Human nurture

One thing I hear a lot of people say is "it's human nature." For example, socialism won't work because people will take advantage of the system, it's human nature. Wars are a constant in our life, it's human nature. Lying, stealing, corruption. Human nature.

I disagree. I think we should blame human nurture. By this I mean the way in which people are raised, in a very general sense. Everything around them, their parents, peers, media, literally everything from womb on out. We need to change culturally in order to reach this level where such things are seen as immature (or some other word...), rather than a natural part of life. I think we can do this... I have faith in it. Furthermore, our awareness of the impacts of human "nature" should only further our goal of reaching enlightenment as a species.... dang that sounds douchey. But I do think that should be our goal as a group. We can learn from the past, and take that into consideration in our actions.

Will we be perfect? Fuck no. But I think the pursuit of perfection is a good goal in itself.

I want to believe that this can happen. That by helping others, they can help themselves, and eventually, we will all help each other.

My crazy thought of the day is if everyone believed that it would work, then it would. It is simply the lack of faith in such a system that destroys it. Funny how that works. But then I wonder, is the one aspect of human nature, the one that can't be directed by human nurture, to doubt? Something like the Giver... placed in a perfect system, you start to question it, to rebel simply because. Maybe the question is, if all these things were gone from the world, would it be an interesting place to live in?

But that's going a little too far.

I could go on and on about this but I'll just stop here...

current project

Incubus- Summer Romance (Anti Gravity Love Song). Fuuuck.



Stupid blogger is cutting off the right half of the screen though... can't figure that out. whatevs.

Jobs.

I hate looking for a job. It's literally my least favorite thing to do. I hate working on resumes, I hate talking to recruiters, I hate dressing up and interviewing.

More than anything, though, I hate condensing myself into someone who is good for only one job. Folding myself into this 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper that tells you everything you need to know except the most important things. But baby, if you fold it right it might fly.

Seriously though, does anyone feel that specialization has gone too far? I'm anti-specialization. Definitely, the amount of knowledge out there is so vast that we need experts. Sure, I buy that. But should we hire based on your level of expertise, or on your potential? It all goes towards the structure of education.

More and more, higher education is the place where you go to pick up the specific skills needed for your field. Used to be that all a higher education did was made you more sophisticated, a critical and diverse thinker. Then, based on your ability as a thinker, you would be hired, and on the job you would gain the expertise needed in your field.

But now higher education is like everything else. A factory. Assembly line 1 produces musicians. Line 2 produces doctors. Etc.

Why not have the totality of our being inform our jobs? I feel like that still exists... somewhere. But I don't know where.

The business

I literally have like 6 things on my mind right now... simultaneously:

1) School. Duh. 4 classes.

2) Job- AAP Tutoring! Lesson planning. etc

3) Job hunting- for when I finally graduate. Career fairs, resumes, hunting through the endless jobs to find the ones you want....

4) Mship- shit be goin down!

5) Research- writin the paper I was supposed to finish over summer.

6) Keeping in touch!!

Was 2nd week always this busy?