02-27-2002, 11:08 AM | #1 |
Zhentarim Guard
Join Date: January 7, 2002
Location: Oxford
Age: 40
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This hit me hard.
traditional power hierarchies are first taught and acted on the battlefield of the playground. older children use their greater physical abilities to support their authority. strength is power. athleticism is power. girls gather by the lockers and begin the interplay of inclusion and exclusion. are we still friends with her today? social skill is power. popularity is power. attractiveness is power. but what of the children who possess that quality which the school was created to seek out and develop - the connection with an otherworld of creative experience that imparts a passion for writing, or for art, or music, or innovation and invention? the capacity for knowledge, and more importantly that skill that allows one to interpret and rearrange it in ways as yet unimagined? an empathy for other living creatures and a passion for promoting their well-being? a profound understanding of the human psyche and a probing questioning at the meaning of existence? intelligence is weakness. vision is weakness. creativity is weakness. because they make you sensitive - and sensitive people are the natural prey of the powerful. there are two kinds of strength in people... the strength of a person who has never been broken, and the strength of a person who has been broken, and healed. one is stronger than the other, but also more difficult. all too often, the healing process is interrupted, just like the healing of my hand, by the unrelenting demands of life. what results is a person healed crooked; like a bone healed crooked, slowly rubbing away in all the wrong places, degenerating until it can no longer function. the only thing to do is go in and painfully break it again.
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02-27-2002, 11:48 AM | #2 |
Harper
Join Date: October 6, 2001
Location: Iceland
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Thats very good, and oh so true.
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