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mmoa_writes at 01:58am on 09/02/2008
mmoa_writes at 01:58am on 09/02/2008Question Time rantage will have to wait - I have some research to do!*
Reading my deadjournal for some reason (scientific?) and came across a really sweet entry where I wrote how happy I was that Susan Blackmore had responded to my email.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sue_blackmore/2007/11/a_dangerous_delusion.html
Susan Blackmore was once one of my heroines, and I suppose the only reason I say once is because I can't say I'm as interested in memetics and what she has to say as I once was. Or at least, not in the same way. It feels... old, lol. Like becoming a Freudian psychoanalyst...
It ought to be a happy feeling that I grow up, become more enlightened or whatever. It does rather worry me that there'll be a day when I'm still banging on with the same politics/beliefs and everything else just keeps moving past.
I've never been one for faith in the conventional sense of the word. Give me a system, and I can work with it. It doesn't make too much difference to me - not really. I just have to think about it for a bit. I feel like there's very little that really gets me riled. Inconsistency and ignorance are the worst offenders, but as that's found everywhere, it's no wonder I'm never comfortable with any given ideological label.
Is that good or bad? See, even those words are ultimately meaningless to me, especially in this context.
*hums*
It just feels strange to see these people still going strong, with me not being as much a part of that which I used to be.
*I'm really excited, actually - the closest thing to any political document I've tried to read before was some Council guidelines for nursery teachers for my mother.
Reading my deadjournal for some reason (scientific?) and came across a really sweet entry where I wrote how happy I was that Susan Blackmore had responded to my email.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sue_blackmore/2007/11/a_dangerous_delusion.html
Susan Blackmore was once one of my heroines, and I suppose the only reason I say once is because I can't say I'm as interested in memetics and what she has to say as I once was. Or at least, not in the same way. It feels... old, lol. Like becoming a Freudian psychoanalyst...
It ought to be a happy feeling that I grow up, become more enlightened or whatever. It does rather worry me that there'll be a day when I'm still banging on with the same politics/beliefs and everything else just keeps moving past.
I've never been one for faith in the conventional sense of the word. Give me a system, and I can work with it. It doesn't make too much difference to me - not really. I just have to think about it for a bit. I feel like there's very little that really gets me riled. Inconsistency and ignorance are the worst offenders, but as that's found everywhere, it's no wonder I'm never comfortable with any given ideological label.
Is that good or bad? See, even those words are ultimately meaningless to me, especially in this context.
*hums*
It just feels strange to see these people still going strong, with me not being as much a part of that which I used to be.
*I'm really excited, actually - the closest thing to any political document I've tried to read before was some Council guidelines for nursery teachers for my mother.
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i had a similar moment a couple of weeks ago... think it might have been when i was being interviewed about my university choices. just this wave of nostalgia and an odd feeling that something that was once *so* important to me wasn't anymore. it was interesting.