I’m sort of in favor of English school bullying.

Like all bullies, they may be able to acquire a relative force advantage in the short term but in the long term, they have no staying power. Nor do they grow towards an ideal maximum potential.

Now we are “civilized,” and out boys are not allowed to bully, and Heaven forbid an actual fight in the schoolyard!

Civilization means you give up essential liberties for essential securities. If you wanted to live back in the Wild West and in which people could duel to the death over the slightest of social misunderstandings, then you are going to have a more hardy people. You’re also going to have more dead people and wasted manpower, but if that’s the price you want to pay, then go ahead.

You might think that’s a good trade off, until people realize that you can’t reverse time and bring back the Indians, Comanches, and Apaches. Then people start realizing that if they want to become “hardy”, government will have to create threats out of thin air. Which is what the Muslims have done and the black community of America as well.

America is at a position in which individuals no longer need to fight because they can solve their disputes in more fair and bureaucratic methods. Fair, if only because it is a pain to everyone.

You can no more bring back the steppe barbarian culture than you can rewind time, JJ. That kind of nostalgia is worse than useless.

In this regard, you might find interesting an article Jonah Goldberg published today about the snide attacks on the “Jesus fish.”

If the gays beat out the Mohammedans in this British match, I will be well and truly astonished.

And what was the result of all these bullied kids? England ran the world. The English public-school (which means preppies, who were the most bullied because they didn’t go home at night) kids were in charge of administering the planet, and the British Empire did so for a couple of centuries. (Centuries, let us remember, are hundreds of years.)

When England made education more nationalized, and outlawed things like bullying - the Empire went right to hell and fell apart.

When we gave free rein to bulllies in schools, and fights in empty lots down the street - we conquered the continent, and in various wars whacked England, Spain, Mexico, Germany a couple of times, England, Japan - you get the idea. Now we are “civilized,” and out boys are not allowed to bully, and Heaven forbid an actual fight in the schoolyard!

And look at the problems we’re having getting a grip on a bunch of clowns who never managed to invent toilet paper.

I don’t necessarily propose there is a connection - but I do feel free to wonder about it.

The end of mandatory government-monopoly schools cannot come soon enough.

We can yell all we want: “Leave The Children Alone!” But they won’t ever leave the children alone.

The situation will change only when outraged parents can put their children into the school of their choice. Radical social activists won’t be able to even get a TOE into the schools once the parents have full choice. They’ll have to win their arguments in the ADULT public arena, which takes so much time and is just SOOOO frustrating to them! Adults tend to be rational and demand proof, and we mustn’t have that!!! It’s all sooo frustrating; especially with all those naive little open minds are just there to be taken, against their parents’ wishes: a captive audience for the Glorious Message!

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2– A first title in a new line of books for children with homosexual parents , told in a straightforward manner. A young boy describes his father’s relationship with his roommate, Frank (they “live together, work together, eat together, sleep together . . .”)(from Amazon)

A similar picture book, Leslie Newman’s Heather Has Two Mommies (In Other Words, 1989) presents a lesbian family. ( also Amazon)

We have similar problems here.