The further one delves into the many websites of the United States Government, the more obvious it becomes as to why we can't balance the budget, or why it takes so long for more than three Senators to agree on anything. Redundancy runs through many of the names of organizations, and far too many "Office of Such and Such" seem to have far too specific titles.
Take the Office and Safe and Drug Free Schools; it sounds dignified enough, although I didn't realize an entire government office was actually required to track this problem, but things get confusing when you consider offices already exist to preform this task, like the Health Resources and Services Administration. Or you could also take into consideration the Substance Abuse and Mental Services Administration (for future reference, I refer to these three groups as the “trinity of political correctness”). This trinity has created a massive bully prevention program that sells the idea of prevention by promising constituent schools that “bullying is by no means a childhood inevitability”.
So from the top down, parents are taught that our main goal for our children ought to be erasing all their pain and suffering off the face of the earth.
The Trinity of P.C. provides videos, motivational speakers, pamphlets and booklets discussing what they call “bully- prevention”. These safety ideals were put into action in the Public Playground Safety Handbook, and were later introduced to the masses with what is called “Anti- Bullying Legislation”.
Legislation.
Blink.
Blink, blink.
That means somewhere in an office, a state representative will encounter the term “bully- prevention” in a proposed bill. It means national “Bully Prevention Awareness Week”. It means bully phone- trees. It means bully- prevention ribbons, Mothers Against Bullies and after school anti- bully clubs.
It means the first public official not to leave the gate running over any such policy, funding proposal or potential legislation with the wording “bully- prevention” buried in some pork will undoubtedly be crucified in the media and either voted out of office or impeached because he’s “soft” on bullies.
Translation: Social policy is being dictated to the majority by a few over- protective parents.
Translation: Parents are no longer responsible for their children’s actions. In fact, neither are the children.
What happened to, “stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”?
How many bullies went on to be bigger and better than everyone else after high school? It doesn’t happen, even in the movies. They always wind up becoming drunks, second- class husbands, inmates or fragged by their own troops.
In the end, bullies never win.
It’s always the nerds, the ugly people, the fat kids, who overcome the nasty name- calling from fellow students. It's the geeks, stutterers and acne- ridden who bury there noses in books and figure out how to turn doo- hickeys into handy household devices, or suddenly become so beautiful at the age of consent they launch their own makeup line. They turn into millionaires.
Ever hear of Steve Jobs?
Richard Simmons?
Nerds have far fewer “issues”, far less baggage, far less insecurities. Their flaws are public. There is no escape and they know it. They capitalize on it as a means of survival.
If you were on the receiving end of taunts and teasing in school, be patient.
And if you were the one taunting, your day is soon coming- and I can promise you the humiliation will be public.
In the immortal words of Louis Skolnick from Revenge of the Nerds:
“We have news for the beautiful people; there are a lot more of us than there are of you.”
Bullying is nothing more than an imbalance of power or strength, usually shifted by those who don’t have any balls.
Ever been to the DMV? Fill out the wrong shipping form at the post office?
Bullies.
Everyone of ‘em.
They may have better pensions, but we get laid more often. And we live longer.
I consider that a fair trade- off.
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