Never give in on anything, no matter how minor, because these troubled souls never quit.
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Scotland educators cancel Nessie
Scottish pupils will be taught the Loch Ness monster is anti-Scottish because its legend was a creation of the British class system that portrayed Scotland as 'primitive'
Loch Ness Monster is seen as a symbol of England’s domination of Scotland
Pupils will be taught how class structure had a role in the creation of the legend
Campaigners see the lessons as ‘nationalist' and aimed at ‘brainwashing’ pupils
Take a swarm of people searching for meaning and a way to fill their hollow, yearning souls and give them a cause — it doesn’t matter what — and they’ll scramble to it like drowning rats to a liferaft. And when people can make a living supplying that need, is it any wonder that they, having captured one prominence, keep the passion, and their jobs, going, merely move on to the next one?
Many, many years ago, when I was a smart-ass 17-year-old, a friend of mine and I would travel to D.C. to the anti-war demonstrations then in vogue. Dressed in denim jackets, steel helmets and leather gauntlets, we’d work our way to the head of a milling crowd and scream “to the White House!” and charge off in some random direction. We’d get a good following racing behind us for a few blocks, and then change direction and yell “to the Pentagon! or even “to the Smithsonian!” Again, the crowd would follow blindly. I don’t believe we ever tried “to the National Gallery”, but I’m sure it would have worked just as well.
The object of the game my friend and I were playing was to see how many idiots we could collect as we worked in large circles around downtown Washington: hundreds was a good effort, thousands was a triumph.
My life-long contempt for the thinking power of mobs, while more fully-developed when I reached campus and observed the SDS at work, was bred on the streets of our capital.
