WTf happened to my HS friends?!

[bicentennial_baby]

I've added a few on Facebook and...One, a shaved head punk rocker is now a Libertarian, Econ Grad, McCain supporting lawyer, and the other, a purple mohawked kicked-out-of school punk is now a Libertarian, Econ Grad, working for the fucking Heritage Foundation!!

:wtf:

I didn't change, I've always been a radical. Weird that we all went into Econ. But damn, they changed. A lot. I feel like vomiting. The Heritage Foundation?!

x(

[Taverner]

1. Well hey, the College Republicans are wondering what happened to me now!

Funny thing is, deep down, I'm still *really* an Anarchist

[Kutjara]

2. All my Socialist Workers Party friends from college...

...are now corporate lawyers or bankers. I guess, for some, radicalism is just a fashion trend they pass through on the way to "respectability."

Me, I've never figured out how to be respectable.

[flvegan]

3. Nothing shocks me anymore.

This is why all of my HS friends stopped being my friends a number of years ago.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Bingo.

I went to my 20 year reunion a few years ago, and kept asking myself, "Why am I here?"

With the exception of 3 or 4 people who are super cool, the rest of them had all been born again and talked about Jesus all the freaking time.

San Antonio. Go figure.

[flvegan]

14. I knew 3 years after graduating

having gone "back home" and seeing a good number of these folks that I'd be leaving them behind. I have yet to go to a reunion. Might do my 20th out of pure curiosity. This is MA, so it HAS to be at least sorta liberal-leaning, right? :eyes:

[LeftyMom]

4. I was uptight and really, really Christian in high school.

People grow up. :D

[Kali]

6. omg

:rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[datasuspect]

12. that really explains a lot

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. It seems to me that

being a libertarian econ grad McCain supporting lawyer is even more radical than being a shaved head punk rocker.

It's just which side you're on. If someone is drawn to extremes, they could wind up on either end of the spectrum.

Did you honestly expect everyone to stay the same as they were in high school? Lord, honey, that's just an embryonic stage, the one you have to go through before you find out who you really are.

Check back in twenty years and see who's become what, including you. It's all about change, and that's good.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. I've changed, but not to evil

:shrug:

It's just weird how they've skewed that way...Bizarre even.

PS I graduated 13 years ago...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. You think they're evil?

Well, they might think you're evil, so what's the difference? You don't agree with them, and then brand them evil? Not much room to maneuver in your world, it would seem.

It's hardly weird; as you get older and gain more experience, you'll see that the only constant about change is that it constantly takes place. Anything is possible.

Thirteen years is but a blink. As I said, check back in twenty years and see what outfits everyone's wearing then.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Yes, working for the Heritage Foundation = Evil in my world...

And thanks for the lecture. Really.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. You're quite welcome

It was hardly a lecture. But, your narrow capacity for ideas different from yours is showing, so maybe something will stick. I'm optimistic, because you're young and there's always hope.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Er, I'm 31, I'm not that young...

It's not that I have a narrow capacity for differing ideas, at all. I just have a hard time seeing how my formerly freethinking friends became McCain supporters/Heritage Foundation employees.

Am I still on DU?

[JVS]

8. Selling out is fun and lucrative

[AlCzervik]

9. i'm still best friends with my high school best friend but with many others we just

grew apart and don't really have much in common anymore. Most of my hs friends never left Medford (not that anything is wrong with that) and never understood how i could leave home.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Dunno, but from that small sample it looks like you're the outlier.

Libertarian -- that means they still smoke pot, right?

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Weird.

I avoided economics like the plague after my intro courses, but higher education has pulled me even further to the left than I had been.

[OmahaBlueDog]

15. Ditto

I wrote a thread about this over a month ago. A good friend from HS is now a libertarian, no-government, "destroy the nanny state" guy.

Scary fact: many of these folks supported Ron Paul, and many of these folks will shape the future of the GOP.

[Left Is Write]

16. Most of my high school friends got old.

I have no idea how that happened.

[sasquatch]

19. The same thing that happened to Boomers

They saw the money and sold out not only themselves but everyone else.

[Critters2]

20. It is possible to read too much Friedman.

Makes you all twisted inside.

[bicentennial_baby]

26. Now that's a good point...

the Friedman force is strong...unless you can resist it.

[amitten]

21. Sounds like you need to re-educate them.... n/t

[otherlander]

22. He who fucks nuns

will later join the church.

[XemaSab]

23. All my high school friends are whores and crack addicts

:shrug:

[NNN0LHI]

30. With few exceptions dead or in the jail for mine

[tigereye]

27. well, if it's any consolation, not all ex-punks become libertarians...

:scared:

Most of my old punk buddies are still pretty progressive, but one writes for the Tribune Review. (the one owned by Scaife.) What are ya gonna do? And a few are lawyers, but still Dems.

[bicentennial_baby]

28. Yeah, it's mainly the McCain supporting/Heritage Foundation

that I'm taking issue with. I have wonderful lawyer friends who are great progressives.

In fact, it was the Heritage Foundation that put me over the edge...I mean, :wtf:

:hi:

[WCGreen]

29. Out of my circle of friends....

I am the only democrat...