Final Brave New World

1. Why did Huxley towards the end change Bernard's character from being individualistic, wise and interesting, to being a begging, terrified, cowardly person?
2. How could the controller make all this happen when he understood all the unjusts of the system and had the power to fix it?
3. Why did Huxley switch main characters mid-book?

How do both these "utopian" societies, being completely opposite (one based on fear and one on happiness) both end up creating near the same brainwashed effect on the citizenry?

Brave New World #2

1. Why, after so many years, did Linda never assimilate into the culture of the savages, and instead of maintaining her title as the man-stealing outsider and continuing to sleep with other women's men like was acceptable in the New World, why didn't she try to fit in to their culture?
I can only think of the fact that she was originally so disgusted with the way of life at the reservation (like people from the New World are suppossed to be) that she could never fully accept their absurd and "disgusting" ways. John tells stories of how mean the other women used to be to her, because she slept with their husbands, and how hateful the indians were to him. The refusal to accept Linda and John led to an ever-growing hatred in the indians for them, which was never resolved. I hypothesize that the reason Linda never succeeded, or even attempted really, to fit in, was the fault of both Linda and the Indians for their ignorance and hatred.  
2.Why, with all the technology they have, do they not try to find ways to prolong life, but rather, after a person stops looking young and beautiful they are considered useless?
When addressing John about Linda's quickly degrading health, the doctor says " If we could rejuvenate, of course, that would be different" as if she is of no importance, because she is no longer youthful and fit. Also, since humans are being artificially "bred" and conditioned into their designated spots in society so they can live and work happily, once they can no longer work, they are of no importance to the society as a whole, and "individuals don't matter, only the one society".
3.What do the "savages" think of the vacationing civilians?
I am confused on whether it is often that the reservation gets tourists, because they have a whole system of lodging and "guides" set up for vacationers and no one from the civilized world acted like it was anything too out of the ordinary for Bernard and Lenina to go to the reservation. However, Linda acted as though she hadn't seen a "civilized" woman since she arrived on the reservation and was beside herself with excitement and joy when she saw Lenina. Linda cried out while hugging and kissed the disgusted Lenina "Oh, my dear, my dear. If you knew how glad- after all these years, a civilized face!" John also was fascinated by Lenina and claimed he had never seen a white woman before, yet the rest of the indigenous people ignored the visitors completely, acting nonchalant as ever. I assume though, that they would be as fascinated and disgusted with the "New World" as the civilized were with them. John is a great example of the contrast of cultures and customs between the two worlds. He finds the New World cold and hateful and disturbing, and I would imagine that the other "savages" would agree.

Brave New World I

The society in Brave New World creates physical conformity by producing children using the Bostonovsky technique, where up to 96 children can be produced using one egg. These embryos are created to fit in with their caste, physically and mentally modified to be what society wants, and what their caste needs. Using Hypnopedia and conditioning, from "birth" the children are trained subconciously and conciously what they should believe, do and enjoy, thus creating mental conformity. To supress conflict and non-conformity, the government ensures that everyone remains in a illusional haze of happinness. They supply Soma, a drug that creates the feeling of contentment and keeps the population from thinking about any problems that there might be, but instead ignoring them. Erotic activity is a regular, and encouraged activity, even for children, and expensive games keep the economy thriving and the people occupied and happy. By keeping the population behind a veil of pleasure, nobody realizes what they lack in freedom. We might say that this is a dystopia, because of the extreme conformity and harsh caste system and general lack of basic freedoms, but to the people of that society, who only know that kind of life, would find it quite the opposite, because of their lack of knowledge of there being any other way to live.

Emic and etic perspectives

1) A benefit of the emic perspective is that the author can explain why the people do the things they do, whereas an outsider might not understand why. The etic perspective author would be able to better compare the culture of the studied group to other cultures.
2) The rule for objectivity is because there is no way to completely eliminate an author's bias.
You need to have an inside infoormant to really understand the culture from an inside perspective.
The people might be more honest and less hesitant if you tell them truthfully what your motives are in the study.

Current ways of recruitment

Promising working class youths a free education for enlisting in the military may seem like a good way to get more young, willing people to volunteer to be in the army. In reality, this means of acquiring volunteers is a sad form of unethical bribery. By offerring a free education to youths in exchange for working in the military, automatically the lower-middle class youth are being targeted. Those young kids who don't have enough money to go to college might enroll in the military as a last resort, not as something that they are passionate about. As a result, some of the recruits will be people there just for the money, but not interested in actually contributing to the military and fighting for our country. Sometimes students enroll, not actually expecting to be deployed and not mentally or physically ready to be put into a lot of the situations out there. Jessica Lynch, about enrolling in the military, naively said "Yeah, you know that would be cool if I could have a job plus go to school at the same time. Yeah, that would be cool" (Interview with Time) The army will become solely made up of kids looking for money, but not really willing to lay his life on the line for his country. This makes our forces weaker. Unfortunately, besides this sad bribery there seems to be very few ways to promote the army and recruit kids.
When the army promotes and comercializes the experience as being a strengthening opportunity to build leadership skills, mentioning the opportunities  for free education and world travel. The commercials make the army look so beautiful, glorifying it with pictures of recruits looking determined while crawling through a challenging ropes course. You can almost smell the satisfaction and pride that would wash over you as you pulled yourself over that last rope wall. You picture yourself earning a free education and free world travel while doing this duty for your country, and it seems like a perfect idea. All that's left to do is sign up. Unfortunately, the military has been grossely misportrayed to you, and it is not so much fun after all. "Lynch had enlisted hoping to be able to earn a college degree after serving her country. (She had hopes of becoming a kindergarten teacher.) Her truck was part of a supply column that was attacked after it missed a detour..."(Jessica Lynch: The Interview.)

part 2 1984

Winston is having trouble believing what the state is saying because he can remember some of how life used to be, and that obvious alterations are constantly made to the past. They are, because in this world, any act of defiance is considered illegal and carries the consequence of death. His small protests are very different from the wide scale occupy wall street protests. First of all, they take place in very different worlds, where there are different rules and consequences. His world is very strict, no show of unorthodoxy can be made that is  not punishible by death, compared to our modern world, where we have freedom and rights, and are free to non-violently protest anything. In comparison, they are both protesting their freedom and the oppression of the higher classes and the government. Of course, occupy Wall street is a public display of dissaprovement of the upper classes by the 99%, whereas Winson's protests are inner and do not have an obvious effect on the government and are not made public.

Final 1984

Unfortunately and unexpectedly, at the end of 1984, I was left with the feeling that big brother had finally won. No matter the physical and emotional oppression that Big Brother could create, there was always that feeling of hope, because he could not yet mentally oppress the people. Within the confines of your mind, you were free to roam and think all the hideous, controversial thoughts you could conjure up, but if you were to express them, if there was any unorthodoxy in your expression, you would without question be caught. But even that sliver of hope, in the end, was crushed. In the Ministry of Love, Winston Smith's mind was violated and somehow all of his soul was sucked out. So gone without a trace that the though police had no worries of him rebelling or doing anything unorthodox, because there was no feeling left in him. It was possible to make rebels who previously hated the dictatorship, and its representing face more than the Grinch (who stole christmas) actually love Big Brother and have no feelings other than love for Big Brother and hate for the enemy country and Goldstein. Big Brother had finally won. I would say that the only way for the state to be brought down would be its defeat by another superstate, but due to the vicious cycle of the never ending war, that doesn't seem to be an option. The only solution I can see here would be an uprising in the proles. At the end of the novel, Winston loves Big Brother, and has become a soul-less clone, like Kathryn.

2+2=5

1.A government that controls and manipulates the people that the party they can make up their own rules and edit the past to make themselves look better, and what they say is expected to be accepted without question by the citizenry.
2. Its kind of an andry, repetitive song. Like he is chanting, with the rest of the brainwashed crowd.
3. In 1984, he says that if Big Brother said that 2+2=5, the people would swallow it just as easily as any other crap the party feeds them.

Reading Journal

In 1984, the government creates equality and conformity by requiring that citizens all wear the same clothing corresponding to their job, regulates activities that are outside of work, force everyone to have similar routines and require general orthodoxy for everyone. They reduce conflict by recording everyone almost all the time and instilling a fear in the citizenry which forces them to show no unorthodox emotions or beliefs because of the probable consequence of death. Being that this government creates unity and conformity and forces an illusion of happiness upon the people by instilling a fear iin the society, based around the constant involvement of the government in the lives of the people and the threat of death, or torture for even the smallest infraction, or demonstration of unorthodoxy.

Roller Derby

Roller Derby

By: Keaton Butler

When my fellow hooper, Sara, and I opened up the door to the convention center, hoops in hand, we felt a rush of cool air, carrying the tune of a Saxophone blasting out the last few notes of our national anthem. We came clad in fishnets and other outlandish pink and black costumery, to match the rest of the eccentric marching band, in support of Lexington’s Rock team. We were late, this meant we would have to awkwardly crouch while running in front of the bleachers of spectators (as is the unspoken punishment for arriving after everyone is seated) to get to the area where the marching band was warming-up. The announcer’s mic was turned up too loud as he announced our Rock team’s players. “Number 7, Murderface Monroe, number 9, Catcher in the Eye…”The crowd roared with applause. A referee took over the mic and did a quick overview of the rules of the game for new attendees. As he explained what a jammer was, and what different calls meant, both teams rolled around the rink in synchronicity, making different strokes and going different directions at the sound of a whistle. At the last whistle, the teams circled up around their coaches to hear the game plan. In the meantime, a guy with a painted chest and a megaphone got the crowd to perform the wave and get pumped up to cheer on our home team.

The teams start to disassemble and skate with determination to their spot on the track. The pivots, which are the 2 front blockers in the pack, are lined up first. Then, behind them, the blockers fill in. 20 feet behind the pack, the jammer, with their star helmets line up, one from each team.  A whistle blows and the pack is off. A few seconds later is another whistle and the jammers sprint to catch up with the pack. They either approach the task of maneuvering through the pack with pushing and shoving or with sneakiness and stealth, or so I had heard. In this situation, however, both jammers chose the aggressive route, and I soon discovered why. The jammer from the rock team busted through the front of the pack, in the process, knocking an opposing blocker into the “suicide seating” area. The crowd roared with excitement. The lead jammer sprinted around the track to find herself at the back of the pack again, looking for a way through. The jammer from the other team had gotten through the pack, and was making her way around the track to get through the blockers a second time and end the jam, so the lead jammer had to move fast. The track became a Safari, she was a lion, crouching behind a pack of elephants, looking for a way to get in, to find prey, but time was running out and then she sees a glimmer of hope, between the bottoms of two elephants and it might be her only chance. She pounces through the gap, clawing and ripping her way through the pack. The last challenge stands in front of her, she must get past the opposing pivot. Luckily, the pivot from her team sees her trouble and leans on the opposing blocker, creating a nice free space on the inside of the track for the jammer to get through. And success! The Rock team won a jam!

                At half time, we got out our hoops of fury, and strutted out onto the rink, followed by the band, playing “Seven Nation Army”, crescendo-ing into “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads. We hooped for the crowd, backed by the band and flag core (which is made up of women, and a man in a morph suit, who carry hoops and make up choreography to the band’s songs). Hooping for 15 minutes straight is really tiring, and we walked off the track at the end of half time covered in sweat, but smiling never the less. The bout continued, after a quick warm-up for the roller girls. Rock took and kept the lead for the rest of the night, winning the bout, but I didn’t even notice, because just watching the sport was so enthralling.

Before attending this event, the extent of my understanding of roller derbies went as far as what I had seen in the movie “Whip It.” All I knew to expect was a bunch of girls dressed in hot pants, knee pads, fishnets and roller skates zooming with aggression and determination around a concrete track. When I arrived at the rink that night, I realized that the movie portrayed to sport accurately. Besides my anticipation that all the girls would be huge and muscular, my expectations were pretty close to what I actually saw. I also expected the rink to be curved, instead of flat. This atmosphere was unlike any I had ever experienced. Roller derby is different than any other sport I have ever seen. It is beautiful, yet powerful and destructive, and much more badass than any sport other than cliff diving. What was really interesting to me was the accepting and kind nature of the people. Everyone was very willing to see new things, and learn about other cultures, and communities. There was a lot of variety of style, body shape and attitude, even within each team, but everyone got along great off the track and several players even came up to me afterwards to ask about hooping and tell us that we did a great job. It was a very fun atmosphere, and it was even more fun than I anticipated.

Utopia

- A Utopia is a perfect society, devoid of unhappiness, oppression, and problems in general.
- My Utopia would consist of environmental stability, in which everyone would feel secure, and each person would acknowledge and take care of their responsibilities, understanding that they are each a gear of the machine of their society. In my perfect world, there would be more tolerance of diversity and everyone would coexist peacefully.
-The soundtrack would be unique for every person, kind of like a Pandora radio station. The soundtrack to a specific person's life would fit with their views of the world, their attitude, and style.

You were right

-The singer is bitter about his relationship, and just general situation.
-The music is distorted and harsh, almost covering the vocals.
-The harsh, loud background music helped establish his frustrated attitude towards the way things went, probably in the decay of his relationship.

Reading Critically

Before you even begin to read a piece, you get hints and clues to it's contents. A title can tell you a lot about a piece, and so can knowing information about the author, and where and when it was published. The first time you read a piece, just read it. Don't begin to analyze it yet, or pick apart all its particulars, just read it. Get used to the author's voice, recognize the subject and be able to point out the author's opinions. After rading, summarizing a work will help you understand it, ezpecially with more difficult pieces. Then, you begin the process of critical thinking, which consists of analyzing, inferencing, synthesizing and evaluating. In analyzing something, you should look at the author's main idea, support for the idea, special writing strategies and other elements. By inferencing, you "draw conclusions on a work based on your store of informmation and experience. In your synthesis, you link the elements you pointed out in the analysis, to a whole, bringing the big ideas together. And finally, you can evaluate, or judge the quality of the work. And voila, there you have it, a critical reading.

Young Life

In Young Life the man and woman are embracing, and as they lean against eachother, their bodiesfit together like puzzle pieces. They form one single figure, each part of a whole. This symbolizes their life together, equal as one.The woman's shirt is a bright white, which is a harsh contrast to her partner's dirty, faded colors. While they form one figure, the color contrast adds to the fact that they are separate, contrasting elements of one whole. This difference shows that they are not the same, and work well together because of their contrast. Opposites attract, eh?

SOAPSTone Dave Barry

Subject
The subject of Dave Barry’s Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out is that women and men have very different interests and opinions, especially related to sports and cleaning. This difference between the attentiveness of women and men to different activities is illustrated through Barry’s example of a social event and the division of activities between sexes that took place: women and men in different rooms, concerned with their separate favored pastimes. This shows how the men and women have such differing interests, because the men were watching the World Series and the women were socializing with each other and partaking in what I’m sure was intellectually stimulating conversation.
Occasion
Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out came from Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits (1988). The essay’s general time of creation is made apparent by the references to the World Cup and Windex and other relatively modern things. Since these things are relatively modern, one could assume the general time span in which this essay could have been written (luckily it says it at the top, so, said “assuming” is unnecessary). This essay was probably written in America, because Dave Barry is American, and the obviously American names of the people in mentioned in the essay.

The time and place of the essay’s creation influence the essay in him the author having certain interests and referencing certain products and social norms that are specific to his generation. He talks about watching the World Cup on television, which is not something that would have been possible even less than a century ago.
Audience
Barry’s specific audience for Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out men and women who are in a relationship. The author’s target audience is exhibited by his jokes about his wife and him, and their disagreements and separate interests. This wouldn’t be humorous to someone significantly younger, or someone who doesn’t understand relationships.

The author’s general audience is teens and up. The author’s general audience is communicated through his slightly mature humor, and vocabulary.

Purpose
Dave Barry’s purpose in Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out is to be humorous, while touching on a well understood and common subject. There is no specific action the author wants his audience to take, his goal is just to entertain them. His attempted humor is shown when he retells the story of the Pompeii volcano disaster by exaggerating men's’ ignorance towards cleaning by saying that “They never even noticed the ash until it had for the most part covered the children.”
Tone
Barry shows a sarcastic and humorous attitude about the differences in the interests on men and women in Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out These attitudes are expressed with his exaggeratory and sarcastic word choice.

Eleanor Rigby

1. I do like the dubstep version a lot because it keeps much of the same sound as the original version, but just adds to it, but of course the original is my favorite. Maybe its just because it's what I've always known, and it will always sound beautiful. I almost want to be critical of the other two versions just because they are tampering with something so beautiful and it's hard to do it better than the Beatles. I really do hate the metal version though. It just sucks.
2. The original version would be considered the most aethsetically pleasing, because it sounds good to the general public.

Tense shift grammar entry

I was planning the banquet while he had made the guest list.
Rev: I was planning the banquet while he made the guest list.

SOAPSTone "Shooting an Elephant"

Soapstone “Shooting an Elephant”

Subject

The subject of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is that with an audience, one acts differently, or for different reasons than when the only person one has to impress is oneself.  This change of mentality due to one’s audience is illustrated through the author’s admittance to killing the Elephant mostly due to the pressure of the crowd, rather than what he wanted to do, or thought was right. George says “[He] seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind”. The author admits to being manipulated by the audience into doing what, having been by himself, he would not have done.

Occasion

Shooting an Elephant was written in the early 1900’s. The essay’s time of creation is exhibited when the author states “I did not even know that the British Empire is dying.” He is referring to the dying of the British raj, or empire, which ruled over India from 1858-1947. The place of the essay’s creation is lower Burma or somewhere in England, if Orwell had returned home by then.

The time and place of the essay’s creation influence the essay by causing the author to feel passionate about the Empire that reigned and the corruption of the British sovereign and to discuss how this affected his experience serving as a police officer during this time. On the subject of the hatred towards Europeans in India, Orwell states “As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so”. Orwell was treated poorly due to the time and place in which he worked.

Audience

Orwell’s specific audience for “shooting an Elephant” is people that are working under negative pressure. He talks about the situation that he was in, where he made a bad decision, based on the negative pressure that was pulsing from the crowd. He discusses how hard it was to face up to these people, and how it seemed so easy for his judgment to be hindered by them.

George Orwell’s general audience is those who know what it’s like to be hated, just because of generalized anger. The author’s target audience is revealed by his regretful tone towards the way he was publically harassed because of the anger Indians possessed at that time for the English, due to the oppressive British Empire.

Purpose

George Orwell’s purpose in “Shooting an Elephant” was to portray to his audience that it is hard to keep your judgment when being faced with a decision, while others are pressuring you and analyzing your choices, and in such a situation one might not make the same decision as when he or she is deliberating on his or her own.  The difference in one’s judgment from when they have no one to impress, compared to when their choices are being analyzed, and their every move is up for ridicule is illustrated when Orwell states “But even then I was not thinking particularly of my own skin, only of the watchful yellow faces behind. For at that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone”. The author is saying that his decision was altered by the crowd’s judgment of him, and he chose a different solution than he would have, had he no one to impress.

Speaker

George Orwell, who’s experience policing in Burma yielded the novel, Burmese days, and essays, “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging”, believes that it is selfish and unrealistic to make decisions based on the influence of a crowd, disregarding your own opinion. After killing an Elephant because of his insecurity in front of a judgmental crowd of natives, to which he was a foreign, Orwell said “ I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool”.

Tone

George Orwell shows a remorseful and melancholy attitude about his decision under pressure in “Shooting an Elephant”. These attitudes are expressed with words of regret and almost shame. This remorseful tone serves to show that, while under pressure from a group of people, it is hard to make the right decision, but in the end, to do what you know is right is always the better choice.

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell is known for his idealistic portrayal of the 1900s through his artwork. You might have seen some of his calendars full of months of happy "candy counter" scenes. In Rockwell's "The Runaway", he overlooks the emerging counter-culture centered around responding to America's problems at that time, by portraying America as a nation with a calm and benevolent social and economic climate, which it was not.

Across the Universe

-I imagen Planets and strars and firey meteor collisions, beautifully destructive, moving in slow motion.
-I have always known that a wedding ring is a symbol for marriage. A wedding ring is an object thaat symbolizes committment, it is a concrete reminder of your loyalty and love for your spouse.

Inspiration Information

- This song has an psycadelic, groovy feel.
- The funky guitar effect and bass give it that electric feel.
-The musician had to decide to make the osycadelic organ/ bass/ guitar combo and have it at an upbeat tempo to get this feel.

"Semeadores" -Diego Rivera

Subject: In Spanish, Semeadores means Sowers. These sowers are sowing an apparently barren field.
Occasion: These people seem to be South American Immigrants, working to sustain themselves in America. This probably was a scene from the beginning of the heavy inflow of South Americans to North America, when cheap farmwork was a common job for immigrants.
Audience: People that he can influence to see the wrong in capitalism, and the hardships faced everyday because of it.
Purpose: To convince people that communism is a better alternative to capitalism (Rivera was a big advocate of communism) and to show the oppression of immigrants.
Artist: Diego Rivera was known for painting influential historical South American murals.
Tone: There is an oppresive, somber tone expressed in the colors and the way the organic lines are used to "bind" the workers to the ground.
-Oppression is shown in the dark sky and the way the man's body is made with organic lines that match the curves of the field and hills, and the fact that he looks like he is clinging to the shovel. The fact that his body's curves blend in with the contours of the land shows that he is bound to working there, and the way he appears to be clinging onto the shovel simulates how his exhausted body ishas to cling onto hope to keep moving through the hardships he is undergoing. He respresents every man in his situation, and that is why he is faceless.

Wilco

-Wilco puts instruments together and plays around until they find something that sounds good, and then they deconstruct the song and see if there is a way to do it better.
-I might brainstorm a little bit on paper, not outlining or anything, just random unorganized ideas and bits of information scattered on a page. I just have to get some of my ideas down on paper before I can start organizing them. Then I start writing what comes into my head. I will write a sentence over and over until it successfully expresses what I want to say, and how I want to say it.

What is Nostalgia?

-Nostalgia is remembering the past, reminiscing on the good old days.
-This song reminded me of dancing with my cousins at my aunt's house to "rock around the clock" and "Build me up Buttercup" and "Knock Three Times." I also think of a 60's malt shop with rollerblading, poodle skirt-wearing waitresses.
-I remember being with my cousins a lot during my childhood, we would play games that the eldest cousin, Mackinnon would make up and dominate. She would tell the guys we were playing power rangers, and to dress like a power ranger they had to tie their shirts like Britney Spears. I was the princess, who they had to rescue from the treehouse, which was guarded by Mackinnon, who, being 4 years older and physically superior to us, would just throw the boys down or throw walnuts at them if they got near. It was awesome.

The Pinch of Poverty

1. Poor education
Difficulty getting jobs in the current economy
Disabilities
2. The somber expressions of the subjects, the faded colors used and the huddled position of the family portrays poverty in a negative light, but in the bright yellow flowers the girl is selling, there is a positive, hopeful light.
3. It is an unfortunate and desperate life to live in poverty and impoverished families have to seek shelter, and wen there is nowhere to go they turn to eachother.
4. The dark, somber colors show how hard and sad the life of poverty is, but the basket of yellow flowers the girl is tring to sell portray a glimmer of hope in the wake of this dreary setting, something to work towards.

Poverty

The article "Live Free and Starve" pointed out the interestingly unheard of point that children being forced into child labor, although being deprived of their childhood, at least have somewhere to sleep and enough to eat. Divakaruni tells a story of a young, impoverished boy, hired by his mother to do things like "sweeping and pumping water from the tube-well", in exchange for having a home to live in and money to take back to his family. The author states "Still, I would not disagree with anyone who says that it was hardly a desirable existence for a child. But what would life have been like for Nimai if an anti-child-labor law had prohibited my mom from hiring him?" It is true that without any income, the children from these impoverished families might live an even more desperate existence, but is it worth it to have freedom? I think so. America should do more to help those families pay for meals and school, etc. but it is unacceptable to have children working 9 hours a day in such harsh environments as crowded factories filled with toxic fumes.

Singer focuses more, not on whether impoverished children would be better off with small wages or freedom, and more on the fact that while Americans are disgusted that someone could directly choose their posessions and own well-being over a suffering child's life, most of us are sitting at home surrounded by wants, not needs and unwilling to give it up. These two opinions voiced in these article clash, but not directly, more the author's beliefs on morality oppose. Singer talks more about the difference, morally between people who directly choose their things over lives of sufferring children, and those who are disgusted by the previous, but themselves indirectly choose themselves over impoverished children. Divakaruni talks about what is best for children in third world countries, on labor laws. I agree with Singers views on this situation more. He points out that we are snuggled up in our comfortable homes, feeling sorry for the needy, but unwilling to help them ourselves.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

This song had a lot of bass, and one pretty rad bass line in particular i really like. I think I like it so much because I play bass guitar and cello, so I kind of listen more to lower sounds. I really like the synth sounds in this song too, because I listen to some electronic music.