Only a matter of time before we're all locked up

Godamnit...WAKE UP...its not a joke.

 

Been locked down, it doesn't seem to help them out

 

Lol. Never heard, "Big brother's watching you"? Like the Brave new world reference with the double PLUS good. Seriously, its not funny though! Im scared shitless about the direction of this country!

 

I think that with the direction this country is moving, alot of the laws try to address issues that are not what they seem. I think with alot of the drugs and shit, they know that people who smoke weed or take shrooms are going to have different ideas about politics and shit and these weird people want to concentrate their closed minded society by effectively preventing people with the "wrong" ideas from voting or polluting the collectinve urban consciousness.

 

Ha. They love people who smoke weed, because for the most part it just makes you stupid. Take any stoner compared to anyone who doesn't smoke, and on average the latter is going to be a lot more clear-minded and willing to get shit done. As long as the stoner has weed, food, and a place to smoke, he's happy.

 

there are many able stoners in the world that do things you know.

 

If you're a stupid lazy asshole then weed makes you a pot-smoking stupid lazy asshole.

Weed doesn't make you lazy, it just shows you how trivial everything else is.

 

It makes everything else seem trivial. That's exactly what I was saying.

 

I heard there putting chips in those vaccines...

 

Welcome to the world of subjectivity. I say that having a job and working a 9-5 is trivial. Others tell me that is what makes you successful.

Everything depends on your definition of it, unfortunate thing is, there is not a correct definition.

 

I think most people would agree that matters which directly affect their entire way of life are not trivial. Anything that makes them seem so is probably fine with the people in charge.

 

Jobs only affect you because they are part of the society we live in. If I want to sit around and smoke pot all day, I might say that I'm leading a successful life. Others might tend to disagree since they are looking at my choices through a lens tainted by their culture. Everyone has a different set of things that they consider trivial or important. When I judge another's list, those judgments are based on my preconceived notions of what success is.

 

Three teens and a mother were arrested in the 'cake-dropping' incident at a school in Palmdale, CA.

The girl was arrested for dropping cake, a student arrested for videotaping the incident, and the mother arrested for complaining to the school.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5677461


Excerpt:

"PALMDALE, Sept. 26, 2007 (KABC-TV) (KABC) -- Three teens and a mother are arrested after a scuffle with security guards at Knight High School in Palmdale. An investigation is underway as to whether excessive force was used by the guards.

One of the students arrested caught the whole thing on video. The incident was instigated over cake.

It was a birthday party at Knight High School in Palmdale. Early last week, during lunch hour, students say the cake dropped, and then everything else dropped. There was mayhem and chaos. On the heels of this incident, a group of parents and students plan to hold a protest on Friday.

This is exclusive video that a student at William P. Knight High School in East Palmdale used his cell phone to capture video of 16-year-old Pleajhia Mervin being arrested by campus police early last week.

Mervin says a security guard slammed her against a table at a lunchroom at the high school and twisted her arms behind her back so violently, he broke her wrist. Her wrist is in a cast."


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Who mentioned jobs?

 

You really can be arrested for anything. But it isn't a deal with the laws its the police and the corruption of power. I remember in my socialology class this expirement.

They took 20 normal, everyday people (teachers, home makers, store owners, ect) they gave each a role to play. 10 of the people were locked in a cell as prisoners. The other 20 were to be prison guards. Now remember these people are equals, some neighbors and work together. Anyway the 10 that were the prison guards were gave the responsibility of giving the food to these people every day, they were responsible for what time they got up and went to bed, the basically were responsible for every choice that these people had to make.
At first the prison guards were nice, even helpful. But after a month or 2 these people started to change. They became mean and spiteful. Some resented having to take care of these people and others liked having the power over them.
Anyway at the end of the expirement the lesson learden was that power over another person corrupts even the most respectable person.

 

I don't think that experiment went on for months -- maybe as long as a few weeks. Who can take months out of their life to play 'prison guard'? But still, it is an interesting experiment. Can you remember its official name? I can't be bothered to look it up right now...

 

Got the time frame wrong but it was called the standford prision experiment....
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four undergraduates were selected out of 70 to play the roles of both guards and prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Roles were assigned at random. They adapted to their roles well beyond that expected, leading the guards to display to authoritarian and even draconian measures. Two of the prisoners were upset enough by the process to quit the experiment early, and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The experimental process and the results remain controversial. The entire experiment was filmed, with excerpts soon made publicly available, leaving some disturbed by the resulting film

 

Oh yeah this is how they figured out who was to be prisioners and who was to be guards...

Our study of prison life began, then, with an average group of healthy, intelligent, middle-class males. These boys were arbitrarily divided into two groups by a flip of the coin. Half were randomly assigned to be guards, the other to be prisoners. It is important to remember that at the beginning of our experiment there were no differences between boys assigned to be a prisoner and boys assigned to be a guard.

 

I wonder what would have happened in the Zimbardo mock prison if someone had accidentally dropped cake on the floor.

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Somewhat similar to the Zimbardo mock prison experiment, a grade school teacher a couple decades ago would conduct an informal experiment each year where some of the kids in the class were deemed to be special and the rest weren't. The special ones felt superior while the un-specials felt inferior.

Then the roles were reversed. The same thing happened again.

I don't remember the name of the school teacher. The 'special' kids were chosen to be ones that had a certain eye color.

At the end of the experiment everyone made sure that they were friends again.

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