| Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| Ivy, the weed of choice |
Walking around the campus today. Walking around the Duke University
campus today taking a break from my job in the high-energy physics
department. Walking around the campus today when I realized that perhaps
Duke people really are just better than the rest of us. More attractive, glossier
coat, healthier teeth, hip dysplasia, all of the typical symptoms of inbreeding.
As much as it can be said that this campus is a microcosm of the society as a
whole, then the scientists that I work with are the unclean, the lepers.
The lepers revere me, I offer to them the
things on which they thrive:
Perspective, truth, facts, sweat,
potential and kinetic energy.
There seems to be a real regard
here for inconveniencing the
lowly saps not fortunate enough
to be them, even without benefit
of logic, or use. Stand in the
doorway, when you could as
easily stand aside, people who
need to get by are by definition
not you, and therefore less than
you.
I don’t wish to be one of them, my
heart’s desire is to in some way
make them know beyond
doubting that theirs is not the
way of honor. Their depravity is
encouraged by the societal swells
that find in them some worth that
outweighs the ugliness of their
action.
The world wants them to act like
this, and it rewards them when
they do. There needs to be
change in the world. The world
seems only to react well to
instant gratification, and
positive reinforcement, so I
must be careful in choosing the
actions, steer society gently,
that it may not know it’s own new direction.
campus today taking a break from my job in the high-energy physics
department. Walking around the campus today when I realized that perhaps
Duke people really are just better than the rest of us. More attractive, glossier
coat, healthier teeth, hip dysplasia, all of the typical symptoms of inbreeding.
As much as it can be said that this campus is a microcosm of the society as a
whole, then the scientists that I work with are the unclean, the lepers.
The lepers revere me, I offer to them the
things on which they thrive:
Perspective, truth, facts, sweat,
potential and kinetic energy.
There seems to be a real regard
here for inconveniencing the
lowly saps not fortunate enough
to be them, even without benefit
of logic, or use. Stand in the
doorway, when you could as
easily stand aside, people who
need to get by are by definition
not you, and therefore less than
you.
I don’t wish to be one of them, my
heart’s desire is to in some way
make them know beyond
doubting that theirs is not the
way of honor. Their depravity is
encouraged by the societal swells
that find in them some worth that
outweighs the ugliness of their
action.
The world wants them to act like
this, and it rewards them when
they do. There needs to be
change in the world. The world
seems only to react well to
instant gratification, and
positive reinforcement, so I
must be careful in choosing the
actions, steer society gently,
that it may not know it’s own new direction.
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I will never fit in here, never. I am not rude or
slovenly, or stupid enough to ever get respect from
the students here at this august institution.