The forecast
for our mountains calls for a probability of rain tomorrow. Therefore, no shadowy apparition should be
seen by irritated and sleepy woodchucks.
I see no need to rise before daybreak in order to poke at an angry
rodent in order to satisfy some old superstition or tradition. Just because our ancestors did it that way does
not make it worth preserving. They used
to hunt for meat with bits of rock tied to sticks, thereby becoming meat as
often as acquiring meat.
What other
useless traditions might we dispose of?
Our youth are
wailing and complaining about the cost of college education. They feel that student loans are hampering
their ability to enjoy college life fully and that their lives after leaving
college are ruled by the necessity of working to repay student loan fees. Many college students have been led to
believe that their parents owe them college educations.
This same set
of students may well believe that new cars, credit cards, and spring break
trips are things that they are all entitled to enjoy. Credit card bills amassed during spring break
trips are not really education costs.
Nor are automobile expenses, auto insurance, and other luxuries such as
gaming systems
Also in the
tier of useless traditions, w might find field houses and stadia. The myth of the student athlete competing for
the non-existent honor of a university is exactly that, a myth. Those pseudo-students are recruited and
housed in luxury dorms with under the table money for dessert in order to coax
wealthy alumni to keep funding an athletic program that serves only those
pseudo-students who will most likely play at some game until hurt and unable to
play, or until recruited by a professional franchise. In either case, graduation is unlikely. Benefit to the average student due to a
professional athletic training program is next to non-existent. In fact, it causes their student fees for non-class
work related items to be higher.
As much as
they would complain if those professional athletic programs vanished, the
alumni who most likely are complaining about leaving taxes to their spawn would
demonstrate not one bit of regret at saddling future generations of students
with the costs of new athletic facilities, their upkeep, and the outrageous and
un-necessary salaries paid to coaches and trainers that exist only to service
the mercenary athletes who are looking for the best pro-recruitment draft
deal.
Think about
it. I’ve never heard a college athlete
complain about tuition costs or student loan reimbursement. That is truly a useless tradition!
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