i'm taking hum 260 at the u. it's all about utopian thought. we're reading edward bellamy's "looking backward", where he writes in the late 1800s a fictional book about a man who goes into the future to the year 2000 - a great land with utopian characteristics. he's actually pretty fascinating in the way that he describes the government system, the abolishment of money, sharing of wealth, individualism gone, hierarchial systems gone; everyone chooses a career that they would like, the less popular jobs have assets like fewer hours... many a book has been written in response criticizing his theories to pieces. but the main point he brings about in terms of companies rivaling against each other selling the same products, ripping off customers. salesmen trying to sell their products to make the dime and not because they're good products. the gap between the rich and the poor and the stepping on top of each other to reach the top of the economical latter. his dream is an egalitarian type of universal sharing equal lifestyle. although i can see why some of his ideas don't fly, looking around a century later in our capitalist dog eat dog world . . . although we have technological advancements, arguably governmental advancements, definitely societal advancements -- we're far from any kind of utopian vision that bellamy had. who knows. maybe we'll have heaven on earth yet. my indig 100 prof was talking about the end of the world in 2012 and said that maybe it will finally be the day that people figure out that mankind is not the head of the world but just one organism amongst the rest and we'll start respecting the environment around us. i guess we'll see.

i'm enjoying my classes. sometimes i look around the university and just shake my head. people don't care about their classes. they go to university just to go. or they believe every word their profs say. but i like university. i can see and agree with the pointlessness of it all, or of the corrupt nature of education, but nonetheless knowledge is something i enjoy. i realize i'm paying an arm and a leg for it, but until i revolt completely against the system, i'm pretty happy learning about things like utopia and spanish and expanding in my artistic abilities and examining childrens novels in linguistic detail.

bedtime.