Just another brick in the wall

What infuriated me today was the fact that children are starting to acquire the habit of lying as an inherent function of life. The point is: where are they learning all this from? Their parents, who make false promises and never delivering them? Or their school teachers, who'll forget all the fun activities when it comes to exams? Or their friends, who con them of their colourful trading cards? Or the TV, with its myriad of blasphemies splayed on 42-inch plasma screens? I do admit to the occassional lie when I was of that young and ignorant age; those trips to the mama shops for Twisties, spending my week's pocket money on Pokemon stickers... But everything paled in comparison to what I have been dealing with in my years of tutoring. To watch seemingly sticky-sweet children lie through their teeth drove stakes into me; what exactly is going on with the world today? "I'm afraid of having kids, because I'm terrified by the very fact that they might turn out this way and very much in doubt of myself for having the strength to pull them away from such behavior," I told Jack.