learning!

i learned cool stuff today about fascism! i am taking a political science class called "peasant politics," and this week we talked about a small and not very well known fascist uprising among small farmers in france. This was in contrast to general idea, both scholarly and general, that most peasant revolutions are leftist. BUT...the neat part was drawing distinctions between the types of peasants that participated in each. the fascist peasants were landowners with hired worker, but the poorer peasants, the ones who worked for them, were being simultaneously recruited by the communists! Therefore, it is my conclusion that it not the situation that influences which way a revolution will go, but what "type" of people, in this case, what type of "peasant" is participating in such uprising.
we talked about charismatic leadership as key indicator of fascism. i thought that was pretty neat, because the discussion was turned to MLK and his religious rhetoric and eventually, his refusal to adopt any view other than his own....mildly fascist? who really knows. but it's been published in the leadership literature and i just think it's so neat!

film noir?

it would be kind of neat if life was kind of like film noir. it would be all mysterious, and very small insignificant things would be super important because they are "art". yeah. let's live life that way from now on.
i had a video chat in ichat with dan and bryan tonight, and bryan apparently thinks this photo looks particularly film noir. i don't, because its in color. if it were so, you would only see one color and the rest would be shades of gray. like you would see only the red streaks in my hair and the red couch, or just my green shirt...maybe i will do that in photoshop....that would be pretty cool. i should ask greg how to do that, he does it all the time.
i realized yesterday that i need to start writing in my journal more, and possibly blogging more. Life is far to stressful right now, not taking advantages of such outlets would be silly of me. I have noticed however that this blog has been dominated by expressions of my disdain about something really stupid, or venting about how retarded boys (or, one particular boy, whom i hope to never have to deal with again) are.

photobooth

yay !



i loves me my new mac. here is why.