Another recent reflection
on college life: I spend a lot of time by myself. Like, not completely
alone, as there are people all around me... But just, you know, by myself.
I walk to class alone, I spend the class pretty much alone, at times I
eat alone, and even in my dorm room I am alone most of the day. Steve
may be physically in the room, but we both do our own things and don't
interact. Now this all sounds like it's not something to enjoy... But
I am really liking it. I'm used to spending a lot of time talking and interacting,
asking questions, hearing input. But now for the first time in as long
as I can remember, I am sitting back and not saying anything, not interacting...
just observing. I have so much time to think right now, and it's been very...
liberating, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to spend the rest
of my life like this, or even the rest of the semester... But understanding
the brevity of this current feeling and behavior, I'm definitely enjoying
this. You know what they say, "A change will do you good." (And by "they"
I mean Sheryl Crow.)
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Image of the Day
Yeah, yeah...
I know, I used this image last year. But hey, JCCR Day only happens once
every 365.25 days, so I might as well go all out and use the JCCR Seal as
my IOTD.
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Sociology Excerpt of the Day - "Manifesto of the Communist
Party" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The bourgeoisie, wherever
it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal,
idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties
that bound man to his “natural superiors,” and has left remaining no other
nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash
payment.” It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor,
of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water
of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange
value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has
set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade. In one word, for
exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted
naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
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