Idaho bill requires Atlas Shrugged to graduate highschool
The bill sponsor claims its just a symbolic statement, but
this strikes me as public officials promoting their own ideology. This book might promote his political views but what about the views of the other people he represents? And what happens when one of these symbolic statements "accidentally" passes? I'm the first guy to say people should have fun at their job. But our country isnt mature enough for symbols and statements yet.
When asked by state Sen. Bob Nonini why he chose that particular book,
Goedde reportedly replied to laughter before the state’s Senate
Education Committee: “That book made my son a Republican.”
Quotes
At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.
-James Bolivar DiGriz
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