Monday, October 15, 2007

Social Activism and Entertainment

We sure have had some interesting classes as of late. I love this whole idea of pushing the boundaries of our conventional education and taking the course in new and unique directions. It seems very fitting that a course about social activism should take this non-conventional avenue. I enjoyed out time with "quasi" activist Jon; he had some neat ideas and definitely a good drive. I thought he tended to blame a lot of societies problems on this all encompassing "government" who seemed to be out to get everyone but he sure has charisma.

One of the ideas I was left with is how much we depend on entertainment in our lives. These days, we won't walk halfway across the room unless there's some kind of entertainment value in it for us. It seems silly to say but I would recomend to Jon that if his campaign is going to succeed, he had better make it darn entertaining in the process.

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