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This is sorted continued from the last post and was also said by my wise friend Sarah.
While doing the research for the plastic seminare, she also noticed how everything is advertised as being faster, easier, better.

In the 1930s it took almost three hours to cook and prepare a meal, today we want everything to be done in 2 minutes. We are always in a hurry. The other day I was walking to the lecture with a classmate, when we crossed a bridge she stopped to look at the river and I got quite annoyed because I was in a hurry.
Then I realised I never stop to look at stuff and admire its beauty because Im always in a rush, not that I want to be, I just am.
We are always in a hurry and life just goes by...

Later that week, my other wise friend Mary (Im just surrounded by wise people LOL) was talking about the drinking culture at our university and just in general.
I can't quote her verbatim but this is what she more or less said:
"People are looking for something and someone to fill them and to share their sorrows with, so they go to bars and pub, but come back feeling even worse because they haven't found it yet. They go there each time but find nothing but hurt, which is why bars are so dark, and only open at night, because they are trying to hide the fact that they don't really have something to offer (?)"

I haven't been here for a while, been a bit snowed under with work.
But check out http://www.diginomics.wordpress.com its a little something I've been working on. A bit rough but please check it out and comment.

Feeling a bit uninspired to I'll leave it there.

In Tim Harrowers Inside Reporting

I'm sure I can find so many misconceptions about journalists, but here are just a few to get us going.

1. Female reporters are gutsy, idealistic, beautiful and single; male reporters are surly, cynical loners, who’ll lie, cheat and ruin people’s lives to get a juicy scoop.
2. Reporters routinely solve mysteries before the cops, even after their editors yank them off their stories
3. Reporters spend all their time either:
a) Ambushing celebrities outside nightclubs, b) dodging bullets in foreign hotspots or c) shouting questions at crooked politicians on the steps of City Hall.
4. Reporters celebrate their big stories by drinking whiskey they hide in their desks
5. All reporters have a liberal bias

Ok, this post leads on from the other but they are kinda different. So this week saw America elections take a historical turn as Barrack Obama wins the presidency. Whilst many people were very glad that a younger, charismatic black man had taken the presidency, some people were unsure. My friend began this whole debate at the dinner table with regards to Obama's policies. She said as a Christian we should not align ourselves with such policies. But another friend said that it would be wrong if McCain had won, even though he was said to be Christian, some of his ideals were not Christian-like and thus gave true Christians a bad name (Im just relaying the arguement here). Then we started debating Obama's taxation policy. Then there was more or less a split between the Humanities students and the Economics/Business/ Commerce people. Although the Commerce people had a relatively good point in terms of higher tax for richer people decreasing the profitibility and productivity of the country (USA), I realised how capitalistically minded, profit orientated we are. Their theory was tax everyone the same even though poorer people will be harder hit, because if you turn a country into a welfare state, people will just get lazy. We shouldnt give people welfare because they are just being lazy and staying at home (here again Im just relaying the argument). And as usual, the conversation and this post becomes very socialistically inclined and concerned with the workers.

But also as a politics student (not the best but an average one) I felt like I knew very little. I didnt have a solid foundation of knowledge to give my opinion, so I thought. So I more or less just sat and listened, maybe that's my journalistic side coming out more.

But after this debate I went to Bible study where we looked at Ecclesiates. This sermon spoke about some of the futileness of knowledge. Eccelsiastes 1 verse 12 "I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind." But there is hope but not in terms of seeking God who fulfills all promises.

That was another topic of debate was the role of religion in the state, but I'll leave that for another time.

Whilst this sounds like a contradiction to my previous post and most of my life's work, but I sorta agree that ignorance can be bliss. When we were younger and didnt know anthing I was alot happier. Then I grew up and had to learn about so much stuff. Then came varsity where I learnt about economics and many of its Catch 22 clauses. I learnt about global warming and that its my fault. I learnt about my country's underdevelopment and all of its Catch 22 clauses where you try to develop a country but how, whose idea of development is it? Do we save the planet and leave some countries poor and underdeveloped or do we try and "develop" them. And I think wow how depressing is this. We chase after knowledge but where will this land us up?
Ironic for a person whose career is based on communication, information and influence that I think ignorance is bliss. Especially, after I said I will vote, but need information to intelligetnly vote.


So we taking this debate and stuff to Biblestudy next week. Will tell you what happens.

My sisters have always been there for me. My sister -E- has been my good friend and has cared for me for as long as I can remember. She made sure all my clothes were clean and that we were always fed and ok. It's still the same now, I'm just the poor student who sponges off my younger sister on so many levels. As for my younger sister _A_ I feel even worse that I have been such a bad sister to her cause I am much older and should have been a better sister and mentor. She has always defended me, even though she is 12 years younger than I am, for as long as I can remember. I should be defending my sister! When I end up in tears or have fought with someone she is always there to comfort me and make sure that I am ok, even though she's just a child. And What have I ever done for either of them? Nothing I can tell of. My little sister barely knows me and I barely know her bacause I am like a visitor breezing in and out of here life, never constant, never there for her when she needs me most. The same goes with my other sister, the time when she needed me most, I was busy being selfish and chasing my own totally self absorbed interests. She looked after my sister and my dad and did her matric, actually its always been -E- looking after _A_ even though I should have been the one doing that. I am such a bad sister, I wish I could make up for all that time lost and make it all better by making it up to them. But how can I?