If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys w/ keyboards, why is there no Shakespeare coming out of AOL?
No, the first thing one must do is to come to terms with where Hyde and all of the other programs just like it (Synanon style TCs) fit into our society. It's an ugly subject. But it seems pretty evident that it's not just this one maniac and his few followers. There's a market for this sick shit throughout the country and even Europe and, I hear tell, Saudi Arabia.
People have been speaking up, pretty loudly. Look outside of the discussion on just this one school and find out about all the litigation, shocking news stories and other muck raking that has surrounded these groups since the daze of Manson and Synanon. Trouble is, nobody cares. People are more afraid of the mythical juvenile super monster on Angel Dust than the reality of how these places operate.
As Pogo said, we have met the enemy and the enemy is us.
I think Hyde will either implode or quietly fade away like most fringe cults do.
We get crushed in the first three, four years of school...We're trained to become parrots. We're trained to learn information and give it back at test time. But we're not taught to think. We're not taught how to access genius.
--Victor Villasenor, author of Burro Genius (2004)
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