i'm not gen x, millennial, but i grew up in a red county where almost all the schools are blue indoctrination camps. it made for a fairly batshit insane experience. i didn't actually know how insane it was until i was kicked out, then enrolled in a normal high school and saw what that was actually like.  mind you, i don't say this from a political frame of mind. the only thing i see is neobolshevism on the rise and everyone else being vaguely aware something isn't quite right about the blues now and unsure of what it is, only that going red seems like the only recourse against it. i just have to imagine that the schools are so much worse now, they probably never had the opportunity to just fuck off and look for one that isn't some crazy brainwashing camp. i wish i was just being schizo, meeting a famous teacher from my old school at a bar and having him brag to me about what they were doing with the biggest, kikiest grin on his face shattered that comforting delusion. i don't think he remembered i was the one in his class that got away.
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