50 years ago, as I approached a certain age, the schools would show a series of dreadful movies to us soon-to-be drivers. Movies with bloody shattered windshields, scalps plastered to dashboards, and in one case a bloody boulder sitting in a shattered driver's seat. The message: as you drive into the world, don't wind up like these poor children.
The photos of these "transformed" young women tell the same story: please do not destroy all the gifts you have been given.
I remember those movies. The one where the kids rocked the school bus back and forth and a pocket knife went flying through the air impaling a random kid terrified me. I never felt safe on the big cheese-box after that.
I learned to drive in 2004, and they showed videos of the gory aftermath of high-speed car crashes. I vividly remember seeing brains smeared all over pavement in one clip. It freaked me the fuck out, and definitely got me to appreciate my own mortality, and how fragile the body is. I've paid attention on the road since.
Don't know what they show kids today. Teletubbies bouncing around in a bouncy castle?
What I found a bit strange though, was that the teachers started complaining when kids started looking up gruesome images of mutilated dead people on the school computers. If it's bad for kids to look at that kind of stuff, why did they show that kind of stuff to the all of the kids in the first place?
50 years ago, as I approached a certain age, the schools would show a series of dreadful movies to us soon-to-be drivers. Movies with bloody shattered windshields, scalps plastered to dashboards, and in one case a bloody boulder sitting in a shattered driver's seat. The message: as you drive into the world, don't wind up like these poor children.
The photos of these "transformed" young women tell the same story: please do not destroy all the gifts you have been given.
I remember those movies. The one where the kids rocked the school bus back and forth and a pocket knife went flying through the air impaling a random kid terrified me. I never felt safe on the big cheese-box after that.
I learned to drive in 2004, and they showed videos of the gory aftermath of high-speed car crashes. I vividly remember seeing brains smeared all over pavement in one clip. It freaked me the fuck out, and definitely got me to appreciate my own mortality, and how fragile the body is. I've paid attention on the road since.
Don't know what they show kids today. Teletubbies bouncing around in a bouncy castle?
I remember those films in high school.
What I found a bit strange though, was that the teachers started complaining when kids started looking up gruesome images of mutilated dead people on the school computers. If it's bad for kids to look at that kind of stuff, why did they show that kind of stuff to the all of the kids in the first place?
Spot on.