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[dwer.livejournal.com]

wat

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Well, it is true that the American dream isn't all that it is cracked up to be, no?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

argument against modernity

im surprised you couldnt or didnt decipher the cartoon

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

and if they let their dog-companions roam free, some metal behemoth will kill the pup!

/tho i do like modern medicine when i need it

[senshifan.livejournal.com]

/tho i do like modern medicine when i need it

But who can afford it???

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

I mean, I was given vaccines for things at an age where I am pretty sure I wasn't paying for anything.

So even just at the level of inoculations for babies, it comes in handy.

You ever worry about Polio? Didn't think so.

[senshifan.livejournal.com]

I never worried about polio, the flu or even chicken pox. But now, as a pseudo-adult, I can't afford birth control, check ups, or anything else essential to staying healthy. And with my parents being well into their later years, I have to worry about them as well. I just hope they survive until I turn at least 22.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

(that said, I could totally use a doctor checkup bout now, but no insurance, so yeah, i do totally get your point)

[rubyspirit.livejournal.com]

Like!

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

well anything sounds bad if you say it like that

my favorite part is that someone took this picture (digital camera) after travelling there (airplanes) and then digitally manipulated the image (computer) and posted it on the internet (connectivity)
:D

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

and they probably had to get shots before going. shots that those kids probably don't get. and when they get home they can take medicine they ordered online. what happens when one of those boys steps on a nail?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

I suspect that it was not all done by one person.
But the picture could have been taken and uploaded without the use of an airplane.

[404.livejournal.com]

I like modernity, I'm sorry if the author has a bone to pick with it. I like the idea of not living a horrible existence, at the brink of starvation with a bad harvest, not knowing if I will live to 50 or half my family suck or dying because there is no clean water to drink, &c.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

North American public school wasn't perfect but I was never conscripted into a child army or had my limbs hacked off by some rival faction.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Thatś more central and south America.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

over half the world's child armies are in African countries

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

I'll take this for 500, Alex. I rather prefer my technological industrialized civilization.

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

This is why I enjoy interpreting pedagogy lectures and workshops. Today I learned that even greeting kids at the door with a smile results in a 22% increase in on-task performance. Also the most efficient seating system for learning is 2 desks, side to side, and the worst is a group of four where 2 pairs of kids face each other.

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Also economic strife results in a pessimistic view on life and results in more depressed kids (no duh.)

Also learned that Denmark has the lowest failure rate related to literacy, correlated with the fact that they don't start developmental reading assignments until age 8. France, on the other hand, teaches literacy at age 4 and some of the highest failure rates.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Chemicals taste good. Or they don't and prevent your food from growing bacteria that kills you. Either way.