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Might fail social studies.
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Might fail social studies.

We've been working on this project all year where we have to create a fictional country and come up with a government for it. I decided to make my country an anarchy. This was probably a stupid decision because a lot of the worksheets we've had to do didn't apply to an anarchist country.

I'm down to a 15 for the quarter, my average for the year is 58.75. This is also the same class where I couldn't do the presentation.

A 58.75 can be fixed easily, but not if I keep failing assignments.

I'm pretty stressed out about this. We were supposed to do an assignment where we created leaders for our country... I just wrote a paper explaining why my country doesn't have any leaders but I don't know if I'll get any credit.

I guess I should have just changed my country's government, but since we've worked on it all year I didn't want to change it.

I don't know what the hell to do, I'm skipping the class right now to write the paper but it's terrible, I'm screwed.
04-28-2014 11:26 PM
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Might fail social studies.

Use creativity; complete the assignments in such a way that it is clear that your country is an anarchy. If you fail, it would then be the teacher's fault, not yours.

Public Service Announcement: First world problems are still problems.
04-29-2014 06:31 AM
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RE: Might fail social studies.

If there are any annoying fundie kids in your class saying "HURR IN MY CUNTRY THERE BE NO GAYS AN WE MAEK ERRY1 GO 2 CHURCH DURR" you can explain why your country is superior in terms of why so many people run away from those countries to yours.

Hello, traveler.

This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.

Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"

Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.

People are allowed to change their views.

Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.

If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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