Tom from Dick or Harry. The suppression does not stop there. Outside social interaction disappears with such exclusive membership, as members limit their social interaction to, well, other members. Who else would understand the big zit that erupted on your forehead this morning? Or who else could you talk about skateboarding with? Definitely not the kid over there with the taped-up glasses. Everyone else outside the clique is met with a chilly reception. A stare that is frigid enough to freeze corpses in a mortuary. Such close-mindedness is widespread among the various gangs. The alienation of different people has begun. In concealing individuality and practically every other flag of identity, the maze of cliques may allow troubled kids who have fallen in between the cracks, to mask their loneliness and dissatisfaction. On the same note, these kids who feel that wave of powerlessness and rejection from social circles are more apt to do the horrible things that humanity drops its mouth open at. Driven to the point of insanity after being mercilessly taunted, humiliated, harassed and degraded every single day, it takes just one more little spark to set it all off. After all, human beings are not wired for abuse. After the Columbine shooting, it has become apparent to society that in a snap, social lives can be ravagely twisted into a crumpled matter of life and death. Eric and Dylan rose from their former humiliation and turned the tables on those who ostracized them. The malicious members of the irked tribes have fallen. Following the April 20 tragedy, there came a long string of copycat threats in various middle and high schools across North America. To the culprits of these threats, Eric and Dylan are essentially heroes worthy of their resp...
