Today’s youth: dumb, dumb, dumb.
I’m feeling a bit pessimistic today, what with the state burning down and polar ice caps melting and all. Mark Morford at the Chronicle can always be counted on the shine the light of sarcasm and dry wit onto our many crumbling institutions and values, and he did so in perfect fatalistic fashion today with a depressing account of how dumb today’s youth are. As in absolutely clueless, uneducated and incompetent. While I’m just the messenger, I’ve always suspected as much. While this entry may seem more relevant for the little locked diary I keep under my mattress, I decided to write about it here because Ethsix is my outlet for believing that some people are still doing amazing, selfless, brilliant things, and if I toss this crisis out to the clued-in masses maybe someone will one day do something about this. Our public schools inflict systematic child abuse, and once again, as with so many other of our misdeeds, we will all suffer the consequences. Doom and gloom indeed!
