Welcome to 1984

[willcowskitz]

For all you enthusiastic patriots out there, here's some role models for you:

https://xnerg.blogspot.com/2005/03/grandparents-enter-war-on-terra-from.html

[musik_man]

I wouldn't blame this on the war on terror as your source seems to.  Local authorities do stupid sh*t like this all the time.  For example, about a year after Columbine, a student was expelled from a Houston school for making a gun with his finger and pointing it at another student.  Or recently at a local school a kid was suspended, because his girlfriend had an asthma attack and having misplaced her inhaler, she used his.   It's amazing how stupid some people are.

When the US government is establishing re-education camps, you can make a 1984 analogy.

[willcowskitz]

Yeah, but what worries me is the way average people are absorbing the hysteria into themselves from the media. Actions like these show that some people already believe in the government as the highest priority institution, even over family ties. This is what disgusts me.

[Nightscape]

What bothered me was the fact that his own grandparents turned him in..... perhaps they are suffering from dementia?  Instead of calling the police, his grandparents could have talked to him..... to find out why he wrote the story.  Perhaps.... and this is a big leap out there, perhaps he wrote it to demonstrate his skill at writing a work of fiction!  In the manner of Stephen King, or something.  Actually, I recall Stephen King writing a book, Rage, about a high schooler killing his teacher and holding his classroom hostage.  Fortunately for Stephen, his grandparents are probably dead already.

[willcowskitz]

In "1984", kids are turning in their own parents.

The "re" before the "education" really becomes unnecessary when we've already got schools.

People are always looking 'up' to someone to blame - i.e. somebody blaming the TV for showing violence that alters their kids. How about keeping yourself on track and aware of what's going on in your kids' life, and on TV? Some people want to delegate all this responsibility to higher authorities, such as the government. "We needs laws for this and that", because its easier to be controlled, not having to think through moral-ethical matters by ourselves, but instead follow direct and definite regulations.

So, in the future you probably don't have to worry about the mental side of raising your kids - the education centres will do that. Parents' only purpose is to breed and provide accommodation.

[BoliverAllmon]

In "1984", kids are turning in their own parents.

The "re" before the "education" really becomes unnecessary when we've already got schools.

People are always looking 'up' to someone to blame - i.e. somebody blaming the TV for showing violence that alters their kids. How about keeping yourself on track and aware of what's going on in your kids' life, and on TV? Some people want to delegate all this responsibility to higher authorities, such as the government. "We needs laws for this and that", because its easier to be controlled, not having to think through moral-ethical matters by ourselves, but instead follow direct and definite regulations.

So, in the future you probably don't have to worry about the mental side of raising your kids - the education centres will do that. Parents' only purpose is to breed and provide accommodation.

i think the schools are doing a crappy job of raising our kids and the parents should never just be there to breed and provide acommodations.

boliver