Posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2015, at 21:52:03
In reply to Re: realisation..., posted by alexandra_k on April 2, 2015, at 14:28:13
I don't actually know if any of the family history stuff is true. Could just be family legend. Who knows. I do remember being surprised to learn that he studied philosophy, though... Learned that at his funeral. When I was a couple years into my undergraduate degree. He definitely came up to this city to study... And back then this pretty much was the university... But I suppose there might have been some theology college or something...
Anyway... I don't suppose he was imprisoned for harbouring those people. I suspect there was a lot more to it than that. Something... Something... Probably something about there being a matter of principle involved. Same for my uncle, I guess. The message may have been good but the process left a lot to be desired. And who knows... He could have been persuading other people to be off breaking into peoples houses, too. I mean... There are ways of getting out of being drafted. I would suppose. A matter of... FInding a sympathetic doctor. Which might be easier said than done, for sure. Cutting off your thumb. Having flat feet. Something...
Anyway... Again... Realisation of why it is so very important to me to do this. So I don't become... Like them. LIke my mother... Who is plenty smart (when it suits her, it seems)... But who lacks focus, generally.
Part of it is about learning... Structured learning experiences. Targets just out of reach that are achievable...
Anyway... Focus... Two weeks to study for the next round of assessment (biosci and chem)... They really do seem to be encouraging us to be thinking around / about the stuff that we are learning rather than just memorising. Which is terrific. I am reading the text... All the lecturers were terrific. Even the guy I was cranky about... The plan thing turned out to be useful in the test for organising the data and figuring out what was relevant.
And I need to go take a picture of a tree...
I... Thought I was over the whole black and white thinking thing... Really.. Totally and completely over it lol. Past the whole bad and good thing of childhood... I realise that I'm used to thinking of managers as bad... And business people... Rich business people as being exploitative / profiteering... And Politicians as hypocrits who go about in a party bus until they are elected and then go about in limosenes...
But I think it is about complacency. People see what seems to be an opportunity. And so they do something with it. Whether it is seeing a lake or orbital altitude or south pacific trench to dump your rubbish into or cutting down a tree to make good furniture or whatever. And nobody stops them so... It must be alright. Because if it was bad... People would make you stop - right? Get an injunction, or something.
They aren't crowding us into buses so much as letting people crowd themselves into buses. There are possibly little (intentional?) manipulations that they do... LIke having a bus run really late which instills fear that if people don't jump on then they will be very late... But nobody is using a taser to get people on... Nobody is holding a gun to anybodies head. All they have to do is open the door. And people get on. And more people get on. And even when there isn't really any more room on the bus people will squash on at the front. And you don't leave until 5 minutes late just to see... Because there is a crowd outside who don't get on... But the odd person will arrive and squash themselves on. And people will sit in the bag carriers. Nobody needs to hold a gun to their head.
And you just stand outside and watch them... And think that public transport must be for the very poor indeed.... The poor slobs who don't even realise the effect that such crowding has on their nervous system.s And whatever you do you have to have to have to have to must make more money then them. So you can get yourself a nice big car and afford to pay for public parking at the building that incentivises people for contributing to the peak hour rush... The existence of which... Means there is more pressure for more buildings (where the buildings are shut up no entry allowed for more than half the hours) and more roads (where the roads are only overflowing during peak hours)...
But nobody notices... Nobody complains... Nobody does anything. So... Investing in buildings and carparks. Because... Well... One day the earth will be too toxic for us to be exposed to the elements at any rate.
It is called 'planning for the future' or... 'thinking forwards' or... Something.
The city makes everyone sick.
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