Bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5AAy1ojtc

I'd encourage all people to watch George Carlin's "It's Bad for Ya", as it expresses many of the ideas that I hold near and dear to my heart and I believe some of his best work. In particular it deals with the identification and calling out of bullshit. This ranges from outright lies (God is watching) to somewhat vague fibs (you have rights).

As I return to campus, I am left with a continually ambiguous situation as must confront not only the nascent offer of renewal and the old threat of repetition and ritual. Basically stupid bullshit. Few wish to return to a den of differential equations and few wish to remain in limbo indefinitely. I believe that most students, on some level, feel a kind of ambiguous, vague terror. I am not intellectually better than my peers and I must believe that I am sufficiently normal mentally to not be considered "crazy". True, we deal not the monster under the bed, for such a beast has a concrete place. It is fluid and elusive. It deals in shadow and confusion and behind walls and masks. I believe that most students choose to avoid a world that is simultaneously confusing and terrifying accepting what I call bullshit and getting into little groups to corroborate their bullshit. For what is a church, but a means of perpetuating what would otherwise be an insane story? I pick not only on religion. Universities are full of group sessions of people getting together to tell each other how right the other is. True, life doesn't seem as harsh if you have a seamless, safe and sanitary narrative. But I choose to differ. To strip bare the inner workings our world; to grab hold lies and bullshit in both hands and strike back is to stare back into a world in which rules are not fair, anying goes and everything doesn't work out in the end.