What happened in class...

Those Letters are insane, by this I mean that the person writing them is so obsessed that they can hardly breathe and will surely soon explode with the weight of their own internal turmoil, utter paradox.
The writer of the letters is torn by the chosen precursor to any and all correspondence between himself and this person they don't know. This dilemma has boiled down to a conflict of logic or.. process, formal acknowledgement of questions posed. But the redundancy of it build until it is eventually impossible to know. Unless both of them were to bring their copies of sent and received letters together w/ dates and piece together what happened there is no other way to decipher what is really going on. Its all too much.

Authority and authorship become a little more interesting on Friday when we discussed their relationship. We create a world when we write, that world is for its creator and its creator alone to determine the rules, laws, and term of existence within it. It tells us a little about who the person it.
There is a lot of historical culture which rebels against authority, some even hate it in any form with a passion. But what is authority in the terms of being an author? An authority figure creates and enforces the laws of the world we live in. This person can either encourage or manipulate the terms of our existence.
But when we read something unless we are being required to read it by a teacher or work we are agreeing to accept the author as the authority. For the purposes of what we have to gain we allow someone to create the laws of existence within their world.. now a part of our world.
When we are being forced to read something is when the rebellious part comes in surely.

I suppose this is much a question to the professor Tony Prichard himself but I would like to discuss what I think could be the answer. Why does he choose to have 4 browsers on his computer? and for the most part he utilizes them. In class he had at least two if not three of them open. I do not think it is simply a fact the functionality of each with whatever he may be using it to browse, for surely one could be effectively and efficiently used to serve all intensive purposes. The changing back and forth is certainly an interruption. It puzzled me enough to say something about it aloud. So maybe my interpretation of it is the greatest interruption of all but lets stay with the browsers. Does he like the chaos? the disorganization? or are the multiple browsers his idea of organization itself. Knowing Tony as I believe I do I'd be inclined to believe he just got a little bit of fun out of the nonsense of it.

Lastly I want to talk about the class A interruption that was going on the entire time. The plurking on the whiteboard was ridiculous. First of all I was rather .. not taken aback, but surprised and a little wonder-struck when I was chatting with Tony on google wave and he responded in plurk format. By that of course I mean "nanotext" (says, feels, hopes etc.) and then the statement that comes next. I would never dream of using plurk format outside of the world of plurking. Outside of plurk is where we are supposed to be using a language and a format that has been developed over thousands of years to be the best that it can be. Why fuck with it now? Perhaps people are so bored with normal speech that they are straying from it to this new and exciting thing, but that wouldn't explain tony's use of it.
But in the way in which it happened, maybe it was a product of the fact that there were many students in class, including myself which did not have laptops and thus decided to start our own plurk. And then Kye (having a laptop) decided to erase it, 'shame on our pathetic imitation of plurk'. Not really of course but what if? What if everyone referred to themselves in third person and spoke in plurk format all the time. Life would be a series of declarative statements. We would probably know a ton more about what is on someones mind at random moments. Truly it was a once in a lifetime phenomenon and I wonder if theres any chance it will happen again for it was truly an interruption to be remembered.

The Traits We Share

in Jenis Blog she talked about cigarettes and how she has become addicted. She talks about the cigarettes and their companies as parasites. What I want to talk about, is how very similar our own behavior is to that of a classic parasite.

I want to start this discussion with a few basic assumptions/premises.
1. People start smoking cigarettes to get a hi, after becoming addicted that hi becomes the relief of satisfying their craving.
2. They choose to begin using this product for its hi as result of boredom or lack of something better to do. Sometimes we begin to smoke them because everyone around us is, and we want to participate in the group.
These assumptions come from experience although I have never been addicted to cigarettes.

These actions are somewhat parasitic in nature. A parasite latches itself onto a host often for survival, or to use the hosts resources to replicate itself. In this case the host is a large entity known as a corporation. People often choose a specific brand of cigarettes, they pick their host essentially, which satisfies their needs or offers the product they want. It is intentionally luring in us parasites because it can make money off us. And by the time we are addicted we have a symbiotic relationship. Parasites often find strength in numbers, just as one smoker says to the other, want to have a cigarette with me? Cause noone wants to stand in the cold alone.. Since there are laws now which keep people from smoking inside.. like a law keeps out non-human parasites due to health codes, we now shun smokers. Like a parasite would stick close to its host we often keep our pack of ciggies "VERY close to [us] at all times" (Jeni). We crave it, like a parasite that craves its nutrients. I sometimes see our generation as a drug hungry one, we have expanded the number of drugs and the ways in which they can be used. Like parasites we do anything we can get our hands on, to keep us going until the next hit or something sweeter comes along.
We find other parasites to help us obtain them. The cellphone is probably the most prominent parasite in our society, children have them now. We cling to our cellphones like we cling to our drugs because we know the phone is the easiest way to get them.

On a much broader scale. Human scavenge the Earth for its natural resources, to Mother Nature, we are the worst parasite of all because we provide nothing in return for the massive amounts of damage and waste we create. We are the AIDS to its immune system. One day we will kill our host and be forced to move on to the next. We're lesser beings to those found in the movie Independence Say, they are the more advanced parasite.

Shivers

what if the parasite worked as intended? in a world full of lust had the parasite been engineered correctly it probably would have spread in about an hour to the entire island. no later than that would immediately jump off the island and the people would infect the world with their aphrodisiac crazed sexual exploits.
what would the human race be then? would we die out after too much sex and not enough nutrients? or would the parasites allow us to stop the orgy for enough time to ingest normal foods? my guess is the human race would fuck themselves to death.
would be rather hilarious if some conservative religious sect was able to escape to the mountains before the masses overwhelmed them. living on only the basic necessities and what they could bring with them they would morph the human race into a sex crazy vs not sex crazy civil war.
how would the Muslim world receive this parasites invasion. indeed the repressed sexual minds of some would embrace it and other would be so utterly shocked they are immobilized and stand still until someone frenchs a parasite down their throats.
Unfortunately, we would all die eventually whether the parasites let us eat or not cause noone would want to farm when they could be having sex. there was clearly a lot of work to do before he should have released it. I wonder if he was so horny for the girl that he couldn't help himself, if she tried the parasite willingly because she was interested in the research or if he slipped it to her to get her to have sex with him. If he really was trying to create something totally different from what he got, which is evident in his frantic and blood-staind attempt to fix the problem why would such an accomplished scientist make an attempt so early.. i dunno.. he's crazy