On Jan 30, 11:06 pm, Linda <Indomitab...@netzero.com> wrote:
http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/that-was-then-this-is-now
That Was Then, This Is Now
By Daniel Miessler on October 31st, 2007: Tagged as Culture
[ From a Forwarded Email ]
School, 1967 vs. 2007 vs. 2047
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes to
his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, and FBI is called. Jack is hauled
off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called
in for traumatized students and teachers.
2047 - Jack registers for a 30 week course to learn how to boot up the
firearm's M/S .2050 "shrew shot" O/S. At least 4 weeks of training
will involve learning how to successfully unjam the familiar BSOD
terminal lock up. Tech support services will be provided by
Microsoft's recently opened, Mauritanian call center.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end
up best friends.
2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested
and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started
it.
2047 - Both kids break off the fight when the lights suddenly flicker
out in the newly instituted & energy saving graveyard class cohort. M/
S's newly re-installed school process '20 went into BSOD lock up
because it was issued 5 years earlier pre-infected malware. The
school admin. is still waiting for the long promised .05 beta release
SP.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class
again.
2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with ADD and given huge doses of Ritalin;
becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey
has a learning disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad
gives him a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in
foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist convinces Billy's
sister that she remembers being abused herself, and their dad goes to
prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1967 - Mark shares aspirin with principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug
violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college,
and graduates.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear
nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for
graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state
school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core
curriculum. Pedro is given a diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns
for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July,
puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant
bed.
1967 - Ants die.
2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security, and
FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are removed from home; computers
confiscated. Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never
allowed to fly again.
2047 - There are no ants. The entire, family Formicidae, went extinct
2 decades earlier ....
