I think I get more exercise getting on and off the soapbox than doing anything else. There’s something about speaking up, once you do it for a while that gets to be a habit. So often people are just passively sitting by while the most horrific things happen and then they wonder why such things happen.

Part of the problem is the education system which, in the early years is geared towards putting out good, passive citizens who won’t raise too much hell about things. There are no critical thinking skills taught and when these are raised by students they are labelled unruly and given Ritalin or whatever for their “hyperactivity” or such things.

It’s appalling that kids are getting as medicated as adults these days. If people were taught to stop being so scared of each other and scared of themselves rather than being “cooperative” to such a degree that everyone becomes doormats to the more powerful maybe there would be some real change in the world.

But that’s not going to happen any time soon. So it’s just more of the same.

Here’s another one for the complaint department. No wonder this catagory has more entries than any other on this blog.