Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts

May 24, 2009

presumption of knowledge

So while exercising today I decided that I needed some new music. I had heard about a file sharing site that had a lot of music so I thought I would give it a try. I downloaded to program and set up an account. I searched for some albums and found them and was downloading. Now to be clear I have no music on this laptop, but to be an honest theif I set the account so that anything I downloaded could be downloaded from me to others. Now I am downloading and whoever I was getting one album from decided to ban me from their files. Now I can only think of two possible reasons. One they looked at my shared files and thought that I wasnt sharing and presumed that I was Staeling their hard stolen music without recompense and decide to kick me out of their little stolen CD club, or two they are complete and utterly worthless and just dont like me. Now one would hope that it is the latter as that at least is a defensable position. If they just thought they new the story and did kicked me out without actually understanding the reason for the lack of music in my folders, well sucks to them. I mean really a file sharing website that people have ethics about allowable theft. Come on it isnt like that person made the record, hell I will go dollars to doughnuts they didnt even buy it. So i found it from another person on the website and now am proudly sharing it. Whoever it was that banned me I hope you are happy in your world full of knowledge, however limited and wrong that knowedge is. Must be nice to be so ignorant, the world msut be black and white, just like a dogs world.

March 25, 2009

T T T oh my

The teachers class that I have to teach here at the school is really quite interesting. Today I started with a topic on the death penalty and asking about why have it so on. The conversation was going well until....there is little room in china for individual thought and less room for a devils advocate. Not that I advocate the devil(I know him hes an ass) but I actually had on of the teachers tell me in a none too subtle way that "most of us here are party members" I informed her that I was aware of that and though they were party members I was still interested in what they thought. The party can tell you many things but can they tell you how to think, I inquired. That didnt go over too well. I may be reading too much into it but, right now I am a bit concerned. If suddenly this blog stops being posted or disappears send help fast. I am just kidding. Dont send help, I can take care of it. Anyways the rest of it was them trying desperately to set up a "the United States is not perfect so blah blah blah" and I find that the best way to stop that nonsense is to tell the that first. Somehow the people I meet have gotten it into their heads that we americans believe that our government is infallible. I tell them straight up some of the things I think were wrong and that those things need changed. It freaks them out because if I can admit the wrongness of my country why cant they? You can see their brains trying to process it. We ended up talking about some more safe topics. But the safe topics are boring. Who really cares about TV? Or the movies? thats shit I dont even do at cocktail parties with people I kind of like . Why have small talk for an hour every week when it is a chance to explore the vast chasm that divides our ability to see the world through each others eyes. Some people will never get it i think. It is a shame though, because I miss out on an opportunity to learn from them. Ah well if they want safe and easy I can do that too.The Ts are T aiwan T ibet And of course T ienanmen not allowed to talk about them.