Couldn't finish the second half. Just grateful that my adolescence was a long time ago. And that my mother raised me to fight City Hall and anything else that I found stifling. She wouldn't have approved of some of the things I did in my rebellious year, but I was careful and discreet. These people ought to be locked up for crimes against humanity. Not that there aren't out-of-control adolescents that need this sort of thing as an attempt to keep them from harming others, but the smell of this is so scary and offensive... where is the wei wu wei? And if this is love, I'd sooner cease to be. So glad I'm older and have learned to keep my head down mostly, pick my fights mostly carefully, and don't have someone stupid standing over me. Suddenly, I feel I've been lucky. Very lucky. I grieve both for those younglings who were sent there needlessly, and those who require some nasty counteraction to their destructiveness. Then I'll go back to my vacuuming. Work can obliterate a sense of obscene helplessness/hopelessness. Thanks for the heads up about something dirty I always suspected was going on. Next?!
Tranquillity
These people ought to be locked up for crimes against humanity. Not that there aren't out-of-control adolescents that need this sort of thing as an attempt to keep them from harming others, but the smell of this is so scary and offensive... where is the wei wu wei? And if this is love, I'd sooner cease to be.
So glad I'm older and have learned to keep my head down mostly, pick my fights mostly carefully, and don't have someone stupid standing over me. Suddenly, I feel I've been lucky. Very lucky.
I grieve both for those younglings who were sent there needlessly, and those who require some nasty counteraction to their destructiveness. Then I'll go back to my vacuuming. Work can obliterate a sense of obscene helplessness/hopelessness. Thanks for the heads up about something dirty I always suspected was going on. Next?!