Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Sad, so very sad
...and yet it just might work. Please, God, don't let it work...
Kerry and Bush are pretty evenly tied in the polls, so CBS and the New York Times have once again resorted to lying to the public to engineer an "October surprise".
The sheer amount of dishonesty coming from the main-stream media these days never ceases to amaze me. And people wonder why I get all my news from the Internet these days...
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Kerry and Bush are pretty evenly tied in the polls, so CBS and the New York Times have once again resorted to lying to the public to engineer an "October surprise".
The sheer amount of dishonesty coming from the main-stream media these days never ceases to amaze me. And people wonder why I get all my news from the Internet these days...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
I suck at thinking up titles
Looking back on this semester, I've learned three main things in my "Build Your Own Utopia" class.
Firstly, it's helped me understand the process of clearly defining a problem in our society and logically considering possible solutions for it. Our last group project: a commune of free love hippies has suddenly found that free love isn't all it's cut out to be. They have WAY to many children and chaos rules. But they refuse to even consider adopted a traditional nuclear family structure. What solution would we recommend?
This has also taught me the value of real-world experimentation. After all, each one of these utopias sounds wonderful on paper, but I'm sure if anyone ever tried them in real life they wouldn't work worth a straw. Not that that reminds me of any theoretical utopia (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) that looks wonderful on paper (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) since it emphasizes untiy and selflessness (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) but in the real world works like crap (::cough:: Communism ::cough).
But the most important thing I've learned this semester?
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Grrr.
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Firstly, it's helped me understand the process of clearly defining a problem in our society and logically considering possible solutions for it. Our last group project: a commune of free love hippies has suddenly found that free love isn't all it's cut out to be. They have WAY to many children and chaos rules. But they refuse to even consider adopted a traditional nuclear family structure. What solution would we recommend?
This has also taught me the value of real-world experimentation. After all, each one of these utopias sounds wonderful on paper, but I'm sure if anyone ever tried them in real life they wouldn't work worth a straw. Not that that reminds me of any theoretical utopia (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) that looks wonderful on paper (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) since it emphasizes untiy and selflessness (::cough:: Communism ::cough::) but in the real world works like crap (::cough:: Communism ::cough).
But the most important thing I've learned this semester?
- I HATE GROUP PROJECTS
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Grrr.
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