Ray9
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In 1962 when I was 15, I couldn’t figure out why the school kept making me read dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World and Animal farm. I remember an incident where some of my classmates broke into the high school at the end of the year and left farm animals in Mrs. Collins English classroom. They put maple syrup on the heads of some chickens so they would peck themselves to death and wrote Mrs. Collin’s Animal Farm on the blackboard. You’ll have to take my word that I was not involved.
The third time they kicked me out of school for growing my hair too long, a guidance councilor told me I had the third highest IQ in the sophomore class, and I was lazy. He was right and I take some responsibility for the way the world has turned out. I ended up in a rock band and escaped Vietnam due to a congenital eye defect. They classified me 1-Y not 4F. In the case of a national emergency or a nuclear attack they would call me-I didn’t sit by the phone waiting.
Today I know why they made me read those novels. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and shoveling dirt against the cellar windows with my father because we had no fallout shelter-that nuclear attack was only about 90 miles away.
Today right here in this county Bernie sanders is wildly popular with the young. Sanders is essentially a Jewish Fidel Castro. All the crazy scenarios in those dystopian novels seem to be coming to pass. Elementary school children are jazz handing at politically correct rallies and college students are screaming that you and I should pay their gambling debts-tuition expenses. Latin is no longer taught at most colleges and universities so “Caveat Emptor” is Greek to most kids. The US is coming full circle.
Education is indoctrination and now I know why most will not get the pensions I enjoy or the employee medical insurance I had. US industry is flocking to faraway places where people die in the gutter when they get sick-it’s perverse global capitalism evening the playing field with you and I eventually living a one world/third world existence. They’re just waiting for us to either die or end up swallowing our faces in nursing homes.
I don't blame the world for the way I turned out but I do partially blame myself for the way the world turned out. I should have paid attention to what was happening.
The third time they kicked me out of school for growing my hair too long, a guidance councilor told me I had the third highest IQ in the sophomore class, and I was lazy. He was right and I take some responsibility for the way the world has turned out. I ended up in a rock band and escaped Vietnam due to a congenital eye defect. They classified me 1-Y not 4F. In the case of a national emergency or a nuclear attack they would call me-I didn’t sit by the phone waiting.
Today I know why they made me read those novels. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and shoveling dirt against the cellar windows with my father because we had no fallout shelter-that nuclear attack was only about 90 miles away.
Today right here in this county Bernie sanders is wildly popular with the young. Sanders is essentially a Jewish Fidel Castro. All the crazy scenarios in those dystopian novels seem to be coming to pass. Elementary school children are jazz handing at politically correct rallies and college students are screaming that you and I should pay their gambling debts-tuition expenses. Latin is no longer taught at most colleges and universities so “Caveat Emptor” is Greek to most kids. The US is coming full circle.
Education is indoctrination and now I know why most will not get the pensions I enjoy or the employee medical insurance I had. US industry is flocking to faraway places where people die in the gutter when they get sick-it’s perverse global capitalism evening the playing field with you and I eventually living a one world/third world existence. They’re just waiting for us to either die or end up swallowing our faces in nursing homes.
I don't blame the world for the way I turned out but I do partially blame myself for the way the world turned out. I should have paid attention to what was happening.
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