ALL IN ALL, YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL ...

	

Those of you into REAL music (meaning not that 98 Backsync bullshit
that MTV pumps out nowadays) recognize the above line as belonging to
Pink Floyd's classic, "The Wall."  That also basically sums up the 
brain-dead, conformist masses that the schools are mass-producing and
vomiting out into society.  The school systems are fucked, let's face
it.  They have been for a long, long time.  Schools aren't about 
learning, anymore--they're about stripping children of their person-
alities and turning them into faceless numbers in the machine of the
Evil Empire America has become.  Creativity is virtually non-existant
in most classes; students are only required to memorize things and then
spit them out like good little machines.  Nobody cares about what the
student thinks in America; until you're 18, you're regarded as clay,
to be molded and shaped by the men in power into whatever they want
you to be.  

It's an accepted fact that schools discourage individualism.  They
encourage people to be "team players", to sacrifice their personal good
for that of the whole.  This is good, in some situations.  A basketball
team wouldn't win any games at all if each player was trying to get the
highest stats all for himself, no matter how talented they were.  But
the schools take it too far.  Some of the things that occur happen as a
result of the students--the formation of cliques and subsections within
the student body, that divide people into neatly catagorized groups.  
But schools have gone so far in reducing individualism, that a student's
ID number is more important than their name.  Pardon my ignorance, but
I was unaware that in America, the land of the free and the home of the
brave, that people were regarded as mere numbers on a screen simply
because of their age group.  

Of course, that's just the most obvious way that individualism is
discouraged in schools.  The more subtle, which isn't saying much, 
method that many have taken to (especially with the rash of school 
shootings) is uniforms and stricter dress codes.  Apparently unsatisfied
with wanting us to all think alike, now we must all look alike.  And 
don't give me that shit about protection of the students, because it's
just as easy to hide a gun inside a pair of khakis and a dress shirt as
it is Jnco's and a Marilyn Manson shirt.  Stricter dress codes don't do
anything to protect us either; as a matter of fact, it's just a lesser
version of uniforms.  And some of the rules are outright rediculous; 
what does tucking in one's shirt and not being allowed to expose the
midriff have to do with anything?  They accomplish nothing, save serving
to destroy individualism.  Also, many schools have banned trenchcoats
after Columbine.  I hate to tell you, you can hide a pistol in just
about any jacket known to man.  What's next, banning jackets altogether?
And you can hide a pistol in the waistband of your pants, too, if you
really want.  So then you'd have to ban pants, and it would get really 
damn cold in the winter, though it would making ogling the female members
of the the schools much more interesting.  

Sound rediculous?  It is.  But then, so is claiming that Superman made a 
7-year-old jump off a cliff.  So is claiming that hair dye insites acts 
of violence in teenagers.  So is 99% of the bullshit that so-called 
"experts" churn out every day.  Don't think it can't happen ... because
here in America, people are just stupid enough to let it.

At about this point in the rant is when I give some advice to the
millions and millions (or handfuls and handfuls) of the Anarkist's fans.
But the fact is, there is little I can say in the way of advice that I
can give that I haven't said already.  Hold onto your individuality; it's
what makes you, you.  Don't let society hammer you into one of its 
categories.  Don't let yourself become just another number to be filed 
and then disposed of.  If you happen to agree with what the masses think,
fine.  But don't do it because someone else thinks you should.   As the 
beer commercial says, be your own dog. 

Stay Hungry.

-The Anarkist