Local Heros..
I was talking to a friend of mine on Brigidine (bandicoot.merseine.nu 9390) about T-shirts and misadventures, recalling the time I wore a linux T into a meeting at microsoft..
and this lead to recounting the story of the youth who wore a pepsi shirt to Coke day – and it occured to me – this guy was a local hero.
Maybe he originally did it as a joke.. and it is rather funny.. but he also was making a statement, possibly inadvertently, that his education was not for sale to any corperation that would make a business agreement with his school..
.. which is kind of a novel idea in this day and age, with channel one broadcasting to our children, coke and pepsi vying for their affections before they even get out of high school.. [start marketing to them early..]
No, seriously, I think it’s pretty shameful that we’re allowing our children to be invaded by corperate propiganda before they’ve learned enough to develop immunities to it. I remember back in my day (geeze, geeze) that we actually had, as part of our english courses, a few days spent on understanding the mechanisms of advertising – deliberate attempts to inject immunity from such things into us.
Now any teacher teaching people how to be immune from ads would probably be let go. Heck, students apparently get suspended for failing to toe the party line.
Nonconformity in a high school is a bad thing — The principal of Hylton High School, 1995
Here’s to all you future local heros out there.. those of you with the balls to inject your own signal on top of Channel One, wear Coke shirts on Pepsi day, point out in loud voices the obvious fallicy of nutritional education sponsered by McDonalds.. to the younger generation of intelligent rebels, we’re counting on you. Make it funny, and make it hit them where it hurts.
October 3rd, 2003 at 5:12 am
Screw coke, screw pepsi, the best cola is the house brand one they sell at costco for $3 for a 24-pack. It’s so generic I can’t even remember what the hell it’s called, and they certainly don’t have a tshirt for it.
As far as the principal of hylton high school is concerned, look at from the point of view of an educrat. Nonconformity, at best, causes more work for him, and we couldn’t have any of that, now could we?
December 14th, 2003 at 7:48 am
actually, that was one of the vice principles…as I recall the short bald one who dogged our lunch table waiting for a chance to get us (but he never found one). I can’t remember the name, though.
Vinnie