shadow dancer wrote:
I just got informed today that some schools today are teaching hour-a-week "bully" classes, i.e. teaching kids not to be bullies and how to deal with bullies. Isn't this something that should be taught at home? Maybe I was just a spoiled child to have the parents I have. I'll get off my soapbox for now.
To me it depends on how you're taught to defend against the bully. Schools, as we all know, will not advocate violence, although that's the bully's main method. From the schoolyard to the stock exchange to the front lines, bullies use might to make right. So if the school teaches you to combat this reality without using real combat, what have they really taught you? They've taught you
how to be bullied, thazright.
Dean will be the next president because the media have chosen him, just like they chose Clinton and W. Americans vote out of fear rather than intelligence; and the media mediates our political participation in this society. Therefore whatever the media says to do, vote-wise, is what Americans will do.
For all the election year talk about 'issues,' candidates campaign on the topics chosen by the media to run stories on, stories they claim to be running because the topics were demanded by the public. It seems to me that there are issues like food, shelter and clothing that supercede issues like war, commerce and the stock market; and isn't it strange to think that millions of Americans who can barely pay their rent just can't do without
stock updates every day? It's really the business culture that dictates the 'issues' of our campaigns, while the rest of America feels like their political participation is a game of 'catch-up' with the 'real world'.
