usually, i'm the kind that never has nothing to say. i really do always have an opinion. about everything.
but the for the past two weeks (which seems like forever), i've been left surprizingly opinionless.
i'm not entirely sure what's to blame but these days i sit in my classes and i just think. wow. how come everyone knows so much?
how is it that the world's wealth of knowledge seems like it's been transferred to everyone else, except for me?
i feel foreign.
there was a point in time when i first got back from canada/US after a good six months of being abroad. and in class everyone was talking about the recent election and how australia was just about ready to be flushed down the toilet (of course this topic was discussed a lot more eloquently and passionately featuring extremist cases of political "jargon" and other such wisecracks). but for the life of me, even though i had followed the federal election briefly on youtube and news.com.au, i sat there not able to even recall who the new australian prime minister was, let alone being able to discuss new rudd policy directions, budgets, platforms and all of that stuff. shame on me! right?
so now, there are times when i think that i'm totally out of my league. is it my fault that i use common sense as my primary platform of political interpretation? ultimately, i just think that theories should exist to help us make sense of reality. but if a theory doesn't do anything except confuse reality even more, then it really must be a crap theory even if it was theorized by some dead guy who was the founder of whatever institution that was world-renown for watever reason.
honestly. crap is crap. why can't we just leave it at that?
