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Quote by: bishop  i was flipping through the channels a week or two ago and stumbled on bowling for columbine.. i thought most of it was garbage, but the interview with marilyn manson was exceptional imo - as were his thoughts. (despite the guy's *different* exterior, he's a very intelligent person.)
he made this statement in relation to the media's spin on the columbine tragedy. but, the context of the statement really seems to characterize much of what i view as wrong with people in our country.
when i see the debates here covering everything from religion, who you're voting for, supporting wars of aggression, etc., they all seem to have relevance to m.m.'s statement. |
This did not always define our culture. We valued being humble and God fearing, as opposed to being
paranoid, as in an excessive need to be superior and in control. Like it or not, the change in the US culture, began with the change in public education. Now the US is as paranoid as Germany was, when Hitler was leading the New World Order.
What goes with this is excessively impersonal education, which teachers have been taught to provide. The reasoning is all students should be treated as equals to avoid any favoritism. This education is programming the young to serve the Military/Industrial Complex, it is not about preparing them for life as past liberal education did. The teachers and staff will be technologically correct, but be lacking in communication skills and the ability to relate as one human being to another.
Before Columbine got our attention, it was Kip Kinkle at Thruston High, a few blocks from my home. Kip's parents were teachers and he had all the advantages money could buy, but he had a learning disability that was ignored, and became such an emotional problem Kip killed his parents and then went to school the next day and killed everyone he could. The whole thing could have been prevented if the principle could have related to him as a young man needing help.
My daughter attended the school, and the problem was not just Kip Kinkle. The principle and teachers had terrible social skills when interacting with anyone who wasn't in their inner group. The school was excessively impersonally and ignored information provided by parents. The Mayor will not send his children to the school, because he knows it would be harmful to his children, and while he continues to support the building of over priced homes on hills prone to land slides, he has no interest in improving the school. That is Springfield. We live in Eugene now. Springfield is clickish and authoritarian. Eugene is liberal. Springfeild police seem to kill someone about once a month. That doesn't happen in Eugene. So yes, when kids kill there is apt to be a culture problem.