The wonderful thing about school is that it has taught me one of the most important life lessons I've learnt to date; I don't know jack shit. The more I learn, the more I realise how truly ignorant I was, am and probably always will be. I'd like to say that that's why I think everyone should seek higher education. In reality there are many who seem to get the opposite impression with their university degrees while others figure this out on their own without the help of expensive schooling. In the end, I'll settle with saying that I appreceate university for that reason.
There is no conversation I get into now without realising how completly clueless I am on the whole topic. In any feild really. One of my profs has been lecturing on Post-colonialism lately, concentrating on first-nation issues last class. I'd never really understood the land conflict between first nation tribes and the governement, and I still don't. I'd always assumed it had to do with making right the inumberable historical wrongs our ancesters did to theirs. This has always made me uncomfortable because, well, lets face it, I'm pretty much a direct descendent of the french settlers who fucked the aboriginals over. To add insult to injury, I've always taken a certain amount of pride in my ancestry. All this to say, I never understood the first nation problem and usually dismissed it out of hand because of how uncomfortable it made me. I'd like to say that I realise now that that's wrong but to be honnest I'm not sure what it is that I realise now. This all comes back to the fact that I really just don't know anything on the subject. And quite frankly, this bothers me. I WANT to understand. Not just on this issue but many others. I WANT to know why my planet is going to shit, I WANT to know why people are dying everyday in wars that seem neverending, I WANT to know ... fuck. I don't know anymore. I just want to stop being the one sitting on the side of conversations wondering.... where did they learn all that? are they right? What's the other side of the issue?
Aaaaaaanyways... that's quite enough of that.
I have a scrabble date.
PS-I've fallen in love. His name is Sebastien and he has black hair and white whiskers. He is, right now, very stinky.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
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2 comments:
Dammit. You always post shit that I have honestly thought about resently, and it really freaks me out.
We are so lucky to have FFAR. Sometimes it is painfully boring, but we are learning about issues in society that seem secondary to the art. We probably know more about certain issues than some people.
Also, what did the cat do?
Emily,
there are so many ways you can enlighten yourself in the areas where you feel you're ignorant. A simple one is the basic wikipedia search--look ANYthing up, and then click on the links scattered around the page. You can do this with books as well; since most topics are connected, to some degree or another, you can just pick one specific area, and follow your topic of interest throughout the other disciplines.
Most importantly, though, just express your desire to learn outside your blog (otherwise you get stuck with comments..."Comments" such as these). Anyone you speak with, whom apaprently knows a bit more than you do about something, can be a source of learning. All it takes is a "whoa whoa whoa--hold the phone" and things are generally laid out more clearly for you.
I don't know if you were serious, or you were just whining, but enh. There's my (very large) two cents.
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