“We can’t joke about things or take things lightly anymore.”
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm by Chad (Chad's Blog)
How bleak a quote is that? Depressing, huh? It gets worse. You know who said it? Mary Ann Simpson. Sad that a person actually get quoted saying something so horrible. She said it while acting as spokesperson for Fort Bend ISD. That’s “Independent School District.” See, it turns out that there was this 17 year old kid, really smart, about to graduate high school. He really likes video games, particularly Counter Strike. He used tools to create a video game level that was modeled on his high school. In our grief over the Virgina Tech incident, we’ve now sent this kid to alternative school and jeopardized his future because his creative outlet wasn’t writing sonnets. His creative outlet was taking something real and turning it into a virtual playground. And Mary Ann defended this action by saying humor was dead.
Mary Ann, you live in a desert land with no hope of the cool waters of happiness, but don’t condemn the rest of us, or even one of us, to walk those dusty dunes. I vow to joke about all things and take absolutely nothing too seriously. Especially video game levels, especially created by 17 year olds.
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