LOL, trouble was my middle name, but they could not do anything to me, they feared me because they looked stupid .. it was also different time +50y ago .. now days I'd be put on "behavioral" drugs for being a nuissance .. I feel sorry for the younger generations..
😂 Same here, Igor! I went to Catholic school until 10th grade. I was taller than most of the boys and when they’d pick on my smaller friends they’d get an ass-whuppin’. I think the only reason I wasn’t expelled was because I was a straight A student 😉
Of course that was back in the day when you could kick someone’s ass because they needed their ass kicked! Don’t ask me about the years I was a bartender…
I grew up at the height of the Cold War. When one of my teachers told us “Better dead than Red”, I asked “Why?” You’d have thought the world was comin’ to an end.
I always viewed Communism merely as an alternative way of governing. Why better off “dead”?
Similarly, when I used to watch westerns with my father, I wondered why
Indians were portrayed so negatively. WTF? White people were stealing their land, and the Indians were understandably pissed off.
As a teenager, I was in the minority during the ‘67 Arab-Israeli war. Ummm…..wasn’t Israel “created” at the expense of the Palestinians? Oh, those brave, plucky Israelis, who had the advantage of modern firepower as opposed to the Arabs’ WWII Soviet armaments…
Perhaps it’s because I am astrologically blessed with two double signs: Sun in Pisces and Ascendant in Gemini, and am able to see both sides. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
i believe it is impossible to have society without government and hating the idea of government probably doesn’t serve us. the trick might be in creating a fluid, experimental, sometimes bottom-up, and sometimes, tho perhaps less often, top-down government, if we humans ever get the chance. i suppose there have been examples of this in our history and that some forms of such government exist still today. it is good to imagine what this could look like.
Yes, I would sometimes get into trouble when I would question my teachers lessons.
LOL, trouble was my middle name, but they could not do anything to me, they feared me because they looked stupid .. it was also different time +50y ago .. now days I'd be put on "behavioral" drugs for being a nuissance .. I feel sorry for the younger generations..
😂 Same here, Igor! I went to Catholic school until 10th grade. I was taller than most of the boys and when they’d pick on my smaller friends they’d get an ass-whuppin’. I think the only reason I wasn’t expelled was because I was a straight A student 😉
Of course that was back in the day when you could kick someone’s ass because they needed their ass kicked! Don’t ask me about the years I was a bartender…
Lol David: same here.
I grew up at the height of the Cold War. When one of my teachers told us “Better dead than Red”, I asked “Why?” You’d have thought the world was comin’ to an end.
I always viewed Communism merely as an alternative way of governing. Why better off “dead”?
Similarly, when I used to watch westerns with my father, I wondered why
Indians were portrayed so negatively. WTF? White people were stealing their land, and the Indians were understandably pissed off.
As a teenager, I was in the minority during the ‘67 Arab-Israeli war. Ummm…..wasn’t Israel “created” at the expense of the Palestinians? Oh, those brave, plucky Israelis, who had the advantage of modern firepower as opposed to the Arabs’ WWII Soviet armaments…
Perhaps it’s because I am astrologically blessed with two double signs: Sun in Pisces and Ascendant in Gemini, and am able to see both sides. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
i believe it is impossible to have society without government and hating the idea of government probably doesn’t serve us. the trick might be in creating a fluid, experimental, sometimes bottom-up, and sometimes, tho perhaps less often, top-down government, if we humans ever get the chance. i suppose there have been examples of this in our history and that some forms of such government exist still today. it is good to imagine what this could look like.