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Richmond Secondary College * by Flick Ruby
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* Bashings, Blunders and Bloody Socialists
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Answering machines are pretty vile. I never have my rave all nice and
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compact for them and end up getting cut off half way. During the Richmond
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Secondary College campaign the telephone tree woke me up at 5.30 am so many
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times I considered becoming a logger and setting up a protection society
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against branch leaders. Whoever our branch leader was, they got to speak
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to our newly inherited answering machine and heard Richard Nixon and a few
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chicken squarking messages but they were not swayed. Unfortunately a few
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friends up the road just kept ringing and singing so I would give them a
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lift.
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I'm glad I went down because I really believe that the form and content of
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education is the most insidious way of creating a uniform mentality of
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conformity and passive, mute, obedient citizens. Education is one of the
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first state institutions that people find themselves in at age 5. It's
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like the first meat mincer we are forced into and we come out a bland kind
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of hamburger mince at the end. Basically, the mind is colonised in the
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present school system by the ideology of patriarchal capitalism with its
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scientific death fetishes and its great 'objective' knowledge. While I'm
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critical of the present system, what it is set up to achieve and what it
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produces, I'm sure that learning could be different, much different.
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Dawkin's great quantum leaps backwards in 1988 are being continued by
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Kennett by reducing accessibility to education, by cutting socially
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critical subjects and by making education a degree granting assembly line.
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About 160 schools across Victoria have been closed down by Kennett, a
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disguisting display of governmental priorities. Lots of people down at
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Richmond became actively involved for the first time which is good. Others
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saw it as a great oppportunity to further their careers as pyramid
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newspaper sellers, some got a real ego preening out of the whole affair and
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the state got to test out new and exciting ways to bash and spy on people.
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The campaign isn't over but it's over for me. I got pretty fucked off with
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it all especially the repetitive ritual of being dragged away every morning
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by cops who were politely allowed to cross the picket line en mass. I
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think that's madness and part of the great "We can placate the police and
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let's not alienate the public" line. I think some people woke up to this
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one. At one stage I was standing linking arms with people in front of the
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gates and a woman with a kindergarten teacher voice came up and said
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'What's the key word? PASSIVE resistance'. She should have brought flash
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cards.
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