The Medieval Age: Europe’s darkest hour. Rampant poverty, petty conflict, religious fanaticism, brutal torture, and horses. Such attributes may also be assigned to DGS.
First and most obviously, the horses. DGS’ own mascot is a horse; Marty the Mustang must obviously have a long and complicated bloodline of selective breeding to cut such a muscular figure and be bipedal. It’s witchcraft and heresy, embedded into his blood by his mother and father.
Secondly, the brutal torture; Europe stretched supposed witches and wizards until they were reduced to noodles and other times they locked criminals and chucked food at them. DGS has a similar history: seniors used to chuck pennies and bags of coins at freshmen and I’m sure there are a couple of covered up noodle people on the DGS property. Psychologically, DGS’ boys locker rooms beats any medieval torture into the ground with how animalistic they can be.
Religious fanaticism in medieval Europe was characterized by the suffocating grip the Catholic Church had on everyone. Religious fanaticism in DGS is characterized by heresy- instead of “get on your knees and pray to Jesus” it is “get on your knees and pray to Marty Mustang.” It’s no longer baptism for the remission of sins in holy water, but baptism for the remission of Z4’s in test retakes.
Medieval Europe’s petty conflict was characterized by the idea that land equals money. Not so coincidentally, DGS has more land than its sister school, Downers Grove North. What this land is for is quite obvious: further use of the land will be done to achieve independence from their king- DGS’ king is Illinois’ governor- and will wage war to legally claim independence in the future as the Netherlands had done with Spain and the United States with England.
Medieval Europe’s peasants were haunted by poverty. They starved and they toiled in long-used lands for meager yields to give to their lords in return for being allowed to live. Similarly, the DGS student population study for years of their life in the hope that they might get into some college through virtue of a couple letters on a piece of paper.
