I grieve for the dead in Colorado and for their family. It could have been me! (Either the shooters and the shot) And it could be my children dead, should I choose to send my children to an American high school, some day.
I am eternally grateful that I have not experienced High School in the US of A, having moved here to Denmark before then. I've wondered, though: would I have been a jock or a nerd, a geek or something else? Thats not to say there are no such groupings i this (dare I say more civilised?) country, they are simply not solidified by institutions, such as school football teams and cheerleaders groups. We don't have 'em. We have gym class, where I was forced guard the goal when we played soccer. Had to participate, though I would rather have read Heinlein. Makes me a nerd I guess?
It is not the disorganised effects of all things odd that make people like the shooters go crazy. It's the well-organised institutions, creating outsiders from free thinkers, rejects from rebels. What ever happened to "The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave"?
Are there enough free-thinkers at any high school to start a rally? Write up some signs, have a demonstration? Don't forget those old stooges sitting on school boards probably have been out demonstrating for free hash in their youth.
Demonstrate for free thought!
/RicRoc ----------------------------------------------- Eric Werk "The Earth Is But One Country" - Baha'u'llah
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I grieve for the dead in Colorado and for their family. It could have been me! (Either the shooters and the shot) And it could be my children dead, should I choose to send my children to an American high school, some day.
I am eternally grateful that I have not experienced High School in the US of A, having moved here to Denmark before then. I've wondered,
though: would I have been a jock or a nerd, a geek or something else? Thats not to say there are no such groupings i this (dare I say more civilised?) country, they are simply not solidified by institutions, such as school football teams and cheerleaders groups. We don't have 'em. We have gym class, where I was forced guard the goal when we played soccer. Had to participate, though I would rather have read Heinlein. Makes me a nerd I guess?
It is not the disorganised effects of all things odd that make people like the shooters go crazy. It's the well-organised institutions, creating outsiders from free thinkers, rejects from rebels. What ever happened to "The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave"?
Are there enough free-thinkers at any high school to start a rally? Write up some signs, have a demonstration? Don't forget those old stooges sitting on school boards probably have been out demonstrating for free hash in their youth.
Demonstrate for free thought!
/RicRoc
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Eric Werk
"The Earth Is But One Country" - Baha'u'llah