Truly great article by Michaeal Chabron

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/opinion/13CHAB.html

" We don't want teenagers to write violent poems, horrifying stories, explicit lyrics and rhymes; they're ugly, in precisely the way that we are ugly, and out of protectiveness and hypocrisy, even out of pity and love and tenderness, we try to force young people to be innocent of everything but the effects of that ugliness. And so we censor the art they consume and produce, and prosecute and suspend and expel them, and when, once in a great while, a teenager reaches for an easy gun and shoots somebody or himself, we tell ourselves that if we had only censored his journals and curtailed his music and video games, that awful burst of final ugliness could surely have been prevented. As if art caused the ugliness, when of course all it can ever do is reflect and, perhaps, attempt to explain it. "

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life is not all flowers and sunshine... there must be a balance

funny how people or institutions in this case, think they are doing right and then you look at the big picture and you see that it is not so right...

people so often forget the big picture

Making the world safe for mediocrity!
Casting blame on The Other for our own black hearts.

darling... the sheep need their mediocrity... otherwise they have nothing