Since our class days have officially ended i decided to post my feelings about the class as a whole. This class was the first time I ever blogged and also the first philosophy class I have ever taken. I would say that I kind of enjoyed blogging, but found it to be a pain in the ass the last half of this semester. I enjoyed it when we were reading the Greek texts because I found that very interesting and much easier to understand and relate to. After the Greek texts, blogging became much more of a hassle. It was a struggle to even read the material, as i had to take one of those b12 energy drinks just to make it through sometimes. Obviously it is much easier to write about something you have an interest in, and when the Greek texts ended, so did my interest. The Irigaray and other texts that followed were very difficult to understand, making it much harder to have some clear thoughts to put down on the blog. Maybe its my phallocentric bias speaking but I could not stand reading about the gender equality texts like Irigaray. I think i like this phallocentric economy that we live in, maybe it is because I am a male and have no clue what it is like to be a female. Fine, I can accept that because I think the phallocentrism has worked out pretty well so far overall, maybe it has taken a little long to accomodate the female gender, but we are getting there. It is kind of like the natural order of things post ruth made. Why worry about things we cannot really control, I mean is it even worth discussing phallocentrism because there is not plausible way I can think of to change the whole entire order of our global society. Why not let things just play out and see what happens? Things tend to have a funny way of working out in the end.
Final Thoughts on Class
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Nick, I was going to write a blog post of my reflections on the class as well but I feel that you have summed up most of the feeling that I had towards this class during the past semester. It was also my first time blogging and philosophy course. I found the Greek texts to be very interesting and much easier to blog about instead of the later reading of Irigaray and Bulter. I'm not sure if that was due to the fact that it was easier to follow along with the characters of the Greek plays or that Irigaray was trying to make me angry on purpose. It seemed like Irigaray wanted to "stick it to the man" the whole time. But as Professor Long said the whole time she does have PhD's so she probably knew exactly what she was talking about. But even still, it always left me wondering if she had a husband, and if so, good luck to him.
But in all, the class gave a better understanding of how politics work not just in government and Washington, but with regards to everyday conversation and action.