On Today's Events

I saw the universe without its make-up on. A grey, colourless, cold day – the kind of day we’ll be seeing a lot more often after the rock we’re on dies. No revelations, no magic – the kind of day that makes those all the more important. But not quite, because even when the universe shows itself, we miss it sometimes.

I felt like I didn’t do something of tantamount importance.

So of course I’m going to write down whatever thought comes to mind.

The prof, who hasn’t spoken to me since what I shall call “The Hitler Incident”, tells me that it must be uncomfortable, using the computer on this seat.

I have used this seat for a long time.

“The narrative of the tsunami” – My prof used the tsunami that killed 150 000 people as a way to compare post-modern and modern literature. Modern literature was more focused on the overall story, as the initial media reports made it out to be. Post-modern literature was more focused on the individual stories, as current media reports are.

She did not criticize herself, or have qualms about using a tragic natural event to make her point about fiction.

Later on, she critiqued CNN (She didn't enjoy watching it, being a Feminist). She critiqued CNN for saying about the tsunami, “Sorry for bringing you this troubling news, but we hope you enjoyed it.”

As in, the coverage. So it's wrong to use coverage of a tragic event to make an abstract point for your own ends, but it's wrong to apologize for having to bring someone tragic news and then springing off that to use your own point?

We talked about this frenchman who defined Postmodernism, last name goes by-a Lyotard. Tard said that there’s no original idea. But I like to think of Hong Kong action movies. There are clichés in Hong Kong action movies used to death. But it’s a new to us.

“Different things are infiltrating the culture” was her word. It was about anti-Feminist ideas, or something.

You know, I can easily imagine a Klansmen using that phrasing. Funny, isn't it? Most liberals and intellectuals (and I hate to use that term in the Bill O'Reilly sense of the world) express an openness of culture and a kind of moral pluralism, yet express xenophobia when those things don't appeal to THEIR morality, which they see as morality.

The sad thing about culture is that it truly is open. And most have sold out to the bland.

The greatest threat to a refined culture is apathy.

But hey, we're free, right?Doesn't mean that human society'd pick the smarter, more refined culture.

But that's life, baby. So go out and eat at McDonald's.