so, my school made it on the daily show last night... i can't quite decide how i feel about it, b/c everyone up here has always agreed that we're glad we don't go to the school down there. so, since we do kind of have a separate mentality, i wasn't terribly offended. actually, i was more offended that the jokes surrounding it weren't
that funny... except for the "university setting" one. and then, i got to be a bit saddened/amused (on my coworker's behalf) by the colbert report's interview with guamanian rep. madeleine bordallo. *shakes head* poor american territory in asia. anyway, it was a little fun to feel slightly like i had a personal stake in what they were saying - after the hungarian-heavy episode, it's starting to become a habit... :)
anyway, be good, kids! the end of the semester is coming, and the grade fairy knows whether you've been naughty or nice. two more nights. two exams. two-ish papers.
two more children of dune quotes to send you on your way... "governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristicratic forms. no government in history has been known to evade this pattern. and as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy" (190).
"'you, priest in your mufti,' the preacher called, 'you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. i come not to challenge muad'dib [the dune series messiah, of sorts] but to challenge you! is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? is your religion real when you fatten upon it? is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? answer me, priest!... muad'dib [and his son] risked! they paid their price! and what did muad'dib achieve? a religion which is doing away with him!'" (225)
i just found both of those interesting and fairly applicable to current society in a lot of ways. bye, now!
