 If I remember correctly, this is supposedly a free-thought essay… which is all well and good, except now you leave me with a vast void which I have to fill with thought that just doesn't happen to be coming. Perhaps if my brain were working at this time it'd be much easier for me. Actually I'm thinking about the comic book that I'll be writing soon. you see I have it all worked out: story line, characters and such, because it's really based on a true story. My friend Richard and I have been writing it on and off for the last two years. We had wanted to make it into a novel because it's so really controversial and we had planned to write a book that'll be banned in schools or something like that. (See we liked Catcher in the Rye and were quite inspired when we heard that it had originally been banned.) We think that real life is much more shocking than fiction so we wrote kinda about Freshman year of high school; when all the important stuff happened. Of course the book would only be banned in America because only Americans like to ban everything they don't agree with.
Last night I heard a stand-up comic (Jello Biafra) who had a funny bit about banning everything. It was a voice of a typical red-neck, beer-drinking conservative who was thinking of all the terrible things he had done when he was younger during the liberal sixties and wanted to avoid the questions his kids would have when they went out into the world. So, he came up with the brilliant idea of banning everything. (No offence of course to the conservatives; that's not what I meant. After all I am also conservative.) I just think it's funny, as from an outside perspective I really think it's truer than not. Americans really do like to ban everything, and if not ban it then put it into inaccessible or bad-mouthed categories just to be sure that their kids won't understand the world as they do. Very funny. Maybe that's why there's such a big drinking problem on the campuses: in banning everything the kids have such a sense of rebellion when they are finally free of their parents jurisdiction that they want to try everything just to prove their 'adulthood' and sense of personal responsibility (or lack of it) that they end up overdosing on what they don't understand. I'm fortunate in having experienced many things under guidance of my parents, so I understand personal consequences and the folly of it all. But who am I to judge?

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