A Strange Week
April 23, 2011
I’ve been having flu-like symptoms but I won’t self-diagnose and say it’s the flu because I really am not sure if that’s what it is. Inaccuracy has been bugging me lately and I’ve been trying not to jump to conclusions but to find empirical facts about things, particularly historical things, as much as possible. This might sound quite trivial and superficial but two posts ago, I was bogged down with an identity-crisis that revolved around the discipline of a history and studying history. The process that led to the teeny meltdown? Watch this:
Finish all assignments; in the midst of completing last mega-assignment I get distracted and read…BLOGS! (Tangent: I find a certain thrill when I stumble upon a blog of someone I know but am not quite close to and then I find out, “hey, he/she has a blog and they write quite a bit!” and then I dig and learn and read about their lives and am both fascinated and weird-ed out by how weird I myself, am.) While procrastinating, I go to my usual websites for entertainment news and tabloid gossip; then I do my research for my paper, write my paper and prepare for my exams.
While doing all that, it hits me: shouldn’t I be learning and trying to learn all about empirical facts, historical truths and accuracies?
Blogs, tabloidy sites, enterntainment news…that’s all kinda dodgy in terms of accuracy. Too many rumours, and “he-said-she-said” BUT I consume it all and it makes me giddy with excitement sometimes, well, too many times. It’s worse when I quote these facts to someone and then feel all proud of myself.
That’s when the realisation that I am a person full of fluff rather than intelligence sinks it.
I need to read better quality stuff.
oh wow. a whole post of absolutely nothing substantial.
ERPS.
