Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Totally. I was such a daydreamer in elementary school. The teacher would be talking and I


SQUIRREL!

lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Sadly, this. Daydreaming and letting your mind wander is a skill school does a good job of stamping out. That anyone comes out at the end with the ability to think for themselves is a testament to the person, not the school system.

Unfunny headline. Not a good way to start the increasingly lower quality weekend threads Saturday, FARK!

lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Or, you know, actually good at something.

utahraptor2: lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Or, you know, actually good at something.

What if you're good at being a mindless sociopath?

So, is this what they drug out of a kid with an ADD drug? I've always had this "problem" and my brain is full of trivia. I can memorize whole Python skits and deal with esoteric regulations, but can't do my own taxes.

PonceAlyosha: What if you're good at being a mindless sociopath?

Then you probably won't make it in a technical field. Unless you're a sociopath and a good technician.

Say, have you even entered the work force yet? Or are you just an angry college kid going off other people's cynicism?

RuleThirtyFour: Unfunny headline. Not a good way to start the increasingly lower quality weekend threads Saturday, FARK!

You don't even have any approved links.

//not even my headline

Some kids are just antsy dumbfarks.

/successful despite my incredible laziness, that's what smarts are useful for.

damn...I guess that pointy thing blanks out a line...

what I said in it, above,
160 IQ ...and I still don't know why I walked into a room

/duh, geez

My mind wandered as a kid and it still wanders as an adult. I constantly have to stop people mid-sentence when I realize they're saying something interesting or important and ask them to start over, this time with me paying attention. I had a friend in high school that got used to this and would order me to focus before starting on a story. Kinda sucks...I should probably get treatment but I figger I've survived this long without doping down.

PonceAlyosha: utahraptor2: lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Or, you know, actually good at something.

What if you're good at being a mindless sociopath?

You have a future in marketing.

Schools, especially the public ones, do not want "sharper brains". They want obedient bodies.

"Sharper brains" tend to ask questions that certain people in power don't want to be asked.

Are you the sharpest hammer in the drawer?

I had a friend that would jingle keys in front of my face when she talked to me and I would space out.

Unfortunately, sharp minds aren't of much use if they can't focus.

I suddenly feel better about my ADHD.

RuleThirtyFour: Unfunny headline. Not a good way to start the increasingly lower quality weekend threads Saturday, FARK!

Chin up. Any minute now the Caturday thread will be up.

AllUpInYa: Unfortunately, sharp minds aren't of much use if they can't focus.

I know for me it's not that I can't focus, it's that I can't focus on what stupid people are saying. Unfortunately 3 billion people are below average intelligence. Maybe it doesn't help that I come from a hunter and trapper bloodline that makes it impossible to grasp imaginary concepts like theory or words.

Is ADD not recognized in the UK, or has the article author not heard of it?

/Extreme ADD person who identifies with this article.

StanTheMan: Is ADD not recognized in the UK, or has the article author not heard of it?

/Extreme ADD person who identifies with this article.

Nothing a smack to the face doesn't fix.

lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Cutthroat sociopaths dont like having people around who are smart enough to tell they are cutthroat sociopaths. Intellectuals are the first against the wall after a coup

So now ADD is a gift, rather than the disability created as a cop-out for bad parents raising brats?

I started to read the article, but I got distracted by my harmonica.

I for one am grateful that I do not have Attention Switching Disorder

and those that do drive me crazy.

When are we going to start medicating them?

Attention Whoring Disorder is worse.

SuperTramp: I'm more like a pinball of music. People say things and it makes me think of songs.

Yeah, babay. (new window)

Attention's just another word for nothing else to do
nothing ain't something if you can't see
feeling good is easy Lord when I know what's going on
know what's going on around me

Farmer: Yackaty yack don't talk back.

Hunter: "Yawn, yuck boring."

"Squirrel" ! kill, clean, eat

"Now, what where you going on and on about, again
Farmer?"

Farmer: " As I was saying,,,What squirrel?
Why can't you just pay attention and eat last years crop?

PonceAlyosha: utahraptor2: lewismarktwo: Doesn't matter, if you want to be successful you still have to be a mindless drone or a cutthroat sociopath. Intelligence and imagination are not rewarded.

Or, you know, actually good at something.

What if you're good at being a mindless sociopath?

You run for office.

TV's Vinnie: [static.culturemap.com image 640x480]
Schools, especially the public ones, do not want "sharper brains". They want obedient bodies.

"Sharper brains" tend to ask questions that certain people in power don't want to be asked.

You do know that you can be an intelligent questioning being without being rude.

Example: A teacher mispells a word on the chalkboard and you notice. What do you do?

A. In front of everybody yell out in the middle of the class, "Miss you spelled misspells wrong". Having the whole class disturbed because kids tend to like to make a mountain out of mole hill and use any excuse to laugh.

B. Whilst doing your work point out to the teacher quietly that the word is wrong and trust his/her good grace to point that out to the other students.

I don't think teachers mind students questioning them or the subject matter, I believe they mind how the students do it. I am sorry but many students seem to take the path of douchdom when doing so.

No I am not a teacher.
Why yes I am married to one.

Guest: TV's Vinnie: [static.culturemap.com image 640x480]
Schools, especially the public ones, do not want "sharper brains". They want obedient bodies.

"Sharper brains" tend to ask questions that certain people in power don't want to be asked.

You do know that you can be an intelligent questioning being without being rude.

Example: A teacher mispells a word on the chalkboard and you notice. What do you do?

A. In front of everybody yell out in the middle of the class, "Miss you spelled misspells wrong". Having the whole class disturbed because kids tend to like to make a mountain out of mole hill and use any excuse to laugh.

B. Whilst doing your work point out to the teacher quietly that the word is wrong and trust his/her good grace to point that out to the other students.

I don't think teachers mind students questioning them or the subject matter, I believe they mind how the students do it. I am sorry but many students seem to take the path of douchdom when doing so.

No I am not a teacher.
Why yes I am married to one.



Yeah, well, nice spin there. Too bad the Reality is something totally altogether different from your POV.

Teachers aren't there to enlighten anyone's kids. They're just state-hired jailers, making sure the prole larvae don't start thinking for themselves, and to immediately crush all glimmer of hope from them. The Elite don't like it when the labor force start thinking for themselves. Classrooms are just training sessions on how to Submit and Obey.

See, by your own example, you prefer that the kid be a little eunuch and "quietly whisper" to teacher that she's wrong instead of letting the whole class know that Teacher isn't so all-knowing as he/she likes to brag that they are. That way, you have a teacher who can crack down on the little freethinker without letting the rest of the class know what it was that got him sent to the Principal's office.

Oh how teachers hate it when their ironfisted stranglehold is challenged in their little kingdoms.