May 7, 2008
Class
Kurt Vonnegut said, “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” I disagree. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is no longer running the country and that somebody else’s is.
My high school class was smart when it was okay to be smart. If my placement in my graduating class means anything, the whole batch of them were a lot smarter than I. Then, of course, according to Tom Brokaw, we were all of us the Greatest Generation and still are and could have told Tom at the time if only he’d been around to ask.
Anyhow, it’s all rock and roll. Whatever number of my high school class is left to run anything is so far as I know not running anything that amounts to anything to run, let alone a country. But the truth is, whatever high school class is running the country these days should be ashamed of themselves. From the looks of things, if they weren’t already dropouts, they must have flunked civics.
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