Inaugural blog of self-importance

Hello everyone and welcome to my self-important waste of time, energy and yadda, yadda, yadda...

My name is [edited for content] and I teach honors civcs & economics and physical science to 8th graders in Richmond, VA. I am a relatively new caveman, and, as such, am dealing with the loads of all that entails; talking trees being the least of my worries! I have struggled as a middle/high school teacher over the years as I struggled to figure out, "just who the hell am I and why do I feel like there's two animals inside me beating the shit out of each other?" Many of my students over the years felt that I was full of shit, just like the rest of their teachers, and, for the most part, I was.

Luckily for them and for me, however, that has changed.

Over the last few years, I have learned much and, I am working on what the Zen teachings dictate; that, in this life, we must all kill three things. First, we must "kill" our parents. Second, we must "kill" our religion. And, lastly, we must "kill" our teacher. I have become a gleeful participant in the dismantling of my belief systems.

Long story short, I have evolved from fat, lazy, McDonald's-munching, consumero-christian Republican to a modern primitive (caveman, if you will), who is re-learning what it truly means to be human.

I spent most of the last year developing and have just finished my first full year of teaching an anarchoprimitivist, anticivilizationalist curriculum that I developed. It was an immense success, with LOTS of room for improvement.

I now have no less than 20-30 students who want to tear down civilization brick by brick. Most likely, of the 90+ students I taught this past year, most, if not all of them now accept that civilization is a cancer on the earth.

Is it true that Mr. Durden is building an army? Yes, and my class is where you can sign up.