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what kind of society has revolution as just another cliche of pop culture?
what do you do when everything has been tried, and society has failed for them all?
do you join the little clique of revolutionaries or the little clique of anarchists or the little clique of chaos-mongers?
little societies of themselves.
inescapable, this control.
i have an answer for that... in a situation as that.. forget revolutions, forget society, forget groups.. forget what's been tried and forget what has to be...
Sit in front of your computer log on to litnet and see your post count increasing...
Anybody read Watership Down? A band of rabbits search for a new home after their previous warren is destroyed. A classic retelling of the Hero's tale, only with rabbits.
In one part, the travelers come across another warren filled with large, magnificent rabbits. Only these rabbits seem a bit strange. They are incurious to the point of complacency. They have forgotten the old tales. They have no use for tricks or cunning. And the most curious thing of all: rabbits sometimes disappeared. Whenever that happened, when a rabbit would simply vanish from the warren, the other rabbits were not allowed to ask where that rabbit was or what might have happened to him; they simply acted as though that rabbit had never existed.
Interesting book.
Yeah, I've read that book. I liked it a lot. An easy read, deep as you want to make it.
What to think is a question that I've been thinking of without being aware that that involeves the same process of reflecting on the same question.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present!
its on the fringes you find the interesting things, the interesting people, and the interesting places.
When you talk too much, you talk nonsense...
Yeah!!! I found my Grocery Store Card!!! I thought I lost it and put the small one on my key chain which I hated to do but now I found the big one so off with the small one.
"I know a boy of your age that was intent on reading through the whole Spengler. He did. And he went mad." - Writer Banev from "Ugly Swans" by Strugatski.
Well, we are just reading a short book about a hundred pages long what you could call a summary, but you can never be too sure, so check us about after a week in MSN or so to see if we have lost our marbles or not. :p
Some thoughts to ponder (of the average person, of course, and depending on one's learning style - visual, audio, kinesthetic, tactile, etc.):
You learn . . .
10% of what you read,
20% of what you hear,
30% of what you see,
50% of what you see and hear,
70% of what you discuss,
80% of what you experience,
95% of what you teach.
i don't know if the percentages are true, but I do know that I never really understood Algebra and Calculus until I started teaching it.
Come to think of it, I didn't understand Geometry until then...
You'd be talking about something like factoring and they'ed sit there and ask why until you reduced it down to the commutative property or something like that, and then they'd say, "oh."
and then you'd see how it was all built together, almost like taking apart an electric drill.
All I know when I take apart an electric drill is that it'll never function properly again :lol:
One teacher to another:
"I don't understand how my students can be so stupid. I explain them the subject for the first time - they don't understand. I explain for second time - and they still don't understand. I explain them for third time and i already start to understand it, but they still don't!"
How do I get into these perdicaments? My boss asked if I would consider moving my office. Why, might you ask? Because the newly promoted guy wants it. Do I give it up and keep the peace or keep my office and perhaps be the target of the new guys grudge?