Pro bono: Bono after he ditched his first band, MeAlso.***
These last few weeks I've been in Costa Rica to see my sister and hang out, so I have to apologize for my missed blog entry last week. My mom and dad and I left a week before Thanksgiving break, so I missed a pretty substantial chunk of school hanging out on some beautiful beaches and bummin' around the cloud forests.
One super interesting note: at one of the lodges we stayed at, a tame deer befriended me and acquiesced to a photo op, producing a really awesome picture of her licking me face and me being ever-so-pleased. However, due to the fact that apparently I'm super lazy when I'm home for vacation, I didn't upload any pictures and I'll have to wait to post that picture later on.
As for the Calvin comic, to avoiding beating around the metaphorical bush of hidden meaning, it simply represents a sort of "quiet desperation" that I've been feeling, to obliquely use Thoreau's phrase. I've been struggling to find meaning in struggling, anxious to discover the cause of my anxiety, pretty much just trying to figure out why I'm learning all this academic stuff at Luther and if the academic and social standards of our culture are worth giving a flying hoot about. It seems like a venture based on the idea that knowledge in the academic sense is inherently valuable and that using that knowledge to make a living in society is inherently desirable. But I don't know that it is.
Anyways, tomorrow we start "The Allegory of the Cave" by Plato in Paideia, and from what I've heard, it's a sort of expose on the struggling of man to gain knowledge. Perhaps this will help me gain a little perspective. Or maybe it will just confuse me.
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