March 23, 2005
So, I've decided the real name of this course should be Humanities Survey: Dangerous Minds. . .and I will leave it up to my adoring public to decide which minds the title refers to--the cool dead guys or y'all.
Kern's top ten list of great ideas and ideamakers:
10) whoever decided to eat the olive that soaked in the firepit all winter
9) that nameless person who realized how to leaven bread with wild yeast
8) the first people who figured out that if they both kept a promise, there could be peace, and the babies could live to make more
7) Margaret Mead
6) Michaelangelo Buonarotti
5) the woman who decided to teach her daughters how to survive childbirth--and inspired the rest of the tribe to pass on the knowledge
4) Irving Stone, who wrote great books about great minds--how cool is that!
3) the inventor of the bicycle--and the folks who figured out how to harness people power in other great fashions. . .like foot-operated well pumps and things which make us happier on a daily basis even though we don't always know it
2) the person who invented (discovered??) the pigment which became cobalt blue glass because it makes me happy
1) all of those people who perpetuate language, because it is what I do. . .and it makes me happy.
So, as to avoid pseudo-intellectualism, here's your shot to say something real--but no pseudo-rebellion or anger just to follow the flock.
posted by Mrs. Kern @ 8:34 AM
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4 Comments:
Now, Holden Caulfield--there's a classic ranter, if ever one was. . . and, yeah, Grant, the expression was great, even if no one else was awake to enjoy it!
"the only thing I can do is rant and rave,"
comes directly from Grant's comment: "my problems are real to me".
Perception is reality; even if it's very detached from factual reality, it's still real in your head.
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Here are some >>cool<< >>guys<< (what a discouraging expression?!):
- Petar Petrovic Njegos
- Vladika Nikolaj Velimirovic
- Vuk Karadzic
- Sveti Sava(Rastko Nemanjic)
- Nikola Tesla
- Mihajlo Pupin
- Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darell, brutally shot Pantera guitarist. He was not the great man to look at, but still his legend will live as long as heavy music in no matter what form exists. He was not doing things he was supposed to, but quite frankly he was doing things to oppose the mainstream, escape the pattern. He was honest, that is something that we should appreciate. It doesn't matter even if we become the best person in the world and not enjoy it, and as Dimebag said in the song WALK:
is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I’ve been
Belong
You can’t be something you’re not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time
RESPECT, WALK
WE WILL ALWAYS MISS YOU, DIME. THE HEAVY MUSIC IS NOT ANYMORE WHAT IT USED TO BE. REST IN PEACE, COWBOY, AND REMEMBER SERBIAN CREW THAT LISTEN TO YOUR AWESOME GUITAR WORK DURING ALL THOSE HORRIBLE 90'S.
And, of course, I have to respond about those starving children all around the world thing. I am not even a little but concerned about that people. However, I am more concerned about us, we are starving. They will maybe find something to eat, and make through the day, but we will, I am afraid starve to death. We are, unfortunately, blind to see the food that is in front of us. We will sooner reach the farthest galaxy in this universe than solve those starvation problems. That makes me happy in some way, because it shows the greatest curse of the humanity - GREED. Eternal competition to be better than the rest. The first will be the last, and the last will be the first - don't forget these words.
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