DREAM # 3

The Classroom of Nothignness

Though that last word is more or less made up, I couldn't find anything better to describe last night's dream, or atleast the only thing I can recall of it.

I had barely any dream experience last night but this one scene that I recall in a classroom, arguing over something someone said about cultures wich went a little like this:

A small asian student in class had said something to the teacher while I was flirting with the girl behind me. The teacher quickly rose to his feet and got all our attention, acting very un-college like by fixing the student and telling him how smart he was for asking the question "What is this culture?"

I immediatly responded by telling him how I found that question absolutly idiotic and even more so racist:

The fact that you ask "what is this culture" indicates to me that you don't agree with some of our ideals, comming from another country where your so called "culture" is different, I can understand that. But saying such a thing only brings us all down in a way that you're only looking to divide us, "categorize" us, through ways that are inhuman, african americans with african americans, asians with asians, hispanics with hispanics, caucasians with caucasians. I found it even more silly when he mentioned that the sub-culture found around here, of dividing people based on their personality is even more ridiculous; "players", "jocks", "druggies", etc.

I continued to rant and eventually got the entire class to go along with me, after wich the teacher sat down as though blown away and said that I just completed his class and he was impressed at how smart I was, to which I responded that calling me smart is an insult to intelligence in the first place, and how I was no smarter than anyone in class, and that generalising intelligence is about the stupidest thing you can do, since the only that should really be divided in life, is not culture, but intelligence. Strengths in Mechanics, in Emotions, in Theatre, in Arts. Intellgence varies from person to person and is stronger in some areas than others, it's as simple as that.

That's all I can recall from the "short-long" argument. The dream lasted barely a few seconds, but it seemed as though it went on for much longer than that... I woke up shortly after speaking my mind, feeling at ease; and did a reality check to make sure I wasn't still dreaming. Unfortunatly, I wasn't, and that's all I had to experience in the dream world yesterday night.