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kyrasantae"We've structured this course around a realist point of view."
- So does that mean that the course will be more difficult for those with other points of view?
- Isn't that saying then, for best results, you must think as a realist whether you believe it or not?
- Is that not indirect pressure to embrace realism as the sole truth?
"'Idealist, realist, transnationalist, "dependencyist" -- which are you?' Did you think about it? If I asked you to hand it in, will you?" Amit: "No, because I didn't write it down." "Then you can't hand it in!...If you were to answer this question again at the end of the year you might have a different answer -- right now you probably don't have it all figured out yet."
- It is really [an exercise] so obviously expected to be written down?
- Does she contradict herself by wanting us to have an answer right now but saying that there's no way we could have it "figured out yet"?
- But must we take one of those choices?
"If you were an idealist and you say ' I don't agree with President Bush attacking Iraq' but then say 'Canada needs to have more control' then you are contradicting yourself! Don't do that!!!"
- Rules are man-made; worldviews are man-made. If there are exceptions to every rule then can't worldviews have contradictions?
[- Rather as statements of one's ideology, is it possible to consider the two statements above to be motivated by nationalism?]
"You see we've set up the IA process in a modernist perspective... It can be really good to have a topic related to your family heritage or something, but when you try to do that, you've always got a preconceived answer and an axe to grind and you're trying to pick the facts to get your point across and you do a bad job of it! It's not doing to work!"
- Is, then, postmodernism fundamentally wrong because we are accused to being incapable of its execution?
- Is, then, postmodernism flat-out unacceptable?
"I'm always stopping you because you guys keeps getting emotions mixed up with your arguments. You cannot do that. I stop you because if I let you go on you're going to screw up, and you will only ever get 6 out of 20! 6 out of 20! 6 out of 20! if you go 'should've' and 'could've' and get your ideals in there! 6 out of 20! Always!...I don't just do this to you -- I stop my colleagues like this too."
- If we cannot speak our minds and speculate, we will have said goodbye to our own minds. May they rest in peace.
You have been stripped of your own world and given one not your own / you keep on fighting to defend the last grain of what was / where there knew peace now there knows war / Unending are the cries from your tortured voice! / You shall fight bravely on forever
- So does that mean that the course will be more difficult for those with other points of view?
- Isn't that saying then, for best results, you must think as a realist whether you believe it or not?
- Is that not indirect pressure to embrace realism as the sole truth?
"'Idealist, realist, transnationalist, "dependencyist" -- which are you?' Did you think about it? If I asked you to hand it in, will you?" Amit: "No, because I didn't write it down." "Then you can't hand it in!...If you were to answer this question again at the end of the year you might have a different answer -- right now you probably don't have it all figured out yet."
- It is really [an exercise] so obviously expected to be written down?
- Does she contradict herself by wanting us to have an answer right now but saying that there's no way we could have it "figured out yet"?
- But must we take one of those choices?
"If you were an idealist and you say ' I don't agree with President Bush attacking Iraq' but then say 'Canada needs to have more control' then you are contradicting yourself! Don't do that!!!"
- Rules are man-made; worldviews are man-made. If there are exceptions to every rule then can't worldviews have contradictions?
[- Rather as statements of one's ideology, is it possible to consider the two statements above to be motivated by nationalism?]
"You see we've set up the IA process in a modernist perspective... It can be really good to have a topic related to your family heritage or something, but when you try to do that, you've always got a preconceived answer and an axe to grind and you're trying to pick the facts to get your point across and you do a bad job of it! It's not doing to work!"
- Is, then, postmodernism fundamentally wrong because we are accused to being incapable of its execution?
- Is, then, postmodernism flat-out unacceptable?
"I'm always stopping you because you guys keeps getting emotions mixed up with your arguments. You cannot do that. I stop you because if I let you go on you're going to screw up, and you will only ever get 6 out of 20! 6 out of 20! 6 out of 20! if you go 'should've' and 'could've' and get your ideals in there! 6 out of 20! Always!...I don't just do this to you -- I stop my colleagues like this too."
- If we cannot speak our minds and speculate, we will have said goodbye to our own minds. May they rest in peace.
You have been stripped of your own world and given one not your own / you keep on fighting to defend the last grain of what was / where there knew peace now there knows war / Unending are the cries from your tortured voice! / You shall fight bravely on forever
