<p>Anybody heard that song Grace Kelly by Mika? I downloaded it, and that song is GOD.</p>
<p>Also, I was selected to do a solo during my school's senior paegent...it's basically a dancing segment the school teams put on for the benefit of the seniors. It's six sets of 12 minute dances. I happen to know the music video dance from JT's "My Love", so...yeah. I get to dance that.</p>
<p>oh i kinda remember that song, saw the music video once on like mtv europe</p>
<p>weird guy, weird video, i think it was a good song though</p>
<p>YAR.</p>
<p>I haven't talked in a while here :(</p>
<p>I feel sad.</p>
<p>YEAARRRGH
we missed you tako</p>
<p>:) Lol. I love how we're like friends...but not because we've never seen each other in our lives!</p>
<p>I've been busy with my literature essay... INVISIBLE MAN <3 I have decided that I am in love with this book in spite of my not understanding half of it...it's just so DEEP and I LOVE IT.</p>
<p>Haha :) Essay's due Thursday! Eeeps.</p>
<p>I read some of Invisible Man way back when, but I stopped when it began to annoy me. I dunno, it was way back in Jr. High (I was an ambitious little kid...), but it put me off enough that I decided to read Grapes of Wrath instead when we were given the choice this year.</p>
<p>Me and my problems with race...</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>We're reading East of Eden next. That sounds exciting too! </p>
<p>I like to read, I've decided, when I can discuss the book with people. Otherwise there's not half as much of a sense of fulfilment.</p>
<p>You're not going to challenge me on my dislike for the book? :(</p>
<p>Actually, that's probably for the better. I don't even remember, except it was really graphic and I didn't like that. Haha</p>
<p>Oh yeah it's definitely very graphic, I agree. Incest, bloody super graphic scenes, sex, rape, etc, etc, eye falling out, etc, etc, castration - "two bloody blobs" <- hahaha the guys in our class were TOTALLY SILENT while we were discussing that...</p>
<p>I don't challenge people because...I'd probably lose :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess I never got as far in the book as castration and bloody blobs. =)</p>
<p>You should totally challenge people every once in a while, though. It's fun and if you challenge the right person I'm sure they'd be ok with it. I know people who'd love to argue with you till their lungs burst and they'd never hold it against you.</p>
<p>Haha :)</p>
<p>I'm just not really an argument type of person unless it's something I actually care about, and those instances are rare and far between. </p>
<p>I mean, I can talk for hours (literally...you should see my phone records :P) to my best journo bud about our chances of making editor in chief of the newspaper...yeah, that's basically an argument as usually it becomes one of us vouching for why we should be shoe-ins and the other argues the reasons why they'd not choose us and why they'd choose other people. We overanalyze too much :P </p>
<p>But generally, I'm a super chill person, and don't see the point of arguing.</p>
<p>I guess it's the difference between arguing and debating. It's pretty common for me and my friends to come out of an English class arguing over whatever discussion or essay topic we may have had, and the debates get pretty heated, but we're still all fine with each other. Chill, I guess you could say.</p>
<p>For example, the other day I was apparently the only one who thought that the public sphere and the private sphere shouldn't necessarily be separate-- I think that the world would be a better place if we didn't have private lives.</p>
<p>Granted, I also think that that requires a pretty idealistic view on the government's role in our lives, but what of it? The essay was a theoretical one anyway. Privacy is overrated. =P</p>
<p>You think we should have private lives? I don't know, I think things would be much more awkward. </p>
<p>And how exactly would that work? People tend to become the "true" self while in private - simply because nobody is watching. But if somebody was watching all the time, then either people would never be their "true" selves or people would stop being embarrassed about what they actually felt. But I'm leaning towards the former simply because it's almost human nature to try and please other people. So having no private life would probably make the world worse off, because then everybody would have to impress everybody all the time, yes? </p>
<p>And obviously it's impossible :)</p>
<p>I think we shouldn't have private lives. I think the only reason we act differently in private is precisely what you mentioned, we feel the need to please other people or we're too embarrassed to admit to others what we actually think or feel. Honestly, what do I do in private that would make others cringe? Not anything, really.</p>
<p>I guess it comes down to how I think people would react. Honestly, I think in a world where everyone was forced to be themselves in public, people would eventually learn to accept each other. Maybe it's an unrealistic view of human nature, but there's gotta some way we can learn to accept others as how they are, and what way would be better than pure and simple shock value? :D</p>
<p>And perhaps the all-seeing public eye would keep those with messed up private lives (serial killers or whatnot) in place. I dunno, I'm starting to contradict one of my essays. I've thought about this too much to really have a single stance, I could probably argue against myself. Heh</p>
<p>EDIT: See, this is exactly what I love to do. The only way I can really flesh out my beliefs is to have people challenge me and make me think about them. Otherwise I take a stance and there's not really any reason to think further. I think I may actually be excited to face that panel. =)</p>
<p>Lol. Tako with the rebut even after she denied her affinity to fighting.</p>
<p>Um, have you ever read 1984? Don't you think having no privacy could be a bit dehumanizing? </p>
<p>Although I completely disagree with you, at least it is an unusual (if somewhat scary) argument, and those are hard to come by. Yeah, and debating is cool; arguing, not so much. Semantics.</p>
<p>Like in 1984, I definitely think that an abrupt switch to a complete lack of privacy would be absolutely terrible.
On the other hand, if one were raised in a society where a lack of privacy is the norm, that might be different.
Personally I don't think it would be better for society because it simply isn't human nature. The mere existence of society is a repressive force on individuality, and we need privacy as a way to combat that. Without privacy, people would lose much of their individuality and conform more to the standards of society. While some might see that as a more effective way of living as far as furthering a united and progressive society a la communism, I definitely wouldn't like it.</p>
<p>I'm not crazy about privacy. The only things I believe MUST be kept in private are sexual relations, business deals, and war. Everything else is a product of people hiding their true personalities: in effect, being "fake". After my years of therapy boarding school (most of you know what I'm referring to) all that fake has pretty much been stripped away, but a lot of people completely craft a new personality in public. This is unhealthy for your psyche.</p>
<p>But yeah, constant surveilance is awful for you too.</p>
<p>I got my winter term grades back! I made high honors with distinction for the first time. That's the highest honors level at my school, for a 90 average and above. (The average...average...is a 75.)</p>
<p>private wars?
eh?</p>
<p>No, like...during a war, tactics don't need to be publicised. Otherwise, what's the point?</p>