This would seem to be evidence that not enough critical thinking is being taught in schools.
Foregone conclusion, roffle >_> Though perhaps it isn't so wise to place the burden of learning on the school system itself. We can say that "critical thinking is not being taught enough in society," or perhaps "critical thinking does not have enough value in our society."
Of course, masses who can think critically are against the interests of folks in power who might fear their ability to depose them, so there you have it. Trouble. What was that saying... a mindless worker is a happy worker?
Not that that diminishes the accomplishments of convincing people to do things that, if they had any real-world consequences, would be horribly against their interests. Maybe it's just the women that I hang out with, but I think that getting other women going on misogynistic rants is even more impressive than getting people to agree with slavery. Slavery, after all, isn't remembered by many eighth graders.
I don't think that many eighth graders understand misogyny either, on the other hand. I certainly didn't. The secret was in making it transgressive, and fun--for once, they would receive acclaim for saying the terrible things about themselves that they always heard from others. We all jumped on the opportunity to be cruel and turn against an unseen "other" group that, for once, wasn't us. It was other people who were only interested in their looks, were too weak to do anything with themselves, who were vain, who were weak-willed. We were all permitted to be men, whatever we thought that meant. I was playing a guy who went insane and died not too long after the congress, so that was my excuse. Says something sort of sad about our society in its larval stages.
On the other hand, the girls in that class had a "game" among themselves that would have constituted sexual harassment in basically any other context, so it really wasn't that surprising.
Well, time to go to bed, nice to catch Vector and help her a bit. Need to see if i can make the college do a archery contest tomorrow and still need to ask that girl out.
Good luck with both of those! We're all eagerly anticipating your success.
... Dunno why, but I seem to just feel kind of randomly cheerful right now.
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