corey's column- Rock Sound August 2004
i got this from the magazine rock sound its pretty awesome there are interviews and shit and they had some articles about Finch,taking back sunday,sum 41, billy talent,the bled,atreyu,new found glory,eighteen visions its pretty sick i got it from amsterdam so i'm thinkin its just sold in europe but i dunno anyways the article i thought it was partly true and pretty funny but it was a little over dramatized but here you go:
where is it written you have to be smart?where is it written you have to have common sense? where it is written you have to be well-read, well-spoken, well-mannered and whatnot? i'll give you a hint:even if there was a book, half the population couldn't read it in the first place. the % of people all over the world who have no education is, to be quite honest, STAGGERING. obviously, in some countries, education is not readily avaible, so we are taking steps to improve that. but the fact that some people graduating from schools these days are still increasingly illterate is a slap in the face to everyone who never had the chance or choice to obtain one. choices. it all comes down to choices, and that some people would choose to be ignorant is horrifying to me. the evidence can be seen on the ineternt. it's like people log on and toss their brains in the garbage for a few hours till they get off. that's believing they had anything to remove in the first place. they call it "shorthand", but i can read shorthand. do you know how many times i've had to ask someone what the hell he or she is saying to me? its ridiculous. spell check is another culprit. why bother learning spelling or proper diction when the computer can fix anything? the very technology we pride ourselves on making us appear more intelligent makes us even more stupid. there are many problems out there, but it all starts in the schools. teachers making a scratch above what they could make flipping hamburgers at Mcdonald's have the heavy task of preparing today's generations for tomorrow's responsbilities. but with teenage belligerence and present-day killing sprees, would you want to do anything but serve your time and get home before most kids get out of detention? i can't blame them, but i can't condone it either. it's almost like "uneducated" is preferable to "arrested for murder" your commeneded, applauded, even if you can get trhough school without causing a fuss, so they graduate you for showing up and little else, that being as education. i didn't graduate high school, i didn't go to college. i CHOSE to learn. i CHOSE to feed my mind information instead of nintendo. i have a better vocabulary than some college students whose only pursuits seem to be beer bongs, keg stands and date rape. nobody in college is happy when grades are posted they're only happy when they can go to daytona and fuck with the "most likely to end up on girls gone wild" chicks why? jeses fucking christ. why? isn't it embarssing to appear idiotic? isn't it painfull to look foolish? answer? "hell no" woooooo! ignorance is so bad that people actaully give themselves credit when they are the dumbest ones in the room single digits IQs how nice. how unequivically pathetic. i wouldn't have a problem if it stopped there so i wouldn't spread to the gene pool but sadly, they have become parents, andare encouraging their children to be as dumb as themselves, remember when parents actually wanted their kids to go to school so they could have the opportunties they didn't have? well it's a family heirloom and don't it make ya proud to be part of that tradition? in all fairness there are thousands who are trying to break the cycle they work everyday to destroy the throngs of depression that come with the illiteracy and ignorance but there are only so many of us and we can only do so much so do me a fuckin' favous: read something do something to feed your mind do something to help yourself if for no other reason, do it to make yourself more dangerous because i'm telling you right now, there is nothing more intimidating on this planet than an intelligent mind. next time someone "smarts" off to you give them a better retort than "fuck you" give them something to think about if they can wrarp their puny little brains around it the time is now because that's tje only measure of time that exists remember: choices. its all comes down to choices its all comes down to if you want to enter this world ready with a gifted mind and a brave soul, or do you want to wander aimlessly with no real ambition because you can't figure out how to make change for the bus? do you want to evolve, or do you want to stagnate? do you want live in a world that's yours..or do you want to due in a cesspool that's theirs to defile? your choice. this discussion is far from over. where's the syntax.....
where is it written you have to be smart?where is it written you have to have common sense? where it is written you have to be well-read, well-spoken, well-mannered and whatnot? i'll give you a hint:even if there was a book, half the population couldn't read it in the first place. the % of people all over the world who have no education is, to be quite honest, STAGGERING. obviously, in some countries, education is not readily avaible, so we are taking steps to improve that. but the fact that some people graduating from schools these days are still increasingly illterate is a slap in the face to everyone who never had the chance or choice to obtain one. choices. it all comes down to choices, and that some people would choose to be ignorant is horrifying to me. the evidence can be seen on the ineternt. it's like people log on and toss their brains in the garbage for a few hours till they get off. that's believing they had anything to remove in the first place. they call it "shorthand", but i can read shorthand. do you know how many times i've had to ask someone what the hell he or she is saying to me? its ridiculous. spell check is another culprit. why bother learning spelling or proper diction when the computer can fix anything? the very technology we pride ourselves on making us appear more intelligent makes us even more stupid. there are many problems out there, but it all starts in the schools. teachers making a scratch above what they could make flipping hamburgers at Mcdonald's have the heavy task of preparing today's generations for tomorrow's responsbilities. but with teenage belligerence and present-day killing sprees, would you want to do anything but serve your time and get home before most kids get out of detention? i can't blame them, but i can't condone it either. it's almost like "uneducated" is preferable to "arrested for murder" your commeneded, applauded, even if you can get trhough school without causing a fuss, so they graduate you for showing up and little else, that being as education. i didn't graduate high school, i didn't go to college. i CHOSE to learn. i CHOSE to feed my mind information instead of nintendo. i have a better vocabulary than some college students whose only pursuits seem to be beer bongs, keg stands and date rape. nobody in college is happy when grades are posted they're only happy when they can go to daytona and fuck with the "most likely to end up on girls gone wild" chicks why? jeses fucking christ. why? isn't it embarssing to appear idiotic? isn't it painfull to look foolish? answer? "hell no" woooooo! ignorance is so bad that people actaully give themselves credit when they are the dumbest ones in the room single digits IQs how nice. how unequivically pathetic. i wouldn't have a problem if it stopped there so i wouldn't spread to the gene pool but sadly, they have become parents, andare encouraging their children to be as dumb as themselves, remember when parents actually wanted their kids to go to school so they could have the opportunties they didn't have? well it's a family heirloom and don't it make ya proud to be part of that tradition? in all fairness there are thousands who are trying to break the cycle they work everyday to destroy the throngs of depression that come with the illiteracy and ignorance but there are only so many of us and we can only do so much so do me a fuckin' favous: read something do something to feed your mind do something to help yourself if for no other reason, do it to make yourself more dangerous because i'm telling you right now, there is nothing more intimidating on this planet than an intelligent mind. next time someone "smarts" off to you give them a better retort than "fuck you" give them something to think about if they can wrarp their puny little brains around it the time is now because that's tje only measure of time that exists remember: choices. its all comes down to choices its all comes down to if you want to enter this world ready with a gifted mind and a brave soul, or do you want to wander aimlessly with no real ambition because you can't figure out how to make change for the bus? do you want to evolve, or do you want to stagnate? do you want live in a world that's yours..or do you want to due in a cesspool that's theirs to defile? your choice. this discussion is far from over. where's the syntax.....