11-26-2012, 04:55 PM
I feel that this whole issue is one that pervades all of society (I can't really comment outside of the UK)...but I suspect it exists as a world wide problem. This is an almost constant subject of contention (against society) in our family. My daughter going through college was told to re-do a piece of work 4x because it didn’t make the grade.. She got more and more distressed and did more and more pages of work...researching in the library late into the nights. In the end she asked a fellow student if she could look at her "merit" pass piece of work...She showed her half a page of work where basically she had cut n pasted the hand out sheet and inserted the key words from the lecture. In the end, it was that one word was missing from her report and when she finally substituted this word into her text she was given a pass only for her 6 page report,...the reason....,it's not appropriate to do research at your age so I've marked you down. Kids in the UK (for two generations now) have been brought up with cameras in the playgrounds and corridors and "we will tell you what to think, because you're not qualified" education. Then on top of this we have a barbed wire PC thinking that says something like this:-
(I'm sure plenty will disagree with this view
)
• Every one should conform and be the same – the same rule applies for all.
• We should defend the right of the individual to express themselves and be allowed to do what is good for them.
• Therefore, everything is acceptable and everyone should conform too and embrace everything.
However….
• If you do not accept this rule. For example if you do not subscribe to homosexual practice, being anti blood sports, agree to abortion, etc. etc.....if you don't tow the publicly held (PC) party line, (the new and approved one), then we the public, your neighbour, your peers, have a right to judge you and to oppress you and persecute you.
Dragging this back to our thread, I think that what we see in our frustration of the appearance of zombie poets is simply a symptom of what is happening in wider society. Poets (true poets that is...if such a thing is properly named) are people who have already got out of the PC box....poetry is defiantly not normal according to society (as has been discussed previously). Poets look askance at their society and the world and have been known to parody and criticize the perfect utopia that our respective governments have provided. I'm not in favour of war if it can at all be avoided, but revolutions (and for me as a Christian) martyrs are what historically have been the path to live in the freedoms that everyone so likes to boast about in the "civilised world",...I suspect that a great many of said revolutionaries and martyrs were poets.
Back at the zombies knocking at our door....we just need to be more evangelistic in our outlook and do a better job of polluting them to some out of the box thoughts.
(I'm sure plenty will disagree with this view
)• Every one should conform and be the same – the same rule applies for all.
• We should defend the right of the individual to express themselves and be allowed to do what is good for them.
• Therefore, everything is acceptable and everyone should conform too and embrace everything.
However….
• If you do not accept this rule. For example if you do not subscribe to homosexual practice, being anti blood sports, agree to abortion, etc. etc.....if you don't tow the publicly held (PC) party line, (the new and approved one), then we the public, your neighbour, your peers, have a right to judge you and to oppress you and persecute you.
Dragging this back to our thread, I think that what we see in our frustration of the appearance of zombie poets is simply a symptom of what is happening in wider society. Poets (true poets that is...if such a thing is properly named) are people who have already got out of the PC box....poetry is defiantly not normal according to society (as has been discussed previously). Poets look askance at their society and the world and have been known to parody and criticize the perfect utopia that our respective governments have provided. I'm not in favour of war if it can at all be avoided, but revolutions (and for me as a Christian) martyrs are what historically have been the path to live in the freedoms that everyone so likes to boast about in the "civilised world",...I suspect that a great many of said revolutionaries and martyrs were poets.
Back at the zombies knocking at our door....we just need to be more evangelistic in our outlook and do a better job of polluting them to some out of the box thoughts.