Samuel: What's going to be the result of all of this media publicity surrounding the kids who killed fifteen people (incl. themselves) at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado? More authoritarian legislation aimed at kids? Anti-gun legislation? Pro-gun legislation? Better attempts to integrate high school kids into "mainstream society"? I hope the latter...DADDIO: Eh? I thought "mainstream society" was the PROBLEM. Guns, violence, divorce, abuse, neglect, corruption, T.V., video games, drugs, disfunctional relationships, neuroticism, pollution, bad diets, authoritiarian legislation, etc. Aren't these typical aspects of "mainstream society"?
Weren't these two kids PRODUCTS of mainstream society? Certainly they were at least products of their parents who are most certainly considered mainstream. They own nice suburban homes and have succesfull professions. Everyone that knows them says that they are the most "normal" people you'd ever want to meet. Doesn't that sound mainstream to you?
Seems to me like "mainstream society" has some serious problems that need to be reevaluated before making more efforts to integrate kids into it. I'd say that the safest thing you could do for your kid right now is get him as far away from mainstream society as possible. Pull him out of public school, turn off the television, and go camping alone in the woods somewhere away from all of this crap and confusion.
