It's kinda scary to say that I'm on track. I've gotten all my sources, and I've gotta have notes on enough of them by tonight so tomorrow I can write this paper and turn it in come Friday. That said I'm extremely reluctant to do work right now, which is precisely why I'm doing a blog post on time.
Based off the complex and confusing nature of research papers in college, I have come to conclude that space, far from being the final frontier, will never be more than ONE frontier in the multifaceted dimension of intellectual exploration. This book that I am currently reading for my Cold War based final has just explained how, beginning with the original historical approach in which the US was reacting to wold domination schemes, historical opinion evolved into something resembling "it's all the US's fault we're so terrible," and from there into "it was a metric fuck-ton of every conceivable influence from international politics to American corporations!" The only conclusion this introduction arrives at is that consensus on the beginnings of the Cold War will NEVER be found! This leads me to consider the ridiculously complex arena of international events as a confusing and forgetful cacophony that, even given absolute understanding of the situation down to who mailed what derogatory memo about whats-his-name's mother, we STILL wouldn't actually understand things. My point is, beyond exploration into the Earth's oceans (which is still just as far fetched as Roddenberry's Star Trek), beyond exploration into outer space, and beyond exploration into mathematics, physics, or any of the other, tangible exploratory mediums, there are many unseen levels of exploration going on within time and history, philosophy and politics, psychology and the ridiculous complexities of human nature that, if Michael Pollan is to be trusted, are as infinitely complex as the intricacies of physics. This makes the idea that we will ever be actually "done" exploring any one direction patiently ridiculous. Now I'll admit I'm ranting, because even in Star Trek, space never was the final frontier, as the whole show was about discoveries in science and the human condition (although the latter was extremely simplified and pretentious), but if something as simple as understanding what has already happened is still as complex as deep space exploration, one wonders about the true lengths of ignorance piled into a phrase as simple as "Space. The final frontier."
In all honesty I'm just sick of how complex and hard it is to learn things properly. One would think that, with all this smart centered around something like this, we'd come up with a better system. "Question everything" my lumpy foot. Do they even know how hard it is to find numerous resources dealing with things that aren't CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH?
Based off the complex and confusing nature of research papers in college, I have come to conclude that space, far from being the final frontier, will never be more than ONE frontier in the multifaceted dimension of intellectual exploration. This book that I am currently reading for my Cold War based final has just explained how, beginning with the original historical approach in which the US was reacting to wold domination schemes, historical opinion evolved into something resembling "it's all the US's fault we're so terrible," and from there into "it was a metric fuck-ton of every conceivable influence from international politics to American corporations!" The only conclusion this introduction arrives at is that consensus on the beginnings of the Cold War will NEVER be found! This leads me to consider the ridiculously complex arena of international events as a confusing and forgetful cacophony that, even given absolute understanding of the situation down to who mailed what derogatory memo about whats-his-name's mother, we STILL wouldn't actually understand things. My point is, beyond exploration into the Earth's oceans (which is still just as far fetched as Roddenberry's Star Trek), beyond exploration into outer space, and beyond exploration into mathematics, physics, or any of the other, tangible exploratory mediums, there are many unseen levels of exploration going on within time and history, philosophy and politics, psychology and the ridiculous complexities of human nature that, if Michael Pollan is to be trusted, are as infinitely complex as the intricacies of physics. This makes the idea that we will ever be actually "done" exploring any one direction patiently ridiculous. Now I'll admit I'm ranting, because even in Star Trek, space never was the final frontier, as the whole show was about discoveries in science and the human condition (although the latter was extremely simplified and pretentious), but if something as simple as understanding what has already happened is still as complex as deep space exploration, one wonders about the true lengths of ignorance piled into a phrase as simple as "Space. The final frontier."
In all honesty I'm just sick of how complex and hard it is to learn things properly. One would think that, with all this smart centered around something like this, we'd come up with a better system. "Question everything" my lumpy foot. Do they even know how hard it is to find numerous resources dealing with things that aren't CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH?
