Monday, March 12, 2007
I have been slowly and dangerously simmering with this for the whole day.
WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IS LOUSIER THAN OTHER FACULTIES IN UNIVERSITY?
WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK.
Bloody hell... I'm sure there are plenty of arts students who can enter other stupid shitty faculty that only use math or sci to talk. Hey, even if you can ace your stupid engineering paper, doesnt mean you can even pass a literature paper. WTF.
Tell me, so what if you know all the formula to calculate some stupid minute particle in the air that is invisble? Yes, you will know about that particle, but do you know yourself?
At least in arts, you learn about emotions and feelings of people. You study about feelings and you'll get an idea that there is more depth to how someone seems to be showing outwardly. And within this probe, you realise that you can understand yourself better. Why sometimes you do the things you do. ALL this, allows you to find your own humanity inside you. If not, you're just a formula, theory gulping machine and you are seriously de-humanised.
It's really no use grasping all those stupid concepts and not finding out more about yourself. Yes, it will probably get you a job but is this all there is to life? You're just gonna be a worker ant to your country? Happy toiling and working aimlessly, unknowingly then.
But seriously, screw this country. They want to promote arts, but the stigma of doing arts is so widespread. Even those who have an interest in arty courses are running off to business or science. Where at least they know they can have a more secure job after uni.
Seriously, I applaud those majoring in lit or theatre studies. Because I'd like to do that, but I ask myself everyday, if I have the balls to do it. And because I should stop being such an idealistic and be more realist, I fucking dunno. Its a matter of survival vs interest.
I want a secure job, so that I can earn a certain amount of money, to look after my loved ones, and to give myself a good life. At the expense of my true interest? Is it worth it? Is it a good gamble to follow your interest and not get any money and then regretting? I don't think so.
So often, the cruel, unblinking, relentless capitalism crushes us flat. And all of us have dollar signs for eyes.
This is a hellish world we are living in.
posted at [11:02 PM]