donttelldaddy: (Trollface)
I apologize for my absence. The enormous amount of NEWT-level coursework I've decided to take on had caught up with me. I surely could have dropped a few classes this year, but there's no use bemoaning it.

Halfway through my last year, and graduation still can't seem to come soon enough. As time goes on, I only find more things to despise about this place. I sometimes think I should have stayed in France.

And then I remember that my peers and I would actually be supervised, instead of being watched by a herd of half-drunken hooligans who still have their baby fat, and decided one morning to masquerade as pseudo-authority figures. It's my theory that half the staff were arrested after a bar brawl, the police got lost on the way to the jail, and dropped them all here instead. It's cute. Everything's much more fun when those in charge are more likely to join you in your rule-breaking than punish you for it.
donttelldaddy: (Telling secrets)
What is power, exactly? We tend to think of it as something that bad people seize, but really, it's just given to us by others. Given to us by those who elect us, or those who willfully obey us because we just happen to be older, or our weaker-minded peers that allow themselves to be coerced or conquered. It's the same everywhere for everyone. Those with power have had it given to them.

And yet, it seems that every day, those in power grow less and less competent, does it not? Ineptitude is rampant on every level, from political leaders, to the teachers in our schools. Why don't people contest that more often? Because they're in charge, and we fear retribution? Well, here's a secret: they're only in charge because we believe that they are in charge. If you don't allow anyone to tell you what to do, they're not telling you what to do anymore, they're merely making a suggestion. Reassigning power isn't a difficult thing, really.

Just food for thought~

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