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Schools Are Prisons (And That's A Good Thing)
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RE: Schools Are Prisons (And That's A Good Thing)
(09-03-2012 03:29 AM)gore goroth Wrote: WARNING!!!
WARNING!!!
EPIC RANT!!!
Why is everyone all the sudden in this "Under the Current System" mode??? Just because a huge majority of people have a watered down kind-of, sort-of, not really opinion on everything doesn't mean we have to. The reason why the whole anti-school movement hasn't gone anywhere until maybe the last few years is because all the anti-schoolers did was try to "change" the school system to suck less. People with this attitude about the cause against public schooling or really any political cause are going to get nowhere. It has been only very recently that anti-schoolers have come out of the closet and finally put their foot down on ENDING forced public school; sometimes even unschooling their own kids. Guess what happened???? It is actually now making a difference and shit is finally changing unschooling is starting to become popular little by little. Why??? Because radicalism is how things change and how shit gets done. Did we end slavery in the American South by trying to "change" slavery to make it less bad??? Did we try to "fix" slavery to make it better??? FUCK NO!!!!
Also, may I remind you all that forced public schooling was conceived as a means to brainwash kids into conformity and obedience, and not to educate or help children. This is not a super secret Illuminati TRUSTNO1 conspiracy, this is all fact and common knowledge. If we were all taught history in an unbiased way this would be a 3rd grade level history lesson. How could you possibly fix something that is this outright destructive and wrong?? This is like trying to "change" the mafia into a charity organization.
Seriously, people... I thought this was SS, not the republicans or democrats. Average opinions are for average people, and we are far from normal, average people. Half of the threads we make are about how we are so different from everyone else in one way or another or bitching about how the status quo is so bad and terrible. So why all the sudden are we bowing down to the status quo?? Why are we "working within the current system" when we know it is no use...
Wait a sec... I know why....
Its because "Derp I'm an adult now and having a real opinion is for darkandedgy fags".
/end of rant.
If we can't cure the cancer right away, the best we could do is at least smoke hella weed to make the pain go away and be happy and have an appetite again. This problem with school is more like civil rights then anti-slavery. Yes, it sucks, yes its fucked up, but its not bad enough to force its complete obliteration. I want to, but we just can't. Like civil rights, we have to protest and make changes one at a time until the whole system changes and no one even realizes how many changes we actually made by the end. I only said "under the current system" in reference to the current reality of our government. If we want to make changes there to (obv. yes) that is a somewhat different issue.
And btw I love that signature
The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I’d rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless
I don’t need the circus or the day of national observance
I need you to think for you and stop being a servant
-Immortal Technique, The Martyr, The Martyr
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2012 09:10 AM by IamNoone.)
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