It’s been a long while since I updated, well I was really busy the last couple of weeks. It was the usual suspects, assignments, assessments, reports and all those stuff that goes on at mid term. Well, since those things were out of the way, and I’m now relaxing in my room on this very fine term break, I really haven’t got any good excuse. But, I have been some what busy with my PHIL 3910 essay, I have two of them, one on ‘Appropriate Technology’ and another group project on ‘Urban Planning’, even with those two things going I confess I still had time if I wanted to blog, however, everything I tried, it seem that my creative juices seemingly just seeped away, leaving my mentally fatigue to even think. Anyway, it’s all good now. I did quite a bit of research on the matter, even loaned 2 books from the library, ‘Factor 4’ which I talk about in my last entry, and ‘The Conserver Society’ by Ted Trainer. The book is about alternate methods for sustainability (much like Factor 4), however, his ideas seem to take a step back rather than forward, suggesting quite absurd ideas. One of his ideas was to build houses out of earth (translation-MUD), cheap, durable, provides good insulation…rather intriguing, but…did he notice…it’s MUD whatdup with that? Call me a kool-aid drinker, but technology should push men forward not back, needless to say I never finish the book, didn’t even go a quarter…too bad…I’ll live.
Other than that, I’ve been hanging around Bara a lot. TV is good, I watch a lot of very interesting documentaries. One of them was about the debate on ‘Nature Vs Nurture’. It all started when a psychologist went in pursuit of the beautiful idea that nurture provided the fundamental blocks of the human psyche rather than our inherent nature. His experiment involved a boy (whose penis was accidentally burned off during circumcision). The doctor advised the parents to raise him up as a girl. I won’t go into the details (maybe some other time), but needless to say, it all went horribly wrong…the end was tragic, the boy committed suicide. Although this prove one turning point in the debate, I big lesson here is-when individuals pursue a beautiful idea without considering the variables involved (in these case, the human element/emotion), the results can be devastating. Much like Capote’s pursue of his work for his book ‘In cold blood’, again not going into details, Capote manipulated the whole situation so he could get his way…it is said that the whole ordeal traumatized him so much that he could finish any of his future works. I quote from the movie ‘the last epigraph he chose for his last finish work reads: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones”.’
Speaking of which, I have been trying to get hold of the book ‘In cold blood’ ever since I saw the trailer for the movie ‘Capote’, found out that the library has about 7 copies of the book, but somehow, it always seems to be loaned out…I even went to library today to check out myself. As expected, it was all loaned out, my guess, either by psychologist or law students writing a thesis (book was located at the psychology/politics/crime section, it wasn’t with the rest of his literature which incidentally was all loaned out as well), or just some curious bloke like me. I even discovered an entire new section in the library. It’s called the ‘Open Stack’ area, I don’t really know what they keep there, probably rare books, but they already have a rare books archive…or maybe it’s just a secret stash section, it is located in a rather strange position, you have to open a regular size door at ground level and walk 2 flights of stairs to get there. They did have one of his books there, but it’s a 3 day loan. I have to get hold of it somehow, I’ve become rather obsessed with it…I just got to find out what happen on that early morning November 15, 1959. The head is consumed by the whole thing; all the thoughts just keep circling in my head what happen, why…?? Question that I just got to know…
Oh well, maybe next time…will be heading down to Sydney tomorrow for a well deserve break…keep that stove sizzling and those oven burning…
Other than that, I’ve been hanging around Bara a lot. TV is good, I watch a lot of very interesting documentaries. One of them was about the debate on ‘Nature Vs Nurture’. It all started when a psychologist went in pursuit of the beautiful idea that nurture provided the fundamental blocks of the human psyche rather than our inherent nature. His experiment involved a boy (whose penis was accidentally burned off during circumcision). The doctor advised the parents to raise him up as a girl. I won’t go into the details (maybe some other time), but needless to say, it all went horribly wrong…the end was tragic, the boy committed suicide. Although this prove one turning point in the debate, I big lesson here is-when individuals pursue a beautiful idea without considering the variables involved (in these case, the human element/emotion), the results can be devastating. Much like Capote’s pursue of his work for his book ‘In cold blood’, again not going into details, Capote manipulated the whole situation so he could get his way…it is said that the whole ordeal traumatized him so much that he could finish any of his future works. I quote from the movie ‘the last epigraph he chose for his last finish work reads: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones”.’
Speaking of which, I have been trying to get hold of the book ‘In cold blood’ ever since I saw the trailer for the movie ‘Capote’, found out that the library has about 7 copies of the book, but somehow, it always seems to be loaned out…I even went to library today to check out myself. As expected, it was all loaned out, my guess, either by psychologist or law students writing a thesis (book was located at the psychology/politics/crime section, it wasn’t with the rest of his literature which incidentally was all loaned out as well), or just some curious bloke like me. I even discovered an entire new section in the library. It’s called the ‘Open Stack’ area, I don’t really know what they keep there, probably rare books, but they already have a rare books archive…or maybe it’s just a secret stash section, it is located in a rather strange position, you have to open a regular size door at ground level and walk 2 flights of stairs to get there. They did have one of his books there, but it’s a 3 day loan. I have to get hold of it somehow, I’ve become rather obsessed with it…I just got to find out what happen on that early morning November 15, 1959. The head is consumed by the whole thing; all the thoughts just keep circling in my head what happen, why…?? Question that I just got to know…
Oh well, maybe next time…will be heading down to Sydney tomorrow for a well deserve break…keep that stove sizzling and those oven burning…
