Hmm, no, that's not what I'm talking about. Even though the logos are very similar (only real difference is the school has an acorn while Art's cult had a mustard seed), I think it's probably just coincidence. It is a common theme, after all, and not an entirely bad idea on the face of it. We very obviously have a cultural problem in many of our inner city areas. And this new Seed, 30 years hence, looks to be yet another federally funded attempt at planting some Good® seed in those austensibly fallow fields.
No, what got my attention was that the Büsh handlers have chosen
this reaculturation project to show off to the British royalty this time around. As far as I can tell from what I've read (very cursory glance, really) it seems to be a good deal better than what Nancy Reagan had to show in the `80's. At least some of the kids are allowed to go back home on the weekends or some other breaks (it wasn't clear from the journal entry) and hang w/ their own "boys". And, evidently, it's not verboten to speak of it, even to include it in program advertising material.
But I came away from my brief research w/ the distinct impression that this is yet another attempt by the elites to hijack and reinvent the children of people who they view as their poor, pathetic inferiors. That the kids and some of their parents buy into it doesn't really make a compelling case for the idea.
It's one thing to get a decent education and to learn the stupid human tricks necessary to pass for a full member in the exclusive clubs where one has to blend in in order to make a decent living. It's something entirely different to seperate kids from their own kin and neighbors and convince them to reject, out of hand, their own legacies.
Would we really be a better country or a better people if, say, New Orleans or Mo Town had been waspified?
I can't tell from here how much of one and how little of the other is going on there. I just thought it was interesting that the shrub saw fit to bring the royals to a boarding school. So I looked into it just a bit.
That's all.
That which does not kill you can make you stronger, but I really never needed to be this strong.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5580/straight.html' target='_new'>Scott Wagner
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Drug war POW
Straight, Sarasota
`80 - `82