School Destroys Free Thought; The Lack Thereof Fails to Induce It

I still have Murphy to do, but I'm really feeling the urge to postulate, and the outline is only 5 pages tonight. Neither Dan, nor Kadish, nor Colin, nor Ted, nor Carlin, nor Lee, nor Hannah (I've come to realize that Hannah is an excellent person with whom to have a conversation of postulation) is around, so I have this strange device called a keyboard and a computer which I shall postulate by pounding at instead. And I won't be postulating on the previous entry on aesthetics, because I'm still formulating a just rebuttal to the claims brought against me: it was written carefree, somewhat exaggerated, but not sarcastically, although it may have been easily misunderstood (because it was words, devices that can only be interpreted, HAHA!!). But anyway, I walked into English today, and I noticed that the desks were arranged in a slightly new pattern. So I sat down in the location that had always been my seat and probably would remain such. But the majority of the class, say 60% maybe, was very confused by this whole new arrangement. The majority of the class, in fact, took at least 1 minute more to sit down in a seat. Please note here, that the general layout of the classroom remains unchanged; perhaps 6-8 desks were moved slightly). Aha! You see my point. Or maybe you don't because I haven't said it yet. Aha! The point is that these people are so entrenched in their routine that the slightest deviation makes them unstable and unable to form decisions as quickly. Even for something as trivial as this, we observe this phenomenon. Now let's digress to my favorite topic: pre-civilization humans, hunter-gatherers, nomads, whatever you like to call them. Let's imagine this extended family of 40 humans of this development level walking through the West African jungle. Something unexpected comes up. They would quickly adapt to the situation and deal with it. Why? Because it could be a threat to their survival if they didn't. Aha! So you can see, what this is showing about our modern society, is that our lives have become such that we don't need the ability to adapt quickly anymore, so we can't do it anymore. Aha! It's the laziness the ague...! The inherent and inescapable lack of variety in modern life is dulling down the general level of adaptability, and, one might go so far as to say: creativity. You can't escape it. I can't escape it. It's killing us all. The only way to combat it is constantly reminding oneself of its existance, and remembering to exercise common sense. Aha! Now you've got it, and I think I do too.