Lifeboat Ethics

Today, the school was informed the Margeaux would become the new student dean. I think she is the best choice for such a post, but am as opposed to the existence of the position as I am to affinity groups. The very problem that having a dean of students attempts to fix will be accentuated by it. Per Quaker tradition, each teacher and each student is part of a whole welcoming community with no go betweens. There is no such thing as student interest since the interests of the community include those of each division and individual. Providing a link for students to address their problems to only creates a sense of unfairness that did not actually exist before. Secondly, creating a dean of students to protect interest groups simply says that students were treated unfairly before, which I don't agree with. The teacher's did work to create a fair LEARNING environment and students prospered. The only result I forsee of the change is increased laziness on both the parts of the students and non dean teachers to fix whatever small nuances exist.

In HUR we talked about social commentary expressed through music. John Lennon's mention of the non-existence of religion as a positive step towards a better community in his song "Imagine" made me smile. I have long been against religion. By birth or ancestry or whatever, I am Christian. I celebrate Christian holidays, but like both of my parents, don't even bother paying lip service to a God we see as non-existent. To me, religion is the weak person's escape from the harshness of life. I can understand that many people are down and out and need something to hold on to, but they need to understand: There is no meaning to life, we are simply animals only good for fucking and eating, everything else is just a bonus of evolution. The individual is no more important to the universe than my ass crack.

I hope I room with a fundamentalist in college.