It is amazing…truly amazing. Simply incredible, the way there are so many people in the world who have so much crap to say. So many things that don’t make sense, and if they do, then it’s not worth the trouble to know about them.
And even more amazing that so much of all the useless stuff in the wolrd, written in incomprehensible language by useless people, is all concentrated into my Intro to Philosophy reading package.
Tell me, somebody, when teachers work their asses off to make us write concisely and make our essays not only good, but easy for another to read and be impressed—tell me, why WHY, can’t people like Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill write that way? Can’s brilliant ideas be expressed, if not in simple words, then at least in whole sentences? Every other sentence they write trails off like this…Also, every sentence is not a sentence, but a whole paragraph. This is just not good writing, either grammatically or structurally—so how can they expect us to take an interest in their bloody articles?
I was forced to take this subject, and I’ll always hold the administration responsible for those wasted hours that I spent reading the articles which contradicted themselves, went around in circles, and in the end, had no impact on me whatsoever. I thought it would be interesting, like it was in ‘Sophie’s World’ (Interesting book btw, u should read it). But its nothing about the old philosophers at all…it’s just…nonsense, complete nonsense.
And the sexism in them! One philosopher says that ‘Man is rational and women is emotional, hence only man is human as rationality is a human attribute’, and another says that ‘one should not go near a woman without taking a whip, as women must be kept in their place’. Yep, all the male bastards in the class love it…I’d like to claw out their mocking eyes.
The worst thing of all is that I’m actually getting good marks in it, thanks to the relative grading system…everything is open-book, open-notes and selective reading is my specialty, so it’s going well, but I HATE IT!!
Another bit of good news is that my finals are starting from the 19th and I’ve studied nothing…no philosophy, anthropology, Pak. studies(another idiotic unwanted course), or macroeconomics…all I want to do is just relax and watch American Idol, God, please, why do You make my life so frustrating???
*sigh* I was supposed to be working on my anthropology presentation right now, but its good to get ur whining out in blogging…might as well post this.
