Sometimes it just doesn’t do to lean on other people to keep yourself upright. Some people take the time to learn how to balance themselves and to stand on their own, while others skip the process entirely and instead burden their peers with their weight. There are so many things that we could call this; indolence, dependence, even self-centeredness.
In my opinion, these people are the ones who get in the way of progress. They disrupt the whole productive and meaningful process that we call life, and multiply to dominate the population and thus create an inferior race. Harsh? I don’t think so. Just honest.
Recently, a friend of mine – one of the few remaining intellects in the enormous joke that we call school – was kicked out of his class for what his [incredibly dense] professor called, “assaulting” the presenters.
The situation had been simple enough. The group had been assigned a topic to report on, and my friend had naturally wanted to benefit from the report. He could not see the relevance of the information being presented, and therefore asked reasonable questions to clarify the presenting group’s point. No provocative language had been used, nor did his tone of voice imply any sort of violence or intention to “assault”. However his questioning of the presenters, according to the professor, was out of line; and my friend had been asked to leave the class permanently.
I find this disturbing. First of all, it was an assigned presentation. The topic was given, and so was the time constraint. Now if these students had been responsible, then they would have done their research properly and made sure they understood the subject matter thoroughly; because how are you supposed to teach people something that you yourself can hardly comprehend?
Second of all, the professor should have intervened if she found any student’s approach offensive. She should have then explained the answer herself in order to clarify the matter and eliminate whatever issue had arisen from the offending question. And did it ever occur to this professor that if those students had done their research properly then they might not have looked like a bunch of goggling idiots when asked questions that were completely relevant?
The real world is a bitch; this is just practice. These people rely too much on the chance that the professor is just going to let it slip that they are totally ignorant regarding what their topic is about, and further disregard the fact that all they did was paste a bunch of seemingly relevant information from Wikipedia. Keywords: seemingly relevant.
I doubt if people like this will make it very far in what everyone calls “the real world.” Because in this so-called real world, independence seems to be the primary factor that answers the question of whether or not we will survive; with “survival” being the attainment of our goals and contentment in life.
Our generation continues to disappoint me, as I am sure it does everyone else who gives thought to matters like these. I have a feeling that the seemingly insignificant behavior and downfalls of the people around us – the people of our generation – translates into more than just individual disappointments.
But who knows these things anyway, right…?
