random philosophical ramblings

The only interesting thing I heard all day:
My English teacher told us he is sort of curving the semester test next week. He will take the highest score and raise it to 100% and then raise everyone else's score proportionally. He told us that every year someone talks about all conspiring to do badly on the test so everyone would get a 100%, but he said that never works because people are too afraid for their grades. Imagine if one person got a 97% and everyone else got a 40%.
I think it's a fascinating concept, that in our effort to get good grades we are elimating, with our misanthropy, our only chance of all doing perfectly. We are too mistrusting. Our fear of failure is the main reason to form a union, and yet this fear of failure, paradoxically, is also the main reason that union will never form. We are so concerned about our individual welfare that we would never take a risk for the community. We are so cynical of people that we would never dare to trust in a scheme like that.
I wouldn't. I would be too paranoid of that one person that could ruin everything. So paranoid that I would become that person.

It is interesting to think about, our lack of faith in each other, and how through it we can never achieve what it is that we most want.