| I have an overwhelming desire to carve my name on a rock so that after the dust settles and alien archeologists come and study the remnants of humanity, that I will have made a mark. Right next to the pile of debris, trash, radioactive isotopes and discarded pharmaceuticals that we flush down the toilet. The problem is not a financial one. It is a character flaw that we share as a species. We have become self-indulgent and we cannot see right from wrong. Wrong is what we are doing. Right is what we wish we were doing. What will change? Sadly, people do not change until they are forced to. And with that logic, bailouts be damned - let it all collapse and rebuild something of greater worth and stronger value, and stop allowing the pathetic people of the world to drag us down to some milktoast level so that their feelings are not hurt. And all we hear is lip service. The asteroid is close.... MisterWriter |
Friday, March 20, 2009
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PRETTY LITTLE PLANET I LIVE ON? I AM DEPRESSED! SEND MONEY!
I await the asteroid now! They say it is coming. The asteroid will cleanse the past and offer hope to the few bipeds left to rebuild without the political and legal ramifications of a society gone insane. While we wait, we hope to raise money to save sports, library, music and sanity in general. Can you spare a latte or two?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
Our education system is a mess! We need to request a do over. Take it from the top.
And why an I hearing that Sherry Whitmarh wants to abolish the systems in place at Monte Gardens and both Sequoia schools? Is this true? I'm running out of hair to pull!
Mad Mom, Who is Sherry Whitmarh?
I have kids at Sequoia and it's my saving grace in this school system.
Thanks,
Sequoia Mom
Mad Mom,
Maybe you should inquire with the School Board or the Superintendent and find out if the rumor is true before you pull out your hair and more importantly, before you spread the rumor all over the Internet.
The rumor is false. I announced at a Board meeting a couple of weeks ago that the rumor was false.
At a time that we really need to pull together as a district and pass Measure D, rumors are not helpful.
Instead of us pounding our heads on the cement and then looking down at the bloody mess we have there, wondering what caused that headache let us look around a little. While there are problems and pain about, there has never been a time in our history when we have had so much capacity in terms of technology and knowledge with which to address our problems.
There has never been a time where so many could participate and have an impact on what is going on, and though it feels like people are just negating each other there is progress on all fronts of human knowledge and out reach.
The conflicts we have, and the money crisis while they are real, they are not bigger than our capacity to both recognize and to eventually deal with them regardless of how frustrated we are at the moment. Even in our attempts that fail, we have and will continue to learn from those failures and in the long run will come out ahead.
Seventy nine years ago when we had the great depression and by the way we also had a collapse of school funding and civilization seemed to be coming to an end, they did not have the ability to simply do what you are doing right now, reading or seething and bitching about things on a scale undreamed of at the time.
Times are tough, but times change and we will overcome these problems. Remember until the day you die, you will have come through all things and all problems.
So with all the cuts in educators, maybe it's time we cut students too. Let's start with the kids who don't want to be at school anyway. No more mandatory education. Back to the days when kids followed in parents' footsteps. Kid doesn't want to "do" school, he/she goes to work with parent and learns the job the old-fashioned way, by doing it for free. What do you think?
Shauna
Post a Comment