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Well, first of all, punk rock died before I was even born. In fact, it was happening when my parents and teachers were young adults, and they're totally unaware of any of that. This wasn't "Why is this kid acting out?", this was "who would ever do such a strange thing?" My mother once told me that she was alive in the 70s, and nobody listened to Black Sabbath, the media just likes to pretend that everyone did. People in the suburbs are completely isolated into their own little worlds, and they don't interact with (nor care to) anyone who comes from more than one little town over.

Secondly, lo and behold, I was both immature and unhappy with the status quo! So, I did exactly that. Accomplish something? It wasn't about accomplishment, it was about eliciting that reaction. It was pretty freaking hilarious. People acted like it was the end of the world. They couldn't possibly imagine that anyone would be different from anyone else in any real way. It's not like high school offered any kind of real academic challenge or interesting discussion. I had to do something to make those 8 hours of being babysat a day interesting, until I could get back home and start coding again.

I refer to race because that a pretty visible example of how everyone was the same. I don't believe that anyone is better than anyone else for anything but their accomplishments. Nice troll, though.




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