And that kind of trust would have been foolish, no? Come on. We knew better. We had just thrown our critical thinking in the garbage. Maybe some of us were on the beam, but ALL of us missed the beam when it counted. The cheating was just evidence of how rotten we had become.
This is the hard part about being a nation. We (you and me) have to be willing to own the mistakes of the nation as a whole before we can hope to correct them. "But...but...it wasn't our fault!" So fucking what? Are we going to fix the problems or not? It doesn't have anything to do with fault-finding, but with problem-fixing.
And that kind of trust would have been foolish, no? Come on. We knew better. We had just thrown our critical thinking in the garbage. Maybe some of us were on the beam, but ALL of us missed the beam when it counted. The cheating was just evidence of how rotten we had become.
This is the hard part about being a nation. We (you and me) have to be willing to own the mistakes of the nation as a whole before we can hope to correct them. "But...but...it wasn't our fault!" So fucking what? Are we going to fix the problems or not? It doesn't have anything to do with fault-finding, but with problem-fixing.