i agree with Thunder. I started writing back before I wrote my response and he said everything i'd like to say (way back on page one).
Wow what a lot of posts. Observations:
a) not wanting to write a paper doesnt qualify you to claim the goverment as being fascist.
b) who the hell says 10 hours of sleep is what you need?
c) if you think a teachers job is easy, i'd suggest trying it when you get older. However I agree that a lot of stupid people who are not at all forward thinking somehow end up teaching high school. Perhaps it's because they never left.
d) just do yourself a favor and drop out.
e) believe it or not, knowing random pieces of info might actually come in handy. Again, the school system works on the grander scale. It doesnt assume you'll be a historian, but SOMEBODY is going to be some day. Hell, might be you. You mgiht find out you are interested in goverment or in law, and then knowing the details of the magna carta would be useful, if only as a springboard to something else. The whiner himself stated that the past is important as not to repeat it.
f) i would like to be a communist, I really would. Unfortunately that would also make me an idealist, which I can't accept. A communist nation would be a utopia and a utopia can't exist.
g) very few people can write a proper essay in this country. you'd be suprised how difficult it is for most people to write a single coherent, interesting thought onto a sheet of paper. If you would, i'd like to read your essay Rogue. Mail it to me at existless@aol.com
h) in my heart of hearts I am like most americans a patriot. I only wish america would/could live up to it's end of the bargain, but i forgive it.
i) there is a candian amongst our ranks and none of you have done anything about this? For shame...
j) the goverment doesnt sit there with a black marker and censor everything. FOR CHRIST SAKES, SCHOOLS ARE A HUNDRED TIMES MORE OPEN TO LEARNING AND NEW IDEAS THAN THEY WERE JUST 20 YEARS AGO!! And of course theyre are a lot of things you don't learn in school. Well, then go read a book then! There are ways of challenging a system and bending it's rules that will get you lauded and not thrown out. And college exists for a reason, namely to unlearn high school.
k) mason rules!!!
l) wow, comparing our school system to israel! Sweet! Maybe I can bring my gun to school, IF WE WERE IN A FREAKING HOLY WAR!!!!!!!! Comparing our contry to others doesnt usually work, as cultural boundaries and different points of views alter the ways that citizens respond to things.
m) you seem to refuse to post the paper, which adds no weight to your arguments.
n)
"So my teacher gets to define what is an important event in my life? "
well now you're just admitting you're a smart aleck. Would you really consider that paper to be an important event, except perhaps in retrospect? COULD you write a good paper about how in retrospect it was an important event? No.
o) you're doing a nice job of avoiding the arguments thrown at you. Instead you make statements that 2/3 of us already know about how a communist goverment SHOULD act and not HOW it has acted. Thats great. Thanks for the history lesson. But we knew it already.
p) people arent only exploited by capitalism, but by their own goverments. I'm not blaming them for starving, i'm just saying you can't say it's all Americas fault. Theres a lot more we can do, I admit, but at the same time it doesnt jusify the impossible feat of revamping the whole earths economy. And if you want to do that, again, drop out. Go and join Amnesty International, do something productive.
what this thread has taught me the most is that the seeds of discontent that have been sowed amongst our youth, that their elders have betrayed them and that there is no way out, have grown much since the 60's. It used to be the kids were angry and wanted change. Now were bitter and seething. You wonder why colombine happened? Why any school shooting happened? Because someone thought they got the short end enough, and that there was nothing they could do. The United States is a very paranoid place right now, on both ends. Teachers are scared as hell, and there have ben a flurry of suspensions lately over anything even remotely related to violence. I thoroughly think thats wrong, along with the idea that armed revolution is called for at this stage in our goverment. There isnt anything in this thread I havent thought myself before, or heard a friend state like it was some holy truth about the mission we must seek, the mission of rebellion. It's always there, and it never happens. Well, until now, and it wasnt supposed to be this way.
and could only get guns.
