Archie
05/07/08, 07:08 AM
They have this things in university classes called a 'participation mark' which is basically the mark you get depending on how much you 'participate' during the semester. We have this middle-Eastern teacher who I often have a hard time understanding; mind you I am not racist in any way. Complete with her Hijab, she often stares at me (and others as I have found today) expecting a response when I know my participation mark is well below average due to me having nothing relevant to contribute to an irrelevant class.
I just found another comrade in the class though. I caught him by glance writing in his book that he "can't believe how bored everyone looks." surprisingly while I was writing about how dull, idealistic, hypothetical and out of context the class is. Not only that, simply being in that room's atmosphere is uncomfortable. Contending with a person speaking as English as their second language teaching management to a collection of mostly teenagers is not necessarily fun - that is in my subjective opinion at least.
My sentences then continued - "Pretend to look busy. Pretend to look busy. Pretend to look busy.
The high participation mark recipients would obviously be won the mental masturbators regurgitating the same senseless, sensationalised and subjective nonsensical garbage as ever. But who I am to judge? I'm a non-contributing, reserved and uncritical number in the class.
Walking back from the class I talked to Sebastian about the class and how ridiculous he and I both found it. As he found it I had to agree with him - "you wouldn't turn up if it wasn't graded."
But that's just it right? This is what I've come to realise. Unless you produce your own food, make your own clothes and drive your own cars with your own petrol, you are simply a product of your own environment and have no place protesting your own economic system. Possibly a "by-product of a lifestyle obsession" or possibly a manifestation of money, it really doesn't matter when you can have things both ways, right?
So people go off on their own tangents wearing and displaying their Che Guevara shirts and posters, protest against global warming and advertising without realising that they are just as much a part of the problem they are criticising. Uncritical thinkers spawning more uncritical thinking than they can possibly realise.
They're biting the hand that feeds them. Yes it's good to take a conscious step back and re-assess things, but you can't just stop there: the problem lies within themselves just as much as anything. But they're just as happy to continue living their extravagant (relative of course -- my goodness, how could we in anyway be lucky?) and bourgeois lifestyle and complain about the very issues that support themselves. Of course it is richer peoples' fault. They sit there in their little skyboxes with their little thinking caps looking down on the senseless world they haven't seen and claim that that is the status quo - nothing more through conveniently provided devices such as the Internet to make rants just as I have.
Trivial online knowledge about issues concerning mostly themselves that only another senseless fool would bother wading through, mostly in the form of surveys which have been carefully sculptured and attributed to boredom. So continue your idealism and drawing yours scythes and hammers, maybe your circled and rugged A every once in a while; make sure you do it somewhere noticeable, like the back of your school books or on the back of a writing pad somewhere.
Whatever it is they want - capitalism without the isms, rejection of the senseless and mindless dissociation with one another through excessive consumption and advertising; maybe it's the cost of living that gets them riled up. A scapegoat is quickly pointed to just like the created wants so readily made for them by the very system they despise.
Made me lol so hard.
He has no idea what he is talking about, or the meanings of the big words he uses.
Thoughts?
I just found another comrade in the class though. I caught him by glance writing in his book that he "can't believe how bored everyone looks." surprisingly while I was writing about how dull, idealistic, hypothetical and out of context the class is. Not only that, simply being in that room's atmosphere is uncomfortable. Contending with a person speaking as English as their second language teaching management to a collection of mostly teenagers is not necessarily fun - that is in my subjective opinion at least.
My sentences then continued - "Pretend to look busy. Pretend to look busy. Pretend to look busy.
The high participation mark recipients would obviously be won the mental masturbators regurgitating the same senseless, sensationalised and subjective nonsensical garbage as ever. But who I am to judge? I'm a non-contributing, reserved and uncritical number in the class.
Walking back from the class I talked to Sebastian about the class and how ridiculous he and I both found it. As he found it I had to agree with him - "you wouldn't turn up if it wasn't graded."
But that's just it right? This is what I've come to realise. Unless you produce your own food, make your own clothes and drive your own cars with your own petrol, you are simply a product of your own environment and have no place protesting your own economic system. Possibly a "by-product of a lifestyle obsession" or possibly a manifestation of money, it really doesn't matter when you can have things both ways, right?
So people go off on their own tangents wearing and displaying their Che Guevara shirts and posters, protest against global warming and advertising without realising that they are just as much a part of the problem they are criticising. Uncritical thinkers spawning more uncritical thinking than they can possibly realise.
They're biting the hand that feeds them. Yes it's good to take a conscious step back and re-assess things, but you can't just stop there: the problem lies within themselves just as much as anything. But they're just as happy to continue living their extravagant (relative of course -- my goodness, how could we in anyway be lucky?) and bourgeois lifestyle and complain about the very issues that support themselves. Of course it is richer peoples' fault. They sit there in their little skyboxes with their little thinking caps looking down on the senseless world they haven't seen and claim that that is the status quo - nothing more through conveniently provided devices such as the Internet to make rants just as I have.
Trivial online knowledge about issues concerning mostly themselves that only another senseless fool would bother wading through, mostly in the form of surveys which have been carefully sculptured and attributed to boredom. So continue your idealism and drawing yours scythes and hammers, maybe your circled and rugged A every once in a while; make sure you do it somewhere noticeable, like the back of your school books or on the back of a writing pad somewhere.
Whatever it is they want - capitalism without the isms, rejection of the senseless and mindless dissociation with one another through excessive consumption and advertising; maybe it's the cost of living that gets them riled up. A scapegoat is quickly pointed to just like the created wants so readily made for them by the very system they despise.
Made me lol so hard.
He has no idea what he is talking about, or the meanings of the big words he uses.
Thoughts?