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So, I think that I should read this.  But, I do not like reading big huge books that I can only access as .pdfs.  What i've read so far is kind of... AWEsome.  But i don't want to read 1905 pages...

Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems
that the most important question is whether there is an
important question. The only serious question is whether
there is anything to take seriously. What has previously been
considered of value or importance appears as only an
expression of myth, bias…error.

 And then of course.

We open the successive doors in Bluebeard’s castle because
“they are there,” because each leads to the next by a logic of
intensification which is that of the mind’s own awareness of
being. To leave one door closed would be not only
cowardice but a betrayal—radical, self-mutilating—of the
inquisitive, probing, forward-tensed stance of our species.
We are hunters after reality, wherever it may lead. The risk,
the disasters incurred are flagrant. But so is, or has been
until very recently, the axiomatic assumption and a priori of
our civilization, which holds that man and truth are
companions, that their roads lie forward and are
dialectically cognate….We cannot turn back. We cannot
choose the dreams of unknowing. We shall, I expect, open
the last door in the castle even if it leads, perhaps because it
leads, onto realities which are beyond the reach of human
comprehension and control. We shall do so with that
desolate clairvoyance, so marvelously rendered in Bartók’s
music, because opening doors is the tragic merit of our
identity.

This stuff is pretty interesting.  See, this is how i want to spend my hours.  Reading, proliferating knowledge or examination, speculating.  Not just constantly following the rules of a society.  It is a selfish desire, but do you think we could perhaps stop the equivocating--at least for certain people?  I don't want any change.  I truly don't.  But i have to question.  And analyze.  And sift.  So that I can be power.  So that I can distinguish.  So that I can.

I want new.  I don't want, "Oh, you have to check yourself based on this event/phenomenon/rule."  I want creativity.  I want imagination.  I want the right-brain, uncentrifuged by the left-brain; then I want the left-brain.  Stop taking from the ism and start feeding your own ism.  But make sure it isn't an ism.  Make sure that you don't tie it down.  Make sure that it can live on its own--with the back-up of the national internationality of self.  Let it draw from every idea, ever.  Let it so remain.  Then let it be destroyed.  Let water into it, and have it degrade.  Let the sun melt it, turn it white, and nourish.  Let the flies have it.  Then make a new one.  Then decide that you want the old one back.  Clean it up a bit.  Then decide on the other, of whichever other you have.  Then merge the two.  And repeat.  Invent.

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In English class, we have been reading The Grapes of Wrath.  It's kind of funny how there is so much religious imagery going on in that book while at the same time there is so much suffering.  The word passion means suffering.  So all the passion of the Christians, yeah, that's suffering.  Not any sort of good quality.  The funny part is that it is so nonsensical.

This train of thought invariably got me thinking of how the current order of society is breeding sheep-mentality into the nation.  There are always outliers that go in the opposite direction, but as a general rule, most of the people are held within the rules.  Whether it be that of a bureaucratic system or that of a communist dictatorship is irrelevant.  The fact of the matter is that we as a generation are being taught to stay within all the lines in school--to search for the answer, not strive for an idea.  I think that this is good for society--at least somewhat.  I really cannot bring myself to hate this in the broad spectrum.  Nor can I bring myself to hate it on the individual spectrum because of those outliers--the loners and the artists.

It is difficult to remark on society.  In fact, ours is so very complex that the line between politics, economics, religion, and social aspects are almost indistinguishable.  It's all just one mass.  Now, again, I do not know if this is good or bad.  And it definitely comes from a narrow scope.  So take it with a grain of salt.

Back to Grapes of Wrath.  I think it is one of the funniest books i have ever read.  Honestly, it is hilarious and depressingly hopeless all at once.  The humor factor is augmented by the fact that I am in a class full of upper-intelligence students who can notice some of the humorous things very easily.

Sorry for not posting so much recently  (haha, as if you all deserve it).  I've been a bit stressed lately.  I have soccer, school, science stuff, society, salliteration, etc to worry about.  So, I haven't been doing that much abstract thinking lately.  But I appreciate my readers.  It seems they have increased in the past week or so.  Huzzah for accomplishments.  And now, I bid you adieu until next time, whoever "you" are.  Have a crimminy jim-jams week.  (I love Spongebob and Courage.)  ;)