"Civil Disobediance"
A few days ago I wrote an article concerning my slight distaste for stupid people. Specifically, I targeted the Internet and its ability to unite people from all over the globe, provided that they are among the richest thousandth of the globe's population. But goddammit, six million is a big number of idiots you'll find out there.
In this sense, you're likely to meet a lot more people online than you'd ever meet in real life if you live in an isolated suburb and never go out and are basically confined to your school and its immediate surrounding community. By "you", I mean "I". Because that's pretty much me. There was a time when sheltered SD thought that you couldn't get stupider than some people at school.
Actually, that's probably true. But the sheer quantity of stupid people on the Internet is disturbing. They may not be quite as stupid or egotistical as some of the people I know in real life though.
Which brings me to today's topic.
I have no problem with having a big ego. In fact... in fact, I gotta say that I support having a big ego. Having a massive mental image of yourself is one of the best things possible. Having inflated self-esteem only serves to raise your esteem in the eyes of others, especialliy when you put this esteem into practice by being a total jackass and concealing all of your faults.
Actually, the above only applies to me, so I feel that I must condone it in order not to seem like a hypocrite.
It's scared people's actions which can irritate me.
School monitors are the textbook tale of these. I don't know and I don't want to know why these people ended up as school monitors. It could very well be for legitimate reasons, such as failing out of college, as I feel that I am probably prone to do in the coming years. But... exaggerated sense of self-importance? Are they really that important?
Several times, hall monitors have stopped me in the halls for... for basically no reason whatsoever. They really need a looser interpretation of "rules" - or a less selective one. Something strikes me as distinctly odd when I am stopped from coming into the hallway by a singularly unpleasant woman while several other white kids casually walk past said woman, laughing loudly at my plight. My crime? Doing what several others are currently doing. How many are punished? Me.
The other day, something similar happened. I was walking down from the library to the cafeteria, and a monitor asked where I was going. I told him "cafeteria". The rest I can't say, but my colleagues tell me that as I passed said monitor on the way to the hallway, he began to yell that apparently I was not allowed to go this way to the cafeteria. I guess that I must have selectively ignored this, because the lobby was right next to me, and there were around six students hanging around the lobby, probably doing drugs and definitely doing something illegal. I was almost to the cafeteria before I heard yelling from behind me. A shouting scene ensued in which he told me "If this happens again, you're done!"
A profound threat, to say the least.
Why did I write this pointless, short rant? I really don't know. I wish I had something of significance I could add here, but it would be total filler. DAMN THE PATRIOTS!...
SD
Nov. 8, '05
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