I've been thinking about this whole blog craze.
I started this blog years ago and my ethusiasm for it has certainly waned.
It begins as a new and exciting thing to do in your life and that eventually decreases in importance and interest.
I hardly wrote anything here when I was at SSU.
For those lazy majors like business *poke, poke, wink, wink*, I suppose keeping up with a blog is not an issue. For we crazy busy English majors, it's a bit more challenging. When you've got a paper due on Henry James' The Bostonians and you know Bob the Professor is going to make you prove that every single word in that paper is necessary and justified, writing a self-indulgent few hundred words in your little blog that 6 people read is not at the top of your priority list.
I have been amused lately by how absolutely film-esque a blog can be.
Bloggers are basically actors. They project an image of themselves.
I read blogs and think wow...this person really paints himself/herself as other than they truly are...
This led me to wonder what people think when they read my blog here or at Myspace.
Do they think I try to present myself as other than I truly am?
I do not take issue with people who highlight their strengths.
False modesty is repulsive to me.
If you do something well, be proud of it.
If you are aware of your faults, admit them.
I do not like people who cannot admit that they are wrong.
Why do we think that we have to be perfect?
I had a teacher who told us that the hardest three words to say are "I was wrong."
I don't ever want to be so stubborn that I cannot admit error and seek to correct it.
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection" -Goethe
I suppose this leads ironically into thoughts about the 2008 US Presidential Race. :)
Bonaparte wrote that in politics, one should never admit a mistake.
Politicians are also actors. They will do what they think is necessary to achieve their goal. If that means that they must say one thing to one group of people and then say the opposite to a different group of people, they will do it. To mangle a line from the astute Dogberry, we can suspect them by virtue of their office.
There is no such thing as a perfectly upright and moral candidate because those candidates are human and perfectly upright and moral humans do not exist.
Does this mean that we should not exercise our right to vote because there is no perfect candidate?
I do not think so.
I am so enjoying this campaign.
What a monumentous time in America's history!
A black man and a woman are on the tickets of two major parties.
I wish we could talk to people like John Adams and Abraham Lincoln about this.
The slogans/attacks/one-liners from both major parties have been amusing to me.
There is nothing like this type of campaign that makes people sharpen their knives.
Favorite quotes/slogans so far:
"Maybe the most dangerous threat of an Obama presidency is that he would continue to give madmen the benefit of the doubt." - Mike Huckabee
"Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded." - John McCain
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."
"Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition."
- Barack Obama
And the cherry on the top of the sundae:
"Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than Sarah Palin's gun."
Can I just say....OUCH.
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