quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
For Christmas I am going to un-block Rap.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aneirin

I am at college, and I am a student, albeit a mature one, I have had my college email box bombarded with calls to join the protests and have recently been asked personally, to which I refused. When asked why I was unwilling to fight, I replied, because it serves no purpose except for the media  to use it to do the government's will, there is not enough interest and support from other similarly affected sectors of society, which is alienating the students who will be seen to be the usual suspects of various political entities that will be ridiculed by the press. Besides, I hate the police and that is a good enough reason to keep clear of them, ( unless I can stand away with my sling and a goodly supply of rotten eggs), as thugs exist everywhere, inciters and all sorts.

Further to that, there is no fucking point, the government as always will do as it pleases, the bill has gone through end of story. The reply to that was myself being a mature student am effectively brainwashed into accepting the status quo. Which is very true, the older we get, and in some cases, the more successful in business we get, the less inclined we become towards taking action for the things that affect our lives.

But since coming out of the armed forces with an education, which was actually instrumental in myself quitting, I have vowed never to fight for a country again, only myself and mine, the people that matter to me if threatened. The help on the transition to civvy street was non existant and it caused me problems for a good few years, it is like being tipped out of a box where one had lived most of their lives, I guess similar to those who have spent long tiomes in prison.

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh come on Anerin.  All ya gots to do is protest- and get the right guy in office- and then a big box of money will be found and shared-  look-- I think I see it now...  next to the money tree~!


HA

quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh come on Anerin.  All ya gots to do is protest- and get the right guy in office- and then a big box of money will be found and shared-  look-- I think I see it now...  next to the money tree~!


HA

Are your eyes brown? You're so full of shit that they must be...

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh come on Anerin.  All ya gots to do is protest- and get the right guy in office- and then a big box of money will be found and shared-  look-- I think I see it now...  next to the money tree~!


HA

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh come on Anerin.  All ya gots to do is protest- and get the right guy in office- and then a big box of money will be found and shared-  look-- I think I see it now...  next to the money tree~!


HA

Are your eyes brown? You're so full of shit that they must be...

Smiles.    Life is too short to be upset and wound up 24-7.    So some humor is a good thing.     :-D

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
Life is too short to be upset and wound up 24-7. 

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aneirin

quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh come on Anerin.  All ya gots to do is protest- and get the right guy in office- and then a big box of money will be found and shared-  look-- I think I see it now...  next to the money tree~!


HA

Like a few others on here, I believe authority is already a done deal before any election, for whatever party, whatever name whoever gets in does not upset the status quo so much that it cannot be brought back into line with the status quo, usually at the expense of the plebian, as is happening now with the cuts. The wealthy took too much in one go and caused an imbalance, the books will be balanced and the peasants will be balancing them, so the wealthy can continue to take.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Anyway, I believe free education, or affordable education is an experiment conducted by the controllers, see if they could get more productivity out of us, perhaps it has failed, so they are reigning in on the further and higher education in anyone except the elite. The state education is still required to train young people to be slaves. Which is a thinking further enforced by the fact that school teaches nothing of real use, not things like how to fill out benefit forms and such, because although not the reality, it is expected everyone will seek work as soon as is possible, the benefit forms are cunningly constructed to dissuade most applicants.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Schooling is basically geared towards getting its victims used to the idea of employment, and always have been: what other purpose is served by getting kids used to get up in the morning and going off to spend all day with day with people they dislike, doing things that don't benefit them any? Under current circumstances, that now seems a bit over optimistic.