freediots...

okay, now the freepers have seriously pissed me off. normally, i find their incoherent and irrational ramblings entertaining, because their babbling is so divorced from reality, but now they have targeted something sacred: north carolina governor's school.

governor's school is basically a place where the nerdy high schoolers of north carolina get a chance to experience an entire world outside of public school rote indoctrination and to socialize with equally precocious dorks. i attended in the summer of 1993, and we were exposed to concepts and subjects such as deconstruction, non-linear algebra, UNIX (listen, it was 1993), and the music (or anti-music) of john cage. we were encouraged to think outside of the box, to think abstractly, and to question. we also had a shitload of fun. it was like a utopia of hypersocial nerds. it was one of the first times i truly felt like i was on the same wacky, overactive plane as everyone else around me. it was one of the first times i felt like i was comfortably ordinary instead of a misunderstood aberration.

both my sister and i attended. she in music and i in math. both of us had an excellent time.

(warning, i'm going to come across as an elitist, but i really don't care.)

listen freepers. i can safely say that none of you had the intellectual capacity to make the cut at governor's school, because if you did, you would have attended and understood what it was all about. in fact, i doubt most of you spent any time in north carolina besides driving on I-95. so let me educamate yo' azzes. the thing about governor's school is that we are taught concepts that may be unorthodox, but we are encouraged to question them, to discuss them, and to form our own opinions about them.

READ: YOU ARE ALLOWED TO QUESTION AND ULTIMATELY REJECT YOUR INSTRUCTOR'S POINT OF VIEW (as long as you are able to back it up).

there is no such thing as indoctrination in governor's school. in fact, governor's school exists to fight the idea that people should be indoctrinated.

furthermore, the "protect the children" guise is completely ridiculous, considering that most governor's school attendees are 17 years old. these aren't elementary school kids. american history x is rated R, and at age 17, you don't need your parents' permission to see an R rated film. (at age 17, you can see even see an NC-17 rated film without anyone's permission!) and if the freepers would stop obsessing about sex, perhaps they'll realize that american history x is a film about the underlying reasons behind the formation of extremist groups and the perpetuation of extremist ideology in american society.

so take your uninformed crap and shove it up your rectum.