Free Princess In Training by Meg Cabot

GOVERNMENT (con’t)
    SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY: Thomas Hobbes, 17th-century English philosopher, wrote
    
     Leviathan, stating that:
     
    Humans originally existed in a “state of nature.”
    In other words, ANARCHY.
     
    But anarchy is bad! With anarchy, people can just do whatever they want! With anarchy, for instance, a certain cheerleader, who shall remain nameless, could wear a pair of shorts that clearly belong to a member of the men’s soccer team under the skirt of her school uniform and make sure everyone notices that she’s wearing them by crossing and uncrossing her legs in a very athletic and flamboyant way during her U.S. Government class, as she might be doing RIGHT NOW in flagrant defiance of school regulations. And a certain other person, who shall remain nameless, might feel like telling on her, but will ultimately decide not to, because tattling is wrong unless someone’s life is at stake.
     
    Hobbes maintained that the original contract between people and state was final, resulting in state’s absolutism.
     
    Fortunately John Locke modified the theory to say that the contract could be renegotiated.
    GO JOHN LOCKE!
    GO JOHN LOCKE!
    GO GO
    GO JOHN LOCKE!
    Wednesday, September 9, Earth Science
    Kenny just leaned over to me to remind me that he has a new girlfriend, Heather, whom he met at science camp this summer. Apparently, Heather is superior to me in every way (straight A’s, does gymnastics, doesn’t employ slapstick humor or popular culture references in her expositional essays, isn’t a princess, etc.), so despite what I might think, Kenny is completely over me, and that I can go around flashing my big baby blue eyes at him all I want, it won’t make any difference, he is NOT going to do my Earth Science homework for me this semester.
    Whatever, Kenny. First of all, get your prescription checked: my eyes are gray, not blue. Second of all, I never asked you to do my Bio homework for me last year. You just started doing it on your own. I’ll admit it was wrong of me to LET you, seeing as how I knew I didn’t exactly like you in the same way you liked me. But rest assured that’s not going to happen again. Because I’m fully going to pay attention in class and do my OWN work. I won’t even NEED your help.
    And I sincerely hope you and Heather will be happy together. Your children will probably be very very smart. In the event that you two end up Doing It, I mean. And forget to use birth control. Although that is highly unlikely in the case of two science whizzes.
    Kenny is so weird.
    No, you know what? Boys are weird. Seriously. Maybe that’s what I should write my makeup paper for Ms. Martinez on. Boys and how weird they are.
    For instance, my current top five favorite movies include:
    Dirty Dancing
    Flashdance
    Bring It On
    The original Star Wars, and
    Honey
    all of which have a similar theme—girl must use her newly acquired talents (dancing) to save herself/relationship/team (well, okay, this is not the plot of Star Wars so much. Well, it is, but you have to substitute the word “girl” with “boy.” And dancing with the Force).
    So, you can see why I like them so much.
    But Michael’s top five movies—not including the original Star Wars, of course—are totally different from mine. There is no single underlying theme to them at all! They’re all over the place, themewise! And most of them, I don’t even know WHY he likes them. There is not even any dancing in them.
    Here is a glimpse into the Weird World of Boys and the Movies They Like:
    TOP FIVE MOVIES MICHAEL LIKES
    (NONE OF WHICH I HAVE SEEN,
    OR EVER WILL):
     
    The Godfather
    
    
    
    
    
     Scarface
    
    
    
    
    
     Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    
    
    
    
    
     Alien
    
     , Aliens, Alien Resurrection, etc.
    
    
     The Exorcist
    TOP FIVE MOVIES MICHAEL LIKES (THAT I HAVE SEEN, NOT INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS, OF COURSE):
     
    Office Space
    
    
    
    
    
     The Substitute
    
    
    
    
    
     The Fifth Element