Dull Week
In the end, not much has happened. I've had more classes cancelled than classes that actually happened. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why this week was even necessary in my university life. The lecturers and tutors don't seem to know what they're doing, and the reorganisations of many tutor groups have left me having to make new friends all over again. Which isn't particularly easy when most of the first years like me are not particularly friendly types.
It's been good to see my friends again though. I've realised that it's only through interaction with these people that it stops me going completely insane. Not that they aren't insane anyway, but things can get a bit lonely at times. This really helps, and we have some good times together.
The world is full of comment about Prince Harry at the moment, and his rather stupid choice of costume for a party. I'm not going to let fly with my views on the Royal Family, as I don't want to go into things like that on this blog, but I do find the side issue it has raised quite interesting. It was only inevitable that certain people were going to start coming forward with their mass generalisations and broad strokes of their Ignorance Pen.
Yup. Just because Harry, 20 years old and thus one year older than me, did it, it must also mean that everyone of my generation doesn't have a clue about the significance of the Holocaust, and that we are all in need of some firm discipline. It's the usual nonsense about how we allegedly don't care for what happened in the past, and looking back with rose-tinted glasses about how wonderful children used to be. These days, they are all ill-mannered, impatient and act in a disgraceful manner.
Of course, it just isn't true. Thanks to the stupid actions of one single stupid man, who just so happens to be quite a celebrity figure, "the youth" are now being told that we have no respect for the sacrifices our elders made for us.
I find these allegations offensive to me and to my peers. We all know full well exactly what Hitler did. We will never forget what happened. Of course, we must always continue to educate the next generation, and those after that.
Having said that, there is also a lot of other nonsense being spoken. Harry is 20 years old. Really, it's old enough to know better - especially when you consider he is supposed to have had the best education in the country. Yet, there are still plenty of people leaping to his defence with the usual "boys will be boys" and "he's just a kid! leave him alone!" bollocks. I also heard one commentator insinuate that what teenage boy hasn't ever dressed up as a Nazi? Or that this kind of behaviour is somehow normal.
I'd love to know what circles these uninformed people move in. I certainly don't know anyone while I've been growing up who thought it would be fun to dress up as a Nazi. Not that it really matters if they did - in jest - but, still... it's not a particularly popular thought amongst the "Youth Of Today". So to somehow suggest that "what teenage boy hasn't ever dressed up as a Nazi?" is rather more an indictment on the person saying or thinking that view, rather than against my generation.
It simply isn't true. People need to learn to think just a little.
I despair for our society.
It's been good to see my friends again though. I've realised that it's only through interaction with these people that it stops me going completely insane. Not that they aren't insane anyway, but things can get a bit lonely at times. This really helps, and we have some good times together.
The world is full of comment about Prince Harry at the moment, and his rather stupid choice of costume for a party. I'm not going to let fly with my views on the Royal Family, as I don't want to go into things like that on this blog, but I do find the side issue it has raised quite interesting. It was only inevitable that certain people were going to start coming forward with their mass generalisations and broad strokes of their Ignorance Pen.
Yup. Just because Harry, 20 years old and thus one year older than me, did it, it must also mean that everyone of my generation doesn't have a clue about the significance of the Holocaust, and that we are all in need of some firm discipline. It's the usual nonsense about how we allegedly don't care for what happened in the past, and looking back with rose-tinted glasses about how wonderful children used to be. These days, they are all ill-mannered, impatient and act in a disgraceful manner.
Of course, it just isn't true. Thanks to the stupid actions of one single stupid man, who just so happens to be quite a celebrity figure, "the youth" are now being told that we have no respect for the sacrifices our elders made for us.
I find these allegations offensive to me and to my peers. We all know full well exactly what Hitler did. We will never forget what happened. Of course, we must always continue to educate the next generation, and those after that.
Having said that, there is also a lot of other nonsense being spoken. Harry is 20 years old. Really, it's old enough to know better - especially when you consider he is supposed to have had the best education in the country. Yet, there are still plenty of people leaping to his defence with the usual "boys will be boys" and "he's just a kid! leave him alone!" bollocks. I also heard one commentator insinuate that what teenage boy hasn't ever dressed up as a Nazi? Or that this kind of behaviour is somehow normal.
I'd love to know what circles these uninformed people move in. I certainly don't know anyone while I've been growing up who thought it would be fun to dress up as a Nazi. Not that it really matters if they did - in jest - but, still... it's not a particularly popular thought amongst the "Youth Of Today". So to somehow suggest that "what teenage boy hasn't ever dressed up as a Nazi?" is rather more an indictment on the person saying or thinking that view, rather than against my generation.
It simply isn't true. People need to learn to think just a little.
I despair for our society.
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