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Hyde's Mr. Burroughs
Ursus:
Like the cherry red, Ed, but boy, did that pic screw up the formating, lol! Think the horizontal max is 'bout 600 px, you can size it down if you use HTML instead of BBC...
Ya know ya got two nozzle options with that baby! :lol:
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---And I think this cause is institutionally designed to be enforced and to survive independently of any personality.
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National Commitment: An obedient citizenry that conforms -- with but minor questioning -- to Administrations of corporate greed and political/economic consolidation of the few.
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Your description is of the status quo.
My science-fiction scenario of Hyde triumphant would be the reformation of the American high school into something part boot camp, part church. Academics would be a ghost of its former self. High school would be a persecuting society that cultivates unanimity of opinion among students, peers, and parents and wouldn't tolerate dissent. With the closure of the free market of ideas, there would be an overall dumbing down of the school community. Graduates would carry their mind set into business, politics, religion, etc. Civil war (with the disaffected elements) always on the horizon. Not a pretty picture.
Ursus:
My picture was really more of an Orwellian scenario, scarier due to its believability and mundane, almost ordinary qualities, but I think we do not differ so much at the heart of each of these prospective depictions...
Really, I think it is going on right now, creeping ever more imperceptibly towards the Brave New World, and has been for some time. The national pulse is beating, beat by beat, into a long swing of a conservative, control-oriented society. Trends in education alone: No Child Left Behind (aka No Child Left Untested), Zero Tolerance (control the little buggers every chance you get), Character Education (only viewpoints deemed respectful of the status quo will be tolerated)... Taken to their extreme, which is not so far off, these trends do not bode for a vibrant, creative society, conducive to the furthering of new strides in progressive thought or tolerance for those different from ourselves.
That kind of world will suffocate itself, but not before it has made a lot of money for the conservative elite.
Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---My picture was really more of an Orwellian scenario, scarier due to its believability and mundane, almost ordinary qualities, but I think we do not differ so much at the heart of each of these prospective depictions...
Really, I think it is going on right now, creeping ever more imperceptibly towards the Brave New World, and has been for some time. The national pulse is beating, beat by beat, into a long swing of a conservative, control-oriented society. Trends in education alone: No Child Left Behind (aka No Child Left Untested), Zero Tolerance (control the little buggers every chance you get), Character Education (only viewpoints deemed respectful of the status quo will be tolerated)... Taken to their extreme, which is not so far off, these trends do not bode for a vibrant, creative society, conducive to the furthering of new strides in progressive thought or tolerance for those different from ourselves.
That kind of world will suffocate itself, but not before it has made a lot of money for the conservative elite.
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Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ed Legg"" ---Here this should do the trick
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why doncha undo the trick and resize?
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