<p>Oh, that’s too bad D-Yu. Join the club.
I think it’s going to take quite a bit of effort to keep this thread from falling off the first page of the forum…</p>
<p>Not if we can get back up to our old speed! It might during the day and afternoon, when we generally aren’t all here, but we own it after eight o’clock. </p>
<p>We haven’t even said anything that weird yet! I mean seriously, electric banjos are on the tame end of the spectrum.</p>
<p>Hello, fair citizens. Currently, I’m trying to get some of my better essays together in order to attach them to my application to my school’s newspaper. Unfortunately, that’s bringing me face to face with my TASP essays, which I see so many errors in now. I never actually went back and reread them after I submitted them.</p>
<p>As for saying something crazy, Cira: </p>
<p>My m.o. is to slightly toast two pieces of wheat bread, which can be switched for other types of bread, but I’m partial to the wheat, in my mini toaster oven for about a minute. After that, you whip the peanut butter up a little bit with the knife to make it more spreadably. After which the Jam can be added either on top of the PB or on the other empty slice of bread. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with putting the Jam on the PB, and i like the new effect.
Cutting is entirely up to how i feel at the moment. If I’m in a hurry, which is 92.76% of the time, no cutting, but if i want to eat a leisurely lunch, I just have fun with it.</p>
<p>TMI?</p>
<p>Well, we hadn’t said anything too out here on this thread yet, until your repost of course.</p>
<p>Journalism sounds like fun. It’s why I like Yearbook. People don’t ever read my school’s paper, but they at least look at some of the pictures in the yearbook. So I try to capture something true about us, our lives now in it. It’s terribly romantic, really.</p>
<p>Creating memories for high school kids does seem somewhat noble.
As for Journalism, I detest the field. The whole idea of journalism requires the writer to be an absolute objectivist(why is CC telling me “objectivist” isn’t a word?), which is impossible and thus, all forms of journalism from newspaper to television are biased and flawed on the fundamental level. I’d rather be a doctor or lawyer, jobs I have already stated to detest due to their service to others, than become a journalist.
Being a school newspaper, the stories are about the school itself, which is almost impossible to slant or introduce bias into. As well, I’m hoping to become a better, more succinct writer through the school newspaper.</p>
<p>Hey, Cira!</p>
<p>Nothing is perfect, nothing is noble, nothing is right. I joined yearbook so I could spend my study halls in the yearbook room instead of in a huge study hall. I think we need bias in journalism. It keeps the attentive questioning, and teaches those who don’t care how to think, based on which network they view. Sometimes journalists are helpful and expository. More often than not, I’m sure they cover a lot of things up. </p>
<p>Having a nice Tuesday?</p>
<p>I like your point about the reader needing to question the source, because I just assumed that the source would be present the objective facts to support or challenge the reader’s already-established questions.</p>
<p>Tuesday’s alright, i’ve got tons to do today: complete newspaper application, NHS application, and start a powerpoint presentation.
Yourself?</p>
<p>I think people don’t understand, and should, that there is no truth in any source. Their eyes and ears and memories lie to them, everyone lies to them, consciously or not. </p>
<p>Lots of homework I put off from yesterday… Read for AP, do my physics WebAssign, study for pre-calc, etc.</p>
<p>“I think people don’t understand, and should, that there is no truth in any source. Their eyes and ears and memories lie to them, everyone lies to them, consciously or not.”
I totally agree. This was my point in saying why I hate Journalism.</p>
<p>It’s still a necessary evil, though. Their lies are probably closer to some truth than the lies we’d make up otherwise.</p>
<p>The root of the issue is asking people to care about the “truth” and the way that “truth” can/will change the world. This another fact driving my call for either a dramatic reduction in population or the dissolution of all states in order to give rise to tight-knit “communities”. It’s my hope that creating a world system where the average person is practically forced, due to circumstance of the situation not by the will of the majority, to become deeply involved in the economy, politics, and social order of his or her “community,” they will be forced to care about life. No longer can they dissemble the world’s “truths” through television, petty debates(gay marriage, abortion, etc.), or an “Us vs. Them” mentality. The ultimate goal would be for every human to care about their own life as well as respect the life of their fellow human as much as they respect their own.</p>
<p>That’s tyranny, Donny. Forcing people to think and care about things, even important things, is the opposite of any true freedom that exists or could exist. I think one of the issues we face in our political system is that the media puts any emphasis on it at all. Politics used to be only for those who really cared about it. With the media shoving everything in any TV-viewers face, people start to half-care about it. Religious fanatics don’t care about politics, they care about homosexuality. Democrats and Republicans don’t think about politics, they think about Democrats and Republicans. Only the people who know that they should care and would care regardless of if it were necessary or not, should vote. The people who half-care or don’t care? We’re probably better off without their mal-informed votes.</p>
<p>Do you think we live in a “free” society now? Everyone one of us is beyond brainwashed. Why do you act the way you do? It’s because of how you adapted to your habitat over the years, and you had no hand in making your habitat the way it was before you were born, that was caused by the people that came before you. Just imagine if you were born in India or Austria or some other arbitrary place in the world, do you think you would be the exact same person you are now? Your stance implies that the concept of “free-choice” exists, but it doesn’t. My idea is what I guess I would call “positive influence,” which I don’t contest would be a form of brainwashing. I intend for all people to be born into a society which would brainwash them into freethinking not close-mindedness, into caring not indifference, and into humility of the universe not arrogance.</p>
<p>Sorry I was gone for so long. I accidentally fell asleep at the computer. 
I’m not even joking, I just woke up to discover that slober was on my hoodie and my legs had pins and needles in them.</p>
<p>Aww, poor Donny. <em>giggle</em> Why do you wear hoodies if it’s all warm-like down there?</p>
<p>Yes, your life is based upon what you’ve known from birth. You always have the power, however, to choose whether to accept something or not. You can choose whether not caring about politics is acceptable for your value set. You always have a choice, not between everything in the world, but between doing what you’ve always done and doing something you haven’t done.</p>
<p>Overt brainwashing to your ideals is better than sneaky brainwashing to someone else’s ideals? What would you do if people decided not to care no matter what you told them to do? What if there are arrogant, self-serving, hedonistic jerks in your society?</p>
<p>I don’t plan for this idea to go to be set in action or anything; my non-intervention ideals, which I’m pretty sure I’ve already outlined in full in the TASP thread, trump all other ideas that i come up with for the structure of the world order.
Really, this is me trying to think of the best world that could result from intentionally to change the course of the world. Like if I were an all powerful being, what kind of world would I make? I completely agree with your observations of the fallacies of my idea, but I believe that this would be the best possible world we could make by purposefully trying to change the current world. </p>
<p>“You always have the power, however, to choose whether to accept something or not.”
I don’t really agree. We are more brainwashed by the will of the majority than we can possibly begin to realize. The next time you make a decision about something, analyze the beejesus out of it until you reach the point where the decision stops being about you and starts being about something else. When you reach that point, you see how complex the most simple answer is and how much you have been influenced by the world.</p>
<p>In reality, this is all in theory. I realize that over time, connections would form between communities due to trade and then cultural diffusion would occur and eventually, we’ll just reach our current position. Maybe the Human Species should operate as a cycle: We start small and isolated, grow connections, become too cumbersome and self-involved for our own good, end up killing each other in a massive earth shattering way, and restart the whole process.</p>
<p>Sorry I’m such an unbelievably slow typer. (:</p>
<p>Whenever I think myself out to completion, I just keep agreeing with you in different ways that sound more contrary in my mind.</p>
<p>I just hate the idea of regression. Why stop now with our current path, maybe there’s something better ahead. I do believe in intervention- if we’re headed for certain doom, it’s time to rethink things. But we haven’t screwed up so majorly yet that there’s no hope for the 22nd century, so why not let things develop further so we can come to a greater understanding of where we are. </p>
<p>We are affected by everything that surrounds us, yes. But we have to accept something mentally before it becomes a part of how we think. Like in 1984, the people accept anything the government says, and would believe that they made the signs against the wrong enemy rather than realizing that the government has switched sides. They have a higher degree of acceptance than we do as a society. If you understand that everything is just perception, you can accept that particular perception or not.</p>
<p>I’ll be right back, it’s pizza time.</p>
<p>Pizza time! The best time of the day! I’m kinda relieved. Trying to debate and internet surf at the same time is hard. (:</p>
<p>I just realized that this whole debate sprang from my statement that I hate Journalism. We are out there.</p>
<p>I’m sorry for forcing mental taxation upon you. I’m reading back Monkey Fluids comics, so lots of chances to tab over and refresh.</p>
<p>High five for that! Dude, colleges so totally need people like us, Donny. </p>
<p>The slow typing is completely understandable. It takes time to fully expound an opinion.</p>
<p>P.S. I thought that this ( [Bread</a> Kills!](<a href=“http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/breadkills.html]Bread”>http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/breadkills.html) ) might be of interest to you, as it applies to the sandwich industry you hope to one day be employed in.</p>