Maybe I really should not become a teacher because...
Monday, June 12th, 2006 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwing... they are everywhere! In the streets, in the schools, on every internet site I innocently come upon, there are flocks of them, teenagers, mostly, but there are also some who are in age groups when such behaviour should belong to the past. "Goths". "Emo"s. People who can't make up their minds as to what to call themselves this week. Americans, mostly, but also a few British people and Germans.
And they write poetry. Well, they call it poetry. Mostly, it's just random lines, often very badly spelled small-case one-word lines, and not because they are fans of e.e.cummings, but because they are lazy. I even asked one of those perpetrators, and they said that their spelling (which even turned out to be quite interesting in some parts if bad) was accidental, they just did not bother checking, because "this is the internet and wat do you want to do sue me next time ok?"
Maybe it is all one big conspiracy and it's not really bad poetry which in fact is not, in any sense, poetry, but a code language of a secret society? There certainly is a pattern, all their poetry contains two or more of the following words:
1. Death
2. Black
3. Pain
4. Nothing
5. Blood.
Right, maybe, I am unfair. I am not a poet, so I should not judge their efforts. And theirs are similar to what mine have been, back in my "crappy poetry"-phase. And maybe it's better that I did not have the ongoing anonymous support of the internet back then, or I might have started being like them, vomiting up these "poems" and then putting them on internet pages festering with similar "art", certain of the praise of all others. GAH. And everybody has those emotions, but then, every teenager has them. And that's the point. What I don't get is why they have become trendy to be depressed. Yes, trendy. What I learnt in my psy courses was a serious mental affliction has become a trend. Which is annoying and very dangerous, because now I never know which one of those self-proclaimed "highly depressed" people I have to seriously worry about. There are too many real depressed people hiding online.
And why do there have to be so many of them? And why do they walk around telling people they "express" themselves by their clothing and go round telling people that they are a goth and do not like to be labeled in the same e-mail?
Gah. Why is this a life style, and why has it reached teenagers? Why why why?
And I don't want to have to teach them. I don't want to face a class made up people dressed in black with solemn faces who think that they have seen it all and that they now can judge about life, the universe and everything with the experience of their thirteen to twenty years.
Argh.
And they write poetry. Well, they call it poetry. Mostly, it's just random lines, often very badly spelled small-case one-word lines, and not because they are fans of e.e.cummings, but because they are lazy. I even asked one of those perpetrators, and they said that their spelling (which even turned out to be quite interesting in some parts if bad) was accidental, they just did not bother checking, because "this is the internet and wat do you want to do sue me next time ok?"
Maybe it is all one big conspiracy and it's not really bad poetry which in fact is not, in any sense, poetry, but a code language of a secret society? There certainly is a pattern, all their poetry contains two or more of the following words:
1. Death
2. Black
3. Pain
4. Nothing
5. Blood.
Right, maybe, I am unfair. I am not a poet, so I should not judge their efforts. And theirs are similar to what mine have been, back in my "crappy poetry"-phase. And maybe it's better that I did not have the ongoing anonymous support of the internet back then, or I might have started being like them, vomiting up these "poems" and then putting them on internet pages festering with similar "art", certain of the praise of all others. GAH. And everybody has those emotions, but then, every teenager has them. And that's the point. What I don't get is why they have become trendy to be depressed. Yes, trendy. What I learnt in my psy courses was a serious mental affliction has become a trend. Which is annoying and very dangerous, because now I never know which one of those self-proclaimed "highly depressed" people I have to seriously worry about. There are too many real depressed people hiding online.
And why do there have to be so many of them? And why do they walk around telling people they "express" themselves by their clothing and go round telling people that they are a goth and do not like to be labeled in the same e-mail?
Gah. Why is this a life style, and why has it reached teenagers? Why why why?
And I don't want to have to teach them. I don't want to face a class made up people dressed in black with solemn faces who think that they have seen it all and that they now can judge about life, the universe and everything with the experience of their thirteen to twenty years.
Argh.
