May
03
2009
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On Meaningful Stuff!

As much as John now exists in the mindset of pirates, development and general academics most of the time these days, it’s incredible how getting some sort of drive, and meaningful drive at that, can prove extremely cathartic for the soul. Back in 2006 writing about the Fallujah offensive I always enjoyed it because, well, that shit was fun. It just wasn’t particularly pertinent to anything anybody cares about. Not so anymore!

As I read more about my current piracy-centric paper and talk to the people in the know, it’s incredible just how easily one can get the notion internally that this stuff might actually say something. It’s important because it makes my studies both enjoyable and ‘noble’ in the not-so traditional sense. Naturally, being an academic agnostic it’s important to note that the truth of the end result is almost irrelevant, but rather it’s the process, it’s the striving to better oneself in the perception of a higher cause of study/life/cow-tipping/whatever which is important. To me anyways.

I’ve long since stopped trying to hide this and have instead started being very honest about my incompetencies, naiveties and aspirations, goals and strengths. I make no excuses, but I expect none in return. This is probably why I have precious few friends on my facebook, and also why I tend to cling onto the good ones I have at the moment. Nobody likes a know-it-all who really knows nothing! Nonetheless, those precious few who still tolerate me regardless are special, and it’s in them that I confide my hopelessly futile, yet irreversibly inevitable path, because they will encourage, participate, or – in a rare case – contribute to my worldview in ways I’d thought impossible.

I take this into my studies and use it towards something which I consider more ‘noble’ than mere John-writing warmongering, and I recognise the importance of this. It’s noble not in the traditional sense, but more because I consider taking these preciously-rare opinions and implementing in something I love more than any other profession to be important for something beyond me. Arrogant, perhaps. But if on the off-chance I’m able to create new literature where once there was a gap, I want it to include everything which influences me, and not just the pointy end of my own bias. That’s important… I think.

Below: The showcase video for Strategic Studies, and also a damning indictment against torture (ironically?):

Apologies for the lack of updating. I have been busy writing for www.undiscoveredcountry.co.za though, and also eating really crappy R6 springrolls on campus. Also, it’s getting cold, and I tend not to stay on the pc too long if I don’t have my woolly slippers on anymore!

Music for May:

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