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ravenHave given up on International Relations on grounds am congenitally incapable of knowing stuff. Paper rubric is all about examples and details and Knowledge of Stuff Wot Happened Since 1990, er, no. My conception of history is currently "end of Cold War! First Gulf War! Bad Stuff In Yugoslavia! Even Worse Stuff In Kosovo! Millennium Bug Fails To End Everyone! September 11th 2001! Iraq!"
(Somehow am doubtful will be awarded any marks for knowing bad things happened on September 11th 2001. Yeah, er, I read newspapers. I do, and everything. Why do I know nothing that's happened, ever?)
History of Philosophy. Know nothing about Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant. Not so bad, as have not studied any of them. Know nothing about Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. This possibly bad? Not sure how one contests "bad" in empiricist perspective other than "oh god oh god we're all going to die", and this unimpressive for empiricists, because, er, we are all going to die.
(Still vague on the difference between porphyry and porphyria. Memory of being shouted at for same still disturbingly clear. Discovered recently am not the only person who thinks my logic tutor is actually Severus Snape. Very comforting thought.)
Cold War. Er. It happened? Possibly ended? Nobody got nuked, Khruschev and Mao spent time in swimming pools, history is written by the victors, we are all still here, the end.
Aesthetics. Plato threw the poets out of the Republic. Keep meeting random PPEists who tell me I need to let go of my random neuroses, omg, I need to have beliefs about art, omg, it's about intuition and functionalism and aesthetic satisfaction. For the last time: PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LITERARY CRITICISM. YOU ARE ALL WRONG AND I AM NOT BEING IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT IRRATIONAL.
(srsly. Aesthetic satisfaction? Y halo thar infinite reductionist regress oh ye gods I hate everything.)
Mind. Forgit what did. (Consciousness quite handy. Don't know what I did with mine.)
Politics of South Asia. Pakistan Not Very Nice. India slightly better. hum bharat ki nari hain, phool nahin chingari hain, etc., etc.
Political Theory. Egaliatarianism poss. good and poss. bad. Why would we blind sighted people? Know nothing about feminism or liberalism or rights. Nozick = wankerish bastard. Poss. also should have gone to G. A. Cohen's valedictory lecture on "Wild Political Philosophers I Have Known".
Ethics. Am not a good person. Er.
In conclusion: with one week to go, I don't know any stuff. Possibly could redress this, but cannot do work. How are people revising, I ask as a genuine enquiry? I am walking around my room eating ginger cake and bouncing off the walls like a five-year-old with ADD. Even with people here to shout at me I get distracted by dust motes.
...yeah. other people go, "ooh, shiny!" I go, "ooh, matte!"
Also persistent feeling that have done no work. Like, ever. Because I can't remember doing any. I mean, haven't done any today, and have sat at my desk a lot recently, but, yeah, work? Not so much.
Every time the Indigo Girls' World Falls comes up on shuffle, I misread it as "World Fails".
...yeah.
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slasheuse and I are moving to the Dominican Republic and running a cocktail bar. On the beach. With maraschino cherries and sangria. Yesyes.
(Somehow am doubtful will be awarded any marks for knowing bad things happened on September 11th 2001. Yeah, er, I read newspapers. I do, and everything. Why do I know nothing that's happened, ever?)
History of Philosophy. Know nothing about Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant. Not so bad, as have not studied any of them. Know nothing about Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. This possibly bad? Not sure how one contests "bad" in empiricist perspective other than "oh god oh god we're all going to die", and this unimpressive for empiricists, because, er, we are all going to die.
(Still vague on the difference between porphyry and porphyria. Memory of being shouted at for same still disturbingly clear. Discovered recently am not the only person who thinks my logic tutor is actually Severus Snape. Very comforting thought.)
Cold War. Er. It happened? Possibly ended? Nobody got nuked, Khruschev and Mao spent time in swimming pools, history is written by the victors, we are all still here, the end.
Aesthetics. Plato threw the poets out of the Republic. Keep meeting random PPEists who tell me I need to let go of my random neuroses, omg, I need to have beliefs about art, omg, it's about intuition and functionalism and aesthetic satisfaction. For the last time: PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LITERARY CRITICISM. YOU ARE ALL WRONG AND I AM NOT BEING IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT IRRATIONAL.
(srsly. Aesthetic satisfaction? Y halo thar infinite reductionist regress oh ye gods I hate everything.)
Mind. Forgit what did. (Consciousness quite handy. Don't know what I did with mine.)
Politics of South Asia. Pakistan Not Very Nice. India slightly better. hum bharat ki nari hain, phool nahin chingari hain, etc., etc.
Political Theory. Egaliatarianism poss. good and poss. bad. Why would we blind sighted people? Know nothing about feminism or liberalism or rights. Nozick = wankerish bastard. Poss. also should have gone to G. A. Cohen's valedictory lecture on "Wild Political Philosophers I Have Known".
Ethics. Am not a good person. Er.
In conclusion: with one week to go, I don't know any stuff. Possibly could redress this, but cannot do work. How are people revising, I ask as a genuine enquiry? I am walking around my room eating ginger cake and bouncing off the walls like a five-year-old with ADD. Even with people here to shout at me I get distracted by dust motes.
...yeah. other people go, "ooh, shiny!" I go, "ooh, matte!"
Also persistent feeling that have done no work. Like, ever. Because I can't remember doing any. I mean, haven't done any today, and have sat at my desk a lot recently, but, yeah, work? Not so much.
Every time the Indigo Girls' World Falls comes up on shuffle, I misread it as "World Fails".
...yeah.
edited to add:
slasheuse and I are moving to the Dominican Republic and running a cocktail bar. On the beach. With maraschino cherries and sangria. Yesyes.