Dear Students
Wednesday, 1 March 2006Hello fellow collegians!! I have been a senior citizen of returning student status for sometime, and thought I might enjoy letting you in on a point of view based on my life experience mixed with funny politics ad nauseum. Specifically, I wish to use our current system of trade in the U S of A, which many of you take for granted to be a legitimate system, in order to shed light upon your position as members of an institution known as Western Higher Education or what-have-you. You shall be taken on a short journey down the path of your own non-resistance, should you choose to read past my introduction, which is so deliberately “tooth on tongue,” or “cheek by cheek” grammatically speaking.
Seriously, though, students, let’s take a look at where we stand on the food chain right now. Let’s assume that all over the country, the power structures we know of as employer to employee, etc, are fair. Let’s say that once one comes into the position of having enough money to employ other people, this person should be able to make decisions on behalf of these employees, regarding the way they schedule their lives, how they dress, conduct themselves, etc, if only while at work, which given the current state of economic affairs, I need not argue tends to be for a larger and larger percentage of time as time goes on.
If we look at it another way, it is pretty well assumed in this country that when one agrees to take on a salary, one becomes to a lessor or greater degree, the employers BITCH. To what degree is not up to the employee — but for his or her choice to move on to another employer — but the employER, and certainly there are good and bad bosses to be found, no question. Still if at some point, the man or woman in charge of payroll decides that things are going to be run a little differently, etc, it may very well be the case, no matter how those getting paid by the same may feel on the matter.
Let’s just say that’s fair.
NOW — this is the real bite in the crotch — you, as students, are paying the administration, the bookstore, the teachers, the president, the organizers, etc. etc, a salary. And you, as students, are cheerfully accepting of the fact that the power structure in your institution is to have YOU behaving as an employee. It doesn’t matter if you’re borrowing money — have any businesses, successful, or unsuccessful, been built off of borrowed money? And in the time it took for the successful ones to pay that money back, was the power structure any different?
You kiss ass, you show up to class, you do as you’re told, you drop a suggestion every once in a while, mostly when it’s asked of you, but all in all, you are paying the salary, and acting like a BITCH.
Don’t let your school keep pimping you and taking your money.
Start a riot or burn your book store down or something, fuck if I care, but don’t keep getting pimped out like that.