30 January 09 - 22:26Back to school

I've been back in classes for about six months now, and it's been pretty hard to get back into the flow of worrying about assignments and group work and the like when you're no longer Getting Paid.

Anyway, in the interest of finally updating this blog, I figured I would share a story from one of my options this semester; it's the History of Totalitarianism and a lot of rather not-bright people are in it.

The professor is one of "those" young guys who like to talk informally and at length on a variety of topics; you can imagine that when he gets to around tenure age he'll be one of those old professors who can enunciate for hours on nothing at all. Anyway, in the course of his discussion, he told us to read the book 1984 if we hadn't, and shows us the infamous Big Brother poster from 1984. It's the one that says "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." I notice the girl next to me writing furiously. I look over at her page, and I see that she has written down "Read BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU."

This is the same class where some person behind me could not distinguish if an obvious Soviet propaganda film (replete with bourgeois caricatures stabbing a common working man to death with a parasol) was real newsreel footage of the October 1917 revolution or not, and proceeded to ask the professor if he liked Obama.

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