my bad school experiences

I never really rebelled, but there were moments when I came close, and there were moments when I knew I wanted to do something else:

• When I was being led to pre-school aged five, I questioned (to myself) how us children we being treated, and felt that I should feel free to go to the nearby beach by myself if I wanted to.

• When I was five and starting primary school, I wanted to start learning about basic computers. I was hopeful that I would have the option, if optimistic. I waited to be asked what I wanted to do. Instead, I was given a colouring-in task and shouted at by the teacher for rotating the page. I told the teacher I can do what I want. I quit that school and thought it was a terrible culture, but then I simply went to another school which operated fundamentally the same, but I accepted it and wasn't rebellious enough to tell all the adults around me that they should be serving me, not the other way around.

That experience alone — of being treated as nothing more than a name on a register — should be enough to make it clear that the education system is designed to erode humanity. Someone who believes that this is an acceptable way of treating children deserves no mercy. It is more than just an insult to intelligence. It is "a boot stamping on a human face".

"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."

• When I was about ten, again came a moment when I was doing computer class and I found the obedience quite ridiculous and inefficient, and I know I'd have been better off just reading from a book. I think I was angry and thought to speak out then and there, and almost did, but decided against, maybe because I thought it'd be futile.

• Around the same age, I wished I could have just taught myself programming almost all school day every day, using the school computers and spending longer than the 6 or 7 hours a day, and I thought to ask, but I knew I wouldn't be allowed. In hindsight, I should have not only felt free to do what I wanted, but been invited to and clearly given the opportunity to do what I wanted. I also would have played a lot more team dodgeball if there was a system by which I could have signed up to play repeatedly with others who also wanted to.

• When I was 16, I had squeezed all the juice out of my brain, as you do when you're not a filthy casual, so, thinking myself a slave to the system, I did the only thing I could which was become addicted to my phone, watching YouTube and gaming during all my free time at home and into the night. I wasn't sad, but I was compulsive.

So, in conclusion, damn this goddamn school system to hell and back. These politicians are useless scum, "like moths to the light of power". Them becoming politicians is not about the people and their future. It's about them and their exercise of power and sense of importance.

Every once in a blue moon they do one useful thing for every five detrimental things they do.

Randomly selected people would do a better job of governance than any political party which is all just certain kinds of power-seeking people, and 99% of power-seeking people have their heads up their asses, and that's the problem.