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Tuesday, January 29, 2002 @ 1:47 PM
U-High is going to be starting Character Education. I am frightened. They want volunteers for the Character Education Committee. I am honestly tempted to volunteer for the committee purely in the hopes of bringing it down from the inside.
I know that nothing will come of this. The activities will end up consisting of a "Character is Cool Car Wash" or something equally lame and poorly attended, where the Future Shining Examples of U-High will suck up to the administration and win cool prizes. I'm sure of it... and yet...
And yet, I am entertaining a wide variety of paranoid fantasies in which the school starts handing out demerits for swearing and promiscuous sex, in which simple aphorisms replace rhetoric, and little blue pills replace the dissent I've worked so hard to cultivate. They are sneaking in morality through the back door! Their so-called attempts to cultivate school spirit, respect, and "character" are thinly-disguised ploys at controlling our actions and thoughts! And half of these kids are so dumb that it will work! "A gramme is better than a damn!" will be on the morning announcements! The ridiculous "The greatest students in the world..." banner will be replaced by one proclaiming, "War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is Truth!" And children will march through the hallways chanting, "Lousy NCHS Communist Slackers! Kill them, knock them dead! Proudly hail our Alma Mater! Go, fight, win!"
I weep for the future...
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