Thursday, February 11, 2010

Independence

On these sacred documents in which Providence has rightly blessed, we declare one thing: a renewed and reaffirmed vivification without the curling webs of secondary education to squander precious time.

It is only just and right to rectify that time spent in a morning’s precarious beginnings. Drugged from warm cloths and pompous pillows, our youths have again and again subjected themselves to the injustices of early morns coupled with exacting education. In those hours whence sleep is most required, our youths are wronged, kept languor and listless, longing for nothing more than a few deserved hours rest. Is it such a sin to bring salvation to these children from their time oft demanded in the doldrums of mathematics and pop quizzes?

Nay! For what man, woman, or child does not long for a minute more of comfort and warmth before partaking in the day-to-day delirium these early mornings hath wrought? Nay, not one could rightly raise his hand and exclaim his love for this monstrous monotony without betraying truth. Not one could sing praises to those who built the temple of tedious testing before ten in the morning. Not one could honestly deny the promise, the peace, the purity of two hours more sleep. Not one.

But the asinine and extreme declare that the zombie-like appearance of our youth are for the good of all. Blasphemous, they ignore how they have become the profiler to our youth, cutting them into ‘perfect’ form, ready to mold our children into ashen-faced employers of a future none are certain of. Those in power, forgoing the health of the many for the prosperity of the few, ought to pry away from beloved beds at the shrill shriek of an alarm clock before casting damnation upon our youth.

So again, there is none we are more certain of than the Declaration of Independence from the pagan capitalistic worshipping of days begun too soon for too little. It is our Honor, our Duty, our Promise to edify the very foundations of our days before they are nothing more than the ghosts of hope.

5 comments:

  1. Wow, Stefanie, I loved this. You used words that I've never even heard of. I do beleive that I have never read anything like this written by someone who isn't dead. I think we should all declare our independence from the buzz of alarm clocks and finally get some sleep. Nobody will argue with you on that!
    -Elise
    PS: Elise and I had a lot of fun playing with your fish. It's fun to put the food in the corner and watch them all hit each other. You rule. So do your fish. -Taylor

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  2. I am zombie, obviously. That, or I spend too much time with funky smelling books that predate my life by about 100 years. Yeah, probably not the second...

    Anyhoo, thanks for the comment, which I think has a compliment in there somewhere, haha. But, yes, join me in my crusade to end our alarm-dictated days. :D There will be cookies. And freedom.

    And thanks to Taylor too, from me and my fishies.

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  4. My comment is definitely a compliment: you put my tired, passive-aggressive declaration to shame. Although you didn't adhere strictly to the form of the original DoI, you wrote with admirable grandiloquence. I liked the alliteration--significantly present, yet never quite over the top. (Hmm...I'm starting to sound like an oenophile, not just a logophile.) Anyway, I enjoyed it, and especially liked your choice of words in "Drugged from warm cloths".

    P.S. Thanks for the idea of putting it in the corner--it is indeed amusing.

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  5. I liked this: you incorporated the style, but not the point where it sounded like an annoying Elizabethan TV sitcom. You also managed to sound a lot less emo than mine--wasn't supposed to be, but that's what happened, I guess. Ah well, good writing.

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