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| 04.03.04 (12:20 pm) [edit] |
Without permission and solely done as a way to transfer ideas to anyone interested, read the following at your leisure...
To come soon: Literature and Anthropology/Psychohistor y
[u]A Theory of the Size and Shape of Nations[/u]
[url=]http://www.daviddfriedman.com...[/url]
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| 04.03.04 (12:07 pm) [edit] |
I continue my quest for a way to go to graduate school.
As I stated before in my rather verbose and confusing introduction, what is of primary interest to me is understanding how people understand, and consequently meeting individuals focused on the same pursuit.
It's tough to do this when you work a 9-5 doing some sort of nonsense to pay your bills and your fill your belly. Life could be worse. I am lucky to have so many inherent advantages that others do not. Sometimes you get stuck in the mire of your own self pity... blah blah blah.
I am growing old strangers. Old and wise? Old and stupid? Yes.
I work in a job where I am faced, on a daily basis, with the sad truth about the world. People are afraid. They are sad and angry. They are sad and angry and selfish and think that everyone is there to take away. And so they take when they can and give only when they must.
Is there no baseline to rational thought? Does the relativity of reality prevent any sort of determination of right and wrong? Is it short sighted of one to judge in such a way as what I did above?
What is the cause of all of this anger, and what is the solution?
In any case this is not really the direction I wanted to head in this time around.
The American ideology of Manifest Destiny still exists in our genes and it seems difficult to cope with given the lack of physical frontier on this earth. Globalization. Cultural Homogenization. There is no where to escape to any longer, no where but within. And maybe that is where the solution lies. Though that seems trite and easy.
What is the great conundrum of consciousness? I exist, but what else does separately from me. Subjective vs. Objective.
To continue on this haphazard path... what is the future and what is your place in it? What is the great uniting theory of anthropology, psychology, all the social sciences? We spend such time observing... but I suppose that people are more complex than atoms.
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