Sunday, November 28, 2010
Not Another Annual Appeal
In the spirit of the non-profit world I work for now, I am making an appeal to the teeny number of readers of this blog. I will not ask for contributions but I implore you, as this blog's lifespan is bound to be shorter than average, please, please, please follow this closely instead, or in parallel, if you absolutely need to.
Monday, October 11, 2010
QotD #2
It's already October of 2010 and I watched Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" for the first time this afternoon.
In a societal culture driven by fear, Yoda's pearls of wisdom ring true:
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Google "hate crimes" and report back why people are so afraid of the unknown/different/nonconformist. Why must we stress how different we are from the rest, and therefore, better than them? We all do it, semi-consciously or not. There is no excuse.
In a societal culture driven by fear, Yoda's pearls of wisdom ring true:
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Google "hate crimes" and report back why people are so afraid of the unknown/different/nonconformist. Why must we stress how different we are from the rest, and therefore, better than them? We all do it, semi-consciously or not. There is no excuse.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Multi-You
As this blog continues to stray from a narrow development economics path, I feel compelled to consciously justify my choices for blog topics. As many of you out there, I am not immune to having many interests and keeping up with several of them. I am thoroughly, truly, madly, and deeply fascinated by people who manage to specialize in a certain field and follow through with it, making it their career and life calling. My own inability to control my self-diagnosed ADD has given me an insight into the multi-layered, multifaceted ways to even begin to discuss development economics. People always ask me what DevEc means to me. To me, it is a blend of cultural, social, basic micro- and macroeconomic, environmental, political, military, scientific, humanist, purposeful, engaging and informative understanding of the world on an individual, case-by-case, as well as global scale. How can we begin to search for solutions if we don't even grasp the nature of the problem? What if the problem is only a mere difference in all of the aforementioned characteristics derived from an artificially created divide we have drawn between OECD and non-OECD political entities?
Well, what does it mean to you?
Well, what does it mean to you?
Life is beautiful, albeit overwhelming
Data surrounds us. We swim in it, breathe in it. We socialize with it, share, discuss, fight over it.
The question is, how do we organize it? Information, just like life itself, can be very beautiful if looked through a reflecting prism, at a particular angle. Moreover, overflowing stats taken aside, organization can be creative and liberating.
With the following TED talk I hope that you will leave this blog inspired and start looking at the usual daily news chewed and thrown at you in a brighter, more color-coordinated light.
The question is, how do we organize it? Information, just like life itself, can be very beautiful if looked through a reflecting prism, at a particular angle. Moreover, overflowing stats taken aside, organization can be creative and liberating.
With the following TED talk I hope that you will leave this blog inspired and start looking at the usual daily news chewed and thrown at you in a brighter, more color-coordinated light.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Dolce far niente is a pain
August has been tough. Not even the seemingly endless summer nights, the pleasant idleness, the purposeful detachment from the outer world. Not only the life-changing, mind-boggling (or so everyone keeps on saying) decision to live with someone, to work somewhere and to dream, want, need something completely different.
Whatever that something may be, I am yet to find out.
I have contemplated canceling the blog probably at least once a month since its creation not too long ago. I have waited long enough for a revelation of sorts in what direction I should take it. I suppose no one has higher expectations from a 22 and 1/2 year-old college graduate than the graduate herself. I have decided to continue writing albeit more rarely than desired. I almost cannot believe I am admitting it, but I miss this medium of expression in a twisted way. It reminds me of my masochist paper writing during the nth all-nighter I have managed to pull off, caffeine and drug free.
The current post serves as a space-filler, as a re-evaluation if you wish. Feel free to let me know how disappointed you are I haven't covered the Gulf oil spill or that I have been silent in regards to my Dantesque experience reading Jeff Sachs. I may even be open to criticism.
Whatever that something may be, I am yet to find out.
I have contemplated canceling the blog probably at least once a month since its creation not too long ago. I have waited long enough for a revelation of sorts in what direction I should take it. I suppose no one has higher expectations from a 22 and 1/2 year-old college graduate than the graduate herself. I have decided to continue writing albeit more rarely than desired. I almost cannot believe I am admitting it, but I miss this medium of expression in a twisted way. It reminds me of my masochist paper writing during the nth all-nighter I have managed to pull off, caffeine and drug free.
The current post serves as a space-filler, as a re-evaluation if you wish. Feel free to let me know how disappointed you are I haven't covered the Gulf oil spill or that I have been silent in regards to my Dantesque experience reading Jeff Sachs. I may even be open to criticism.
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