Comment Re:hypocritical media (Score 2) 319
Today I read the LA Times; an article about the "COLUMBINE MASSACRE" piqued my interest as its heading was something to the effect of "Geeks Empathize".
In it, I read of one student in the Southeast who was threatened with expulsion for expressing in a guidance class that he could understand why they did it.
Of course, many of us can "understand" why it happened. In my school system I was as much a menace as I was a victim of others' menacing. I knew both sides. Neither produce healthy attitudes about oneself. But the feelings of having hurt other people still linger. Seeing the pain and embarrassment in another's eyes to the satisfation of a few friends is still so revolting that I could again lose sleep over the depths of my evil, the obvious hypocracy of so easily turning my pain into anger and using it against another.
The fact is, there are outcasts within "The Trenchcoat Mafia" who leave school each day feeling rejected by the rejected.
So when the principals in our lives offer threats of expulsion for having a deeper, more rich and human understanding of pain, we must be strong, be wise, and be forgiving. If we hate the principal, the boss, the girlfriend, the guys in the car or row behind us, we perpetuate this desease.
I write this because I read the article and immediately thought about getting back at the ignorant Southeastern principal (I scanned the article for the name of the school so I could give him a piece of my mind); I thought about killing the ignorant South. I thought, "Crash into New York City, bomb the repugnant hypocracy of LA, rid the world of hypocrits and evil, and anger..."
...And then I thought better.
In it, I read of one student in the Southeast who was threatened with expulsion for expressing in a guidance class that he could understand why they did it.
Of course, many of us can "understand" why it happened. In my school system I was as much a menace as I was a victim of others' menacing. I knew both sides. Neither produce healthy attitudes about oneself. But the feelings of having hurt other people still linger. Seeing the pain and embarrassment in another's eyes to the satisfation of a few friends is still so revolting that I could again lose sleep over the depths of my evil, the obvious hypocracy of so easily turning my pain into anger and using it against another.
The fact is, there are outcasts within "The Trenchcoat Mafia" who leave school each day feeling rejected by the rejected.
So when the principals in our lives offer threats of expulsion for having a deeper, more rich and human understanding of pain, we must be strong, be wise, and be forgiving. If we hate the principal, the boss, the girlfriend, the guys in the car or row behind us, we perpetuate this desease.
I write this because I read the article and immediately thought about getting back at the ignorant Southeastern principal (I scanned the article for the name of the school so I could give him a piece of my mind); I thought about killing the ignorant South. I thought, "Crash into New York City, bomb the repugnant hypocracy of LA, rid the world of hypocrits and evil, and anger..."
...And then I thought better.
