10.07.07
Those Are Some Creepy Kids
Democracy in a Chinese classroom
Those of you that know me personally are probably well aware of my ambivalence toward children. (Yeah, I said it - I don’t like kids; take that, social convention). My horror at this article, however, has nothing (well, little) to do with that.
After all, it’s not the intrinsic qualities of the kids profiled in the piece that make them such conniving little bastards, but rather the system that makes everyone want to be a corrupt bureaucrat. It’s not a long piece, so I’ll just suggest you read about the little would-be apparatchiks rather than reading my recap.