Work-in-Progress

[Hunting for a good quote]

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

what time is it?

I just finished an article and I realized that I don’t really enjoy doing assigned writings because it is constrained with a fixed topic and there is always the deadline, it feels like work… During Social Thought and Theory lecture this afternoon, we learnt about what Marx has to say about work, “my work is an alienation of my life, for I work, in order to live, in order to obtain for myself the means of life. My work is not my life.” I hope we don’t graduate to become Marxes but even that depends on class, social position (cringing), but idealistically, I would like to believe, it depends only on mindsets (very disappointing coming from a Sociology major).

I’m learning a lot about time and space in a science module and although I’m grasping 0.01% of the science, I am very fascinated by some of the ideas, how time is not the same for everyone and a person observing a moving other are experiencing two different sets of timings. I cannot explain why so or do those crazy calculations which the prof flashes but I only know that time depends on who measures it. Amazing.

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