i do not use red pen when marking up papers because i do not like using a red pen when i mark up papers. so maybe i am complicit in this process of encouraging students to think for themselves by reducing the pointless flourishes that are about nothing but authority in and for itself, which would be part of what i assume you mean, mojo, with your term
"pussification"
were i you, mojo, i would be more concerned about the very macho educational trajectory that enabled you to imagine "the pussification of america" means anything.
it sounds like the kind of phrase that would pop into your mind during your fourth or fifth week of 24/7 limbaugh.
are you advocating anything here, really?
an education that inculcates servility, that respects authority, no matter how bankrupt, because it is authority?
an education that persuades students that a cretin with a gun is more free than someone who can think for themselves?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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