BEDA 20: hodgepodge of information.
I love the fact that I learn all this interesting information via P-Nelli. Today we talked about the invention of LSD.
See, it was designed by the CIA as a means of forcing captured prisoners of war to talk. But they didn't want to use it on prisoners right away, so they decided to test-run it on some college, or just out of college, aged kids. Obviously, everybody got addicted to it, and by the time the CIA repealed it, everyone already knew how to make it. And that's why we have Ken Kesey writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Also. I was in my school library earlier today. And I was trying to find Three Cups of Tea in the nonfiction section. I stumbled across the 800's, which all you Dewey Decimal lovers know is where they keep the "Literature." This confuses me. What makes the books in the nonfiction section of the library "literature," but Kurt Vonnegut and John Green have to sit in the fiction part of the library? Why is Virgil's Aeneid on some sort of pedestal? Because it's old? Really, that's a valid reason? Or is it a different reason that I just don't know? If anyone knows, please tell me... it's kind of bothering me, in this weird sort of way. (Among these books were Shakespeare, Dante, and that 1001 Arabian Nights.) Why are these in a nonfiction section of a library and not just labeled as "classics" or something?
So I get home from school and jump on skype, expecting to talk to Sierra (@crayolaawonderr), but she's on the phone. So I check twitter and see that John's broadcasting live! So I immediately go there and he reads some amazing poetry and answers questions for... what, an hour and a half? Two hours? Not even an hour? I can't tell. Alan was nice and gave me operator powers. I felt special. (: It was a fun show, full of product placement and Agloe talks and Willy and sellouts and... awesomeness.
A few days ago in EHAP, we discussed Niche. That man is a genius. He basically said "Up yours, Freud. We aren't controlled by our subconscious, we have free will." I totally agree. I think sometimes our actions are influenced by our subconscious, but we are ultimately responsible for our own choices, unless there is some flaw in our initial design that somehow alters our brain function (so yes, I do believe there are loonies out there). And we do get influenced by things that happen to us, but it's more of a learned behavior, you know? Like if my father did something to me when I was little that would cause me not to trust him, and I didn't trust him as I aged, that wouldn't be something that influenced me on the inside: it'd be a learned behavior. I taught myself to distrust him.
This blog is really random.
TENTACLES OUT.
See, it was designed by the CIA as a means of forcing captured prisoners of war to talk. But they didn't want to use it on prisoners right away, so they decided to test-run it on some college, or just out of college, aged kids. Obviously, everybody got addicted to it, and by the time the CIA repealed it, everyone already knew how to make it. And that's why we have Ken Kesey writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Also. I was in my school library earlier today. And I was trying to find Three Cups of Tea in the nonfiction section. I stumbled across the 800's, which all you Dewey Decimal lovers know is where they keep the "Literature." This confuses me. What makes the books in the nonfiction section of the library "literature," but Kurt Vonnegut and John Green have to sit in the fiction part of the library? Why is Virgil's Aeneid on some sort of pedestal? Because it's old? Really, that's a valid reason? Or is it a different reason that I just don't know? If anyone knows, please tell me... it's kind of bothering me, in this weird sort of way. (Among these books were Shakespeare, Dante, and that 1001 Arabian Nights.) Why are these in a nonfiction section of a library and not just labeled as "classics" or something?
So I get home from school and jump on skype, expecting to talk to Sierra (@crayolaawonderr), but she's on the phone. So I check twitter and see that John's broadcasting live! So I immediately go there and he reads some amazing poetry and answers questions for... what, an hour and a half? Two hours? Not even an hour? I can't tell. Alan was nice and gave me operator powers. I felt special. (: It was a fun show, full of product placement and Agloe talks and Willy and sellouts and... awesomeness.
A few days ago in EHAP, we discussed Niche. That man is a genius. He basically said "Up yours, Freud. We aren't controlled by our subconscious, we have free will." I totally agree. I think sometimes our actions are influenced by our subconscious, but we are ultimately responsible for our own choices, unless there is some flaw in our initial design that somehow alters our brain function (so yes, I do believe there are loonies out there). And we do get influenced by things that happen to us, but it's more of a learned behavior, you know? Like if my father did something to me when I was little that would cause me not to trust him, and I didn't trust him as I aged, that wouldn't be something that influenced me on the inside: it'd be a learned behavior. I taught myself to distrust him.
This blog is really random.
TENTACLES OUT.
I feel terrible I couldn't make it. But I made up for it because we chatted for about two hours last night (: