Creeva’s World 2.0

Imag­ine an Amer­ica in which school offi­cials could strip search every stu­dent in their school based on the unsub­stan­ti­ated tip that one of them might have a joint. Con­gress is vot­ing on a bill Tues­day or Wednes­day that could make these police state tac­tics more common.

This is the exact stuff that our civil lib­er­ties are sup­posed to pro­tect us from. I learned a long time ago that chil­dren do not have pro­tected rights and there par­ents do not do much to help this. Par­ents allow dress codes and hair color or pierc­ing options that kids are allowed ot have in schools — usu­ally there is very lit­tle fight from par­ents while there is uproar from a stu­dent body.

Schools these days seem to sup­port the idea of con­for­mity — while we live in a coun­try that cel­e­brates diver­sity. Stu­dents with writ­ing on their T-shirts are con­sid­ered a dis­trac­tion — isn’t that what life is a series of dis­trac­tions? We are sup­posed to be teach­ing these kids how to sur­vive in the real world — but the micro-society they live in is not like the real world.

Stu­dents are brighter then you give them credit for and pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions sur­vived through much worse dis­trac­tions then are afforded these stu­dents. And we did grad­u­ate some bright peo­ple the past few decades — they did not all of the intel­li­gence of an ant.

As we get these kids to con­form more and more their brains turn to jello and they lack the abil­ity to diver­sify — it’s almost an Orwellian dream — and unfor­tu­nately it seems in the future that this is where we are headed.