Communism

After this weeks lectures I began weighing the values of Communism against the capitalism of America. The idea of communism seems more liberal to me because equality is one of the big points. Communism ensures great equality, but if America were to try and switch to Communism, it would most likely fail because Capitalists thrive on incentives money. If we switched to Communism, nobody would be as productive or even work because their is no incentive to be the very best. The Communistic mentality of pleasure in your job is not valid in a capitalistically based society. The type of government is an integral part of the infrastructure of a nation and it is unlikely that anything less than a revolution would fail to convert government.

Waiting for Godot

I couldn't make it to the play this weekend, but I watched it on blackboard, and was disappointed when Godot never came. I waited the whole play waiting for Godot and, like the characters in the play, got bored and contemplated leaving, or in my case stop watching. Interstingly, I didn't leave because I was intrigued by Godot and wanted him to arrive.

Time Management!

In Aristotelian thought happiness is acquired by using reasoning to make decisions rather than following desires, and right now I am not happy. I did the things I desired and put myself on a really tight schedule, rather than thinking about and then doing all of my work beforehand. Not only am I not happy in the Aristotelian sense, but also in the emotional sense.

The Super Bowl didn't feel so super

Finally, the biggest game of the year was here, and I wasn't interested at all. I really didn't know a thing about the teams playing, the commercials just didn't feel all that funny this year, and honestly The Black Eyed Peas didn't sound to good. Am I spoiled off of the Saints Super Bowl victory last year, and can I no longer be happy about the superbowl now that We've tasted victory? Happiness can be hard to obtain, because one moment its yours, and the next its The Green Bay Packers.

Where did all of the philosophers go?

In the past week we having been learning about many philosophers from Thales to Pythagoras. I was thinking about how we had all of these great philosophers in the past, but for the past 50 years or so we have not had a great philosopher. This could be a result of the world advancing technologically and mentally since the times of the acient philosophers where we now know that the world isn't composed of air, wind, or water, but of atoms and the stars aren't celestial being that watch over us. Now that we understand more facts about the world we have less to philosophize about and no major philosophical breakthroughs. This makes me wonder if the age of philosophers is dying due to the advancement of society.

I know you are, but what am I?

This past weekend I went home to say hi to my family in far far away Metairie, LA and my cousin was in town with his 6 year old child. While I was playing around with him I called him a little booger, and then he said" I know you are, but what am I? I just agreed with him and went on playing. On monday we learned more about types of common falacies, I found the statement "I know you are, but what am I?" most related to tautology which is a type of circular argument that makes the statement impossible to disprove. It is understandable that a 6 year old would make an arguement like this, but later that day I was discussing what I learned in World Religions with my aunt and she disagreed with me on some facts. Instead of having a reasonable argument with me, she said,"I know I'm right" and stormed off. This proves to me that true arguments are difficult to have and common falacies are the easy way out.

Meaning of life?

Recently I have been playing a game called Minecraft. In the game you run around the world building houses out of materials you mine just to survive to the next day. The catch to this game is that there is no purpose and no way to win, so why do we play? Life could be viewed in the same way, as a journey without a goal, but we still choose to live. Is the purpose of life to just survive to the next day or something more?