Hershey's; Unchanged since 1899!

hmmmm.... interesting...
"...and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Why are we predisposed to warrant the accumluation of experiences that will contribute to our own sufferage? Why are we will voluntary martyrs (and why do I supplement rhetoric that speaks for itself with rhetoric that will enhance its already apparent meaning lol) to the cause of self-affliction? Apparently history can be used to demonstrate why we are unwilling to change; because it is harder to reconform than to conform. It is a phenomenon that is not only applicable to nations and governments, but also to each individual experience. And I guess all of these individual experiences make up a nation which incites the arguably necessary formulation of government, which is a pattern that permeates not only the case of our obsession with voluntary self-suffering. We can extrapolize about virtually everything. Our beliefs and theories about government are essentially a scaled-down version of how ew view ourselves. Which is very off-topic, but still very relevant!

Anyway, I guess this line from the Declaration of Indepedence can partially be interpreted as an imploration to overcome our fear of change and accept the fact that maybe, just maybe we need to.

Also, I think I have a love-hate relationship with my major. I love it because I'm learning about of the propaganda that marketers use to seduce consumers, the behind-the-scenes side of advertising and the market-based economy that simultaneously corrupts and enhances the eocnomic arena. But I find myself intrigued by it and enthusiastic about learning about it not becuase i want to pursue a career in any of these fields, but because I want to cultivate defense mechanisms. So why should I major in a field that I want to shield myself against? ugh! I love learning. I hate learning. I love being educated. I hate being educated. I would unconditionally love being educated if people didn't direct the psychological and intellectual recources that education enables them to ahve for manipulative purposes. I love ranting about how I possibly hate education even though I love it. I love laughing at the irony of me ranting about hating education when it is the force that enables me do so. Ahhh. I truly understand why people love math, computer science, natural science, etc.etc.etc..... because they just ARE. There are new developments and new theorems that can be discovered and tossed around, but their sole purpose isn't malicious.....unless people make make them malicious. ahhh.

I want to fall in love with my major. Which means that i want to be able to devote myself whole-heartedly to it and embrace it with every inch of my being without having to second-guess whether or not it is something that I want to be a part of me, because that is essentially what "falling in love" means, right? You fall "into" something/someone and you let that something/someone fall "into" you. It is really a symbiotic phenomenon this love thing is. It is completely consensual.

I think it's amazing how people interpret other people and how people view innate value........ I think that the paradox of the concept of "innate" is that it really is subjective. Maybe I am generalizing and maybe my theory must be taken with a grain of salt, but I think that it is relevant for the most part....
Photographers may view everyone as having intrinsic photogenic value. If they aren't photogenic then they may not be worth paying attention to.
Doctors may view everyone has having intrinisc medical value. They may catageorize everyone based on his or her ability to be viewed as a specimen. From this point of view, "patients" with rare diseases may be more "valuable" than healthy individuals.
Teachers may value students who are more intellectually apt than other students.
Athletic coaches may value those who are athletically endowed.
Marketers see everyone as a consumer.
Psychologists see everyone as a brain.
A priest sees everyone as having spiritual worth.
Are any of those value systems more right then the next? Is there one "right" way to view the worl, humanity, after which all of these other interpretations of value are secondary?
Intrinsic value then becomes a paradoxical matter of perspective, right?
This is basically why we "should" all strive to "Surrendor to Love".... because you never know what is going on inside another person, how they choose to view and interpret the world, waht they value, how they are "using" you. Traditionally I think that to "use" someone has been connated negatively when, in fact, we all "use" people. It is just a matter of how we choose to do so.

The surrendor to love is so great. It is really the only thing that we can do. It is the only force that won't let you done. It is the matter from which God is made of.

...Everyone has innate value. Everyone has something to offer to the world. ...
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makesus more alive than the others.”
~Martha Graham


...so relevant, so important, so rejuvinating.


love.