Sex Education? Or High Education?

Met a young lady the other night who said she offered courses in "sex education" in England - and confessed that it was the best job she ever had. I was a little high, and when I am like that I like to fool around. So I kidded her about the usefulness of her course. I said most Indians are illiterate and yet manage to reproduce without any education whatsoever. Basic instincts come into play here. And these instincts work.

On the other hand, I said, a kind of education I feel most Indians - especially the youth - need really bad is "high education": that is, on how to get high safely and healthily. An academy for the purpose would be really useful - and our youth could learn about highs like cannabis, alcohol, cocaine, magic mushrooms and all the various synthetics. They could then choose - and choose wisely. Today, they are totally ignorant - and many make big mistakes. Entire lives are ruined because of these mistakes.

Of course, our The State cannot be allowed to provide our youth with high education. Because of this The State, a completely safe and healthy high like ganja is outlawed, while  hard liquor has been given free rein. India is not a nation of beer and wine drinkers; she is a nation of hard drinkers. Further, there are so many extremely dangerous highs on offer - in the form of tablets and other chemicals.

Knowledge about getting high is a very important kind of knowledge - and this needs to be imparted to the youth, lest they learn all the wrong things from ignorants among their peers. I have met so many who have ruined themselves with bad stuff like smack. And alcohol. And tablets.

If such a course on high education is ever offered by people who really know about these things, it will surely become obvious to the youth that ganja-charas are the best. These are not physically addictive. These are the best highs of the morning - unlike alcohol.

Mr. Morrison might have woken up in the morning and got himself a beer.

But a wise student of the High Academy will surely wake up and reach for a spliff.

Boom Shankar!