Figuring It Out

I figured it out! I know what I want to teach. All this time I tried figuring out what I wanted to do. I knew I want to teach, but it was the object that confused me. Maybe I struggled with it because I didn't know what exactly I was looking for. Was I too intrigued with the mystery of being surprised? I honestly believe it was the idea of letting the muse teach me something. It came to me today. I was always mesmerized by the idea of High School. I didn't really realize it before. It wasn't until I began reading novels that encapsulated the high school scene that I opened my eyes. I'm just stuck on if I want to join the state or the private sector. I don't know. But I know what I want to teach and who too.

    I've been reading New York Times' #1 Best Sellers' List Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Most of the reviews I've read were a bit pessimistic about the style and characterization of the characters. As far as dialogue is concerned, however, there is no doubt as to her style: she is definitely gifted. I too have a problem with her characters. They don't match. They don't seem as a real as I want them to be. I ultimately want to teach high school students for the reason that eluded Meyer, mainly that she didn't understand the students. She wasn't able to dig into the minds of the students. In a sense, I'm going to use them, my students, to write a novel. That is my ultimate concern, to write.

    Another famous writer that I admire most of all is Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is known as the psychiatrist. Nietzsche himself said that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist he would ever listen to. The best way to write the best novel is to actually live in it. How can we expect the muse to whisper secretes if we are not in the same room? Another great author is Laura Kasischke. She wrote an electrifying novel which was made into a movie entitled The Life before Her Eyes. The author does an excellent job at showing the dilemma and anguish of the character. She also utilizes foreshadowing as a valid form at fluidly moving along the story.

New-school Politics

It isn't a new thing to conjecture what the new-school is all about. Everyday I read the paper I find some ominous idea replete in this new school. There is either a reinvention of what we call a semblance of hope or some contrived plan to maintain the status quo. I know that I said I was going to maintain this group discussion for religious ideas, specifically a reformed ideal, but let's get real--Reformed ideas stem into the political realm. Though I don't agree with Roussau completely (that man is the noble savage), he is right that man is a political animal. Okay, maybe not the animal part, but he is right that we are politically inclined to think in like manner. I've recently joined the Libertarian Party for reason only I can explain for myself; however I am inclined to say that we (LPs) are motivated by liberty and freedom. Notwithstanding my reasons, there is a blog in which the writer, Bob Barr, the nominee for President in the Libertarian Party, expresses his irritation with the new bailouts of Wall Street, explicating them as egregious and presumptious. Here is the article. If you are as irritated as I am, please respond.