I won't kill you.
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My school never really had cliques either. Just a bunch of social circles with varying degrees of overlap. That doesn't mean that people didn't have differing degrees of social status. Some people were well known and liked, could step into any social circle and receive at least provisional acceptance, and generally wielded plenty of social capital. Some people were just... ignored, and perhaps resented a bit if they tried to intrude on social circles where they weren't wanted.
The yearbook was never of much interest to me, but one year, I heard other students discussing the fact that it has a "Hidden Hottie" category, where it lists a student of each sex who's really attractive, but hasn't really been noticed for it. Listening to the students' discussion of who it might go to, I realized that there was a large number of students who were simply never in the running, not because they weren't attractive enough, but because they were too hidden. Their existence never impinged on the consciousness of people who concerned themselves with things like yearbooks. The sort of people who would win Hidden Hottie awards were in the middle of the social totem pole. Any lower down and you simply wouldn't be noticed by the higher ups, even if they started looking for people who "don't attract a lot of attention."
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
It's not necessarily about cliques and it's not unique to high school. I guess what brought this about was that the idea of teenagers being lazy smartasses may just be a stupid self-fulfilling prophecy. You know what, though? It may actually be easier to fix if it were a genuine biological problem, rather than a societal one.
"War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left." "Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
I won't kill you.
I dunno bout that. Hardwired is hard, BIOS hacking is ungood.
That, and do any of you have any clubs that are systematically defaced in the yearbook?
"Sweets are good. Sweets are justice."
No, but the yearbook is pretty strictly censored by the teacher who supervises its writing, so I don't know if they would have done that to some clubs if they could.
edited 31st Mar '11 3:52:32 PM by OnTheOtherHandle
"War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left." "Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
I won't kill you.
The defacing happens later, in the library.
"Sweets are good. Sweets are justice."
I despised those events too. The school system locked us up enough time doing boring stuff. They weren't getting any more of my time to do any slightly less boring activity.
I very much preferred to spend my time playing bass, for some 420, for videogames and hanging around other slackers.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.