypotheses, and ultimately write in a structured, agreed upon format re-garding your findings in such a way that others could re-plicate your procedures (which are laid out clearly,  'transparently', in sharp contrast to "pass this bill and then..."), to see if they get similar re-sults, as well as question your findings based on your data, your conclusions...all of this back-and-forth type of scientific rigor, prior to a formal, serious consideration of your re-commendations from your re-search...which could find itself, if it rises to the occasion, into what's called in the highest annals of "learned professional journals" which are also re-ferred to as "re-fereed journals" and the ones that others in other fields of study, or those that are out to prove something, "have something to prove" re-ly on as their "primary sources" (which we were compelled to cite as we started writing papers where other sources beyond that omnipresent "Google" were re-quired by teacher)...even a "bibliography"😔😕😟  All this as a preface, a forward, prologue, whatever your frame of reference, for a serious reconsideration, questioning of assumptions, basic premises, of what has been once again brought to U.S. as being "FREE!" 

Dynamics: What we learned about, first via how to get along with others, terms of "interpersonal" engagement, then, as we progressed in our learning beyond what Piaget (an important figure to anyone in Psych. 101 and beyond regarding how children learn) titled the "Concrete Operational Stage" (where children learn logical, concrete physical rules about objects, how they stay the same even if changing in appearance) on the way to, hopefully, if adults teaching us followed Piaget's strategies for fostering it..."Formal Operations"😌😏😔...where students "learn logical rules to better understand, solve problems, even abstract concepts". The basics of how we observed, learned, learned how to learn..."critical thinking" (and, once again, what our fourth grade teacher titled "THIMKING", one of my 'primary sources' I have cited here a few different times now, even on my graduate course syllabus in "Educational Psychology for Teachers"). And, moving on, developmentally, scholastically, in middle school under the banner of "Physical Science" and later, in high school or (for me, not until college) "Physics", which included formal, more in depth teaching about "Thermodynamics" -- the first law of which states that there is a total amount of energy in the universe and that the actual amount does not ever really change, but can be transferred to another form...or from one object to another...Then, as I took more Psych. classes, given my emerging professional aspirations, I also learned about other stage theorists, event those that posited we progress through stages of "Moral Development" (see 9/7 here) and, again, with recommendations to adults trying to foster advancement...So, with all this mass of knowledge, ways to test our knowledge, and ways to have a civil conversation, even debate (basic "Debate" process involves forcing many to argue a position they would not normally adhere to)...

"You'd THIMK we would have learned" That "Nothings Free" as in "Freedom Isn't Free" (frequently credited to Colonel Walter Hitchcock, U.S. Air Force, ret. which also appears on the wall of the Korean War Memorial and incorporated into our more recent history here, the "9/11 Museum" which, among other somber reflections, reminds us that "freedom is not free"). These meaningful memes have served U.S., compelled us into serious thought and action, honorable sacrifice that others have made for getting US here. You'd think we would have already learned, then, that "There's no such thing as a free lunch"...or "Tuition Free Education" (the latter most recently brought to US here as "Cancelled!") As the counter-argument goes, "If you think things were expensive then, just wait until they're free..."). Conditions, economic, political, and social dynamics which collectively, bring US to yet another challenging reality, or how we challenge what's being brought to us, hoping we'll "buy in", prompting me, us to go "Back to basics"...challenging the basic assumptions, detecting flaws, testing...

REALITY, Laws of Transference: In my professional development, college level learning...grad. school😔 we were taught and then shown via modeling, eventual direct experience when they deemed us reasonably prepped, that we ourselves could become objects of "transference" -- "the redirection to a substitute, a transfer or projection of emotions that were originally felt during childhood...our formative years, instrumental experiences..." Such as when, early in my career, in a deft attempt to get a young (but about ten years older than myself, the novice) to be cautious in his spending habits, he complained, in a moment of vivid transference, "You remind me of my father!" Which prompted me to look in the mirror upon arriving home, as well as reflect on this whole idea of transference, especially when people are reminded of reality, including "To be honest, there's no such thing as free; someone has to pay for this" A tough message, one no one liked to hear initially, but if not heeded could end up, when as an adolescent or young adult, when attempting to transfer funds into a readily available account, "disposable income", they are sadly informed, "Insufficient funds"😖😞😢 AKA: "You're tapped out...you overspent...you should have planned better..." A common reply, after the cry, "Reality sucks!" No one likes to be told such harsh realities and there are those, of course, who would rather hear a version that has been filtered through "rose colored glasses" which may initially have people tipping theirs in harmony with those who have authored legislation which, on the surface, before thorough analysis of its longer-term implications, some "unintended side effects"...

"Sounds Grand(iose)!" As in "Yeh, let's go, sounds great, sounds like a grand time, I'll buy in" A counter to what our elders offered us early and often, a version of the Latin meme "Caveat Emptor" by attempting to guide, then chide us, "If it sounds too good to be true..." Which were attempts to teach us, as we proceeded through the concrete to more formal stages of thinking, testing...proceeded through stages of morality as well...which brought us to be able state, "To be intellectually and morally honest..." A common preface to a statement of humility, the limits of what we know for sure, unequivocally, which sounds a bit different from perhaps what we prefer to hear: "without a doubt", "Will reduce inflation" while at the same time provide free tuition, free lunches...Sure sounds grand...EXCEPT to our great, great, great...grands, who upon receiving their portion -- of the tax bill for all this, when "coming of age" find themselves questioning...our basic assumptions...our in-tuition, basic math, laws of transference and the definition of "FREE" (which actually, in a moment of intellectual and moral integrity) means "Transfer the debt"...Waking up to a "New Reality" one which may be more associated with a second law of thermodynamics, a state of "Entropy": a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a (money) system's...often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system..." Sounding familiar? A new day, dawning, the realities of which will reflect back on us, as in a dynamic...

Return of Transference: As in "Who's to blame for all this mess, chaos, entropy...how can we send back, return this bill for a re-write, the one they didn't bother to read", as in "The devil's in the details...you'll have the devil to pay...why didn't they listen to their elders...while they were back slapping we got a punch in the gut!😞😖😡...what did we do to deserve this...?" And in final analysis, upon re-flection, "back at you" moment, the future gens, "children representing our future", beg, "What were you THIMKING?!" 

Coming soon, (too soon for some): Re:Port-all cards