"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Saturday, March 9, 2013

A Bully Blow for Victims

Unfortunately bullying of a wide variety is fairly common, much more so than when I was in school.  This Ted Talk by a talented poet named Shane Koyczan is very unusual, but oddly inspirational (I hope) to those who are victims of this particularly nasty crime against the young and impressionable, usually committed by their peers.  In a short space of just over 12 minutes it goes from comedy to thought-provoking pathos, the spoken-word poem backed by images from artists around the world, and some beautiful but very subtle and effective violin accents from Hannah Epperson.

 

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