dragontigerpalm wrote:Additionally, the teacher and school official gave up the opportunity (if they were even capable) of being and behaving like teachers. They could just as easily have asked the student about the shell casing and then explained why in today's world such souveniers are deemed inappropriate in schools. Lesson given and lesson learned would have been a much better outcome.
That is a HUGE problem right there. People are being removed from interfering in... well, in life, removed from making decisions, thinking for themselves and instead are encouraged to defer to the "proper authorities." They are being instilled with indecisiveness and over-reliance on (and fear of) government, AND the worst of it all is that this is what the kids are being taught from day one.
I can almost feel the "Soviet Union" type of thing creeping up, closer and closer. The infrastructure is almost all in place, and some of it (like social security DB, etc.) is already far, far more advanced than the soviets could ever dream of. Implanted chips are coming eventually; the universal IDs that have all your records and financial data linked together, etc.
Take away the obviously-sci-fi elements (like Pre-Cogs) from the 'Minority Report', and that movie is suddenly not at all as far-fetched as some might think.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!
Nah, what am I thinking, -- Obama will save us! He will make things right, won't he, "Teh R34l Change" is just around the corner, people are starving for "the Good Tsar", so here he comes, rejoice one and all!!
All the jokes aside though... Some scary shit is brewing I think, I do see soviet-like stuff here and there and it ain't getting any better.
Oh well, c'est la vie, right?
We'll do what the mere mortals always do -- wait and see...