5 Feb. 2012

I like that, that things are never just the way they are, that we make things so. I used to tell people that, whenever some wiseup started complaining about how the world is a mess, I'd go and say something along the lines of, there is no world, the world is you, go and do something about it, but then again, I never did anything about anything myself so I guess that makes that.

In class, we had a game called lifeboat, some dozen of us volunteered to roleplay various characters stranded in a overcrowded life boat after a shipwreck. The point of the game was to slim the boat by throwing overboard half the ill fated passengers. Things went south as people started dropping, It was funny (not funny funny), one of the character was fat and people voted her off almost instantly "get the fat kid", lord of the flies much? I played an ex-football player and a husband, and in the end, I barely managed to stay in by leeching myself to my wife and not voting anyone off in the hopes that in turn, they won't me. Once I felt pretty settled in, I preached something about being reasonable and rainbows but I don't think anyone heard me. It was nice (not nice nice) to see the kind of things that people valued in a pretend life-death situation.

The theme of this week seemed to be about our growing dependency on technology and the effect of this change on us both as a society and as individuals. Despite the attempt given to make the subject as much as objective as possible, I think it landed on us with a negative if not sarcastic undertone. I think technology is what you make of it, Sony dosen't make TVs to make people lazy, it's people that turns people into couch potatoes. If we want to embrace values like family time and goodnight moon, I think it's rather irrelevant whether or not we have one or five TV sets, we ought to man up and look in ourselves for answers rather than pointing our fingers outwards.

Life is great, I want coffee, wait coffee is bad. I feel blah.