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This is cruel:
The British government will send a copy of Al Gore’s film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, to every secondary school in the country, the U.K. environment minister announced Friday.
Every British secondary school should send a student to Al Gore. Only fair.
It’s like Churchill piping in Lord Haw-Haw to every classroom during WWII…what a disgrace.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 02 03 at 10:58 AM • permalinkGood grief. It’s “The Population Bomb” and “the icebergs are coming, the icebergs are coming!” all over again.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 03 at 11:24 AM • permalinkAt the risk of Godwinizing the thread, I point out that a certain A. Hitler of Berlin made sure every secondary and primary school in his country had a copy of the Fritz Lang silent “Ring of the Nibelungen” (1924*), which perhaps not coincidentally costars a giant paper mache puppet as Fafnir. Then as now you gotta spread the mythology like Vegemite on thick to make young things grow like you want them to.
* Yes, I know what year he came to power. He pulled the film from archives at Babelsburg.Cripes! We have gazillions of so-called educated adults swallowing this crap whole; the kids don’t have a chance.
In my lifetime, there’s been “population explosion” theory - unless we limited our families just replacement value (two), it would be Gaia’s undoing. But that sorta faded into the wallpaper at some point.
Next, there was “global cooling” - the polar icecaps were, eventually, gunna shake hands at the equator. But that didn’t happen either.
Now, we’re all gunna fry. Or drown. Due to gerbil worming.
If doomnation fatigue persists, see your doctor. Or not.
#9 And the Club of Rome running out of resources by the year 2000.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 03 at 12:41 PM • permalinkSomeday, “An Inconvenient Truth” is going to be a gigglefest, like “Reefer Madness” and all those high school health films from the 50s.
I’m with #11. Most of these kids will dutifully file this information away with all the other boring useless crap they were forced to learn in school, only this one will turn out never to be useful, as some of the other stuff sometimes does.
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Well, we had to sit through Future Shock, and I’m pretty sure that, like me, my fellow students only remember the “polygamous marriage” segment of that boring-ass film.
What? You forgot the “plug in shock device into your arm” method of waking in the morning?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 02 03 at 06:18 PM • permalinkWell, Hamlet is entertaining art. (Except the Mel Gibson version, which I’m sorry to say sucked donkey balls. The Kenneth Branagh Hamlet is just the thing for kids—it might not be the most reverent rendition, but it’s got lots of action and special effects and hoopla, as well as good acting—and best of all, you can understand what people are saying. Excuse me, I’m still reeling from Gibson’s mush-mouthed rattling off of Shakespeare’s lines.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 03 at 07:17 PM • permalinkGee and i wonder what might be underlying the falling birth rate in the West??
Anything ot do with being fed doom prophecies and guilt trips for the first 18 years of their lives? I know it shit scared me when i was a kid and led to a fair bit of “why bother were all doomed anyway, the year 2000 is still 15 years away, I wont live that long”.
Doomsday christians and the like are rightly seen as crackpots, brainwashers, and at times dangerous people. However mr manbearpig is different how??Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 03 at 08:03 PM • permalink#11, I agree, kids these days have fairly well-honed BS detectors.
Another reason to hope is that kids tend to rebel against their parents and teachers (especially when their seniors are on some kind of quasi-religious crusade).
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 03 at 09:11 PM • permalinkGood grief. It’s “The Population Bomb” and “the icebergs are coming, the icebergs are coming!” all over again.
Well, not exactly. Those two scare-narios didn’t enjoy the near-universal acceptance this one seems to. For instance, the government didn’t impose draconian measures, like a one-child policy, on the populace. Gives me the chills (ha ha) to even think about what this current crop of Democratics (well, they insist) have up their sleeves. Didya hear Hillary the other day? She’s going to confiscate oil company profits (at first she said “excess” profits, but later changed that to just “profits”) and use them to fund a Manhattan Project to develop alternative energy sources. She didn’t say how she would continue to fund her project once there were no more oil profits. Details, details. (And if you’re going Hamlet, be a purist. Lord Olivier all the way.)
Someday, “An Inconvenient Truth” is going to be a gigglefest, like “Reefer Madness” and all those high school health films from the 50s.
Wow, I hadn’t thought of it, but I’m sure you’re right. Maybe I should get a copy now. I can remember an HS health film that had quite a few Reefer Madness moments. I also remember the first time I saw Reefer Madness. The old downtown Huntington Beach (CA) theater. I was well primed and laughed myself sick. I treasure my video.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 03 at 09:33 PM • permalinkKids these days do not have particularly good BS detectors - what they do have is a fashionable and facile cynical pose. If they are leaving school without having absorbed the ideology of their teachers that’s simply a consequence of coming out of school having hardly been made to learn anything at all. What they believe and what they disbelieve seems to depend on criteria unrelated to any standards of rationality.
At the beginning of his book The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo described a group called the Comprachicos, who consciously set out to make deformed children to sell to bored aristocrats and the like. Ayn Rand called the progressive schools Comprachicos of the mind. We’ve now had several generations go through these “education” systems. The results are all around us. For instance, there is a reason why all the murder sprees perpetrated by children happened in schools, not at the local mall or other popular hang-outs. Another consequence is the inability of many people to reason their way to understanding what is happening in the world. Why do we expect them to? Most are as ignorant as an Amazon Indian, without his understanding that death is the immediate result of such thoughtlessness.
Those who manage to reason successfully after that kind of social engineering have expended an heroic effort to do so. And most of them end up here!
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Most of the students will wisely use the time to take a nap.