ok at school i have noticed we really only learn bad news
whenever we have to learn something that can affect us in the future its always bad news i think think the general thought is that college kids have a fantasy life and that they need a dose of reality so somewhere along the line its decided that all of society's problems (like the environment, or food supply, or diseases, or the economy.. doesn't matter which one).. all of society's problems that get ignored by people who really have the power to make a change- get dumped on college students "they will learn about this stuff and then go out and water the flowers!" ngga i'm tryin to pass.. fck yo' flowers all these teachers have beliefs, causes, and issues they want to bring to the light.. they all have things they want to see happen in the world, so they beat us students over the head with it i get a sense that some of this bad news is pushed on us by teachers and some is pushed on us by higher authorities who dictate what should be learned in college (its probably around a 50/50 split, teachers/authorities) today one of my teachers actually unconsciously put words to this phenomenon, because he assigned us some work for another depressing "bad news" topic.. and as i was listening to him he said something like "you all need to be sensitized to this issue" hmm.. u want to make us have have a sense of urgency about this topic.. you have strong feelings about this issue and you want us to have strong feelings about it too.. on some level perhaps it is noble because the issues that are discussed may very well be important.. however still on some level isn't this a bit of an abuse of power? u have an audience that may not have signed up for your speech on modern politics, but this audience has no choice but to listen either way, i think the whole thing ends up backfiring.. teachers are obviously paid to teach students bad news.. and each individual teacher has their own personal bad news they want to share.. so it becomes overload there's only so much negativity a person can take until they stop being "sensitized" to any of it really at all like i saw a thing on tv where jennifer hudson (whose mom, brother, and nephew were all killed last year) said nothing really phases her anymore after that its kinda the same concept a person can only be "sensitized" to so much bad news until they no longer care at all what u tell them and they survive regardless... basically my point is with all this "sensitizing" us college students, it backfires and by the time you finish college, bad news no longer really affects you because you've been beaten over the head with it for four years.. this, i imagine would most likely create generations of people who are passive and indifferent about issues in general modern people sometimes wonder why the people in the 60s stood up to the government's wrongdoings in vietnam, but today no one really does anything about anything.. this concept is a large reason why people don't take a stand today like we as a country have been at war for what.. like 7 years straight? it no longer carries any real meaning to anyone anymore.. 7 years is overload.. people can only care for so long until they lose interest -thoughts-
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JaimsThese are my blogs from 2009. I started them in May of that year when I couldn't work on music but still needed a way to express myself. Archives
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