Its midnight and I have half a dozen papers left to grade before I can go to sleep, so this'll be short. I saw Wicked yesterday. It's fantastic and deserving of all the accolades it's received. It is rather disturbing, however. In a very postcolonial rewrite, it defamilarizes The Wizard of Oz in, at times, uncomfortable ways. It challenges the notion that morals are as absolute as I like to believe, as I know to believe.
And the comparisons that could be made between the wizard and our president were not flattering...I'm not sure I want to make them, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. The idea of creating an enemy/situation to distract from his mediocrity. I live in that uncomfortable place between apathy regarding politics and being well-informed. I have a vague notion of the goings-on, but not a firm grasp (who has time to read all the news and discern the truth?). Still, I care and have opinions (rather dangerously held for one not so up on situations). I feel awkward disagreeing (or even just commenting) amongst the politically charged (extremely liberal) conversations on campus, but I still lean towards participating because I rarely have facts to back up my beliefs (again, dangerous). Well, no time to dwell (my problem in the first place), papers beckon.
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Yeah, I hate politics too. I prefer just to ignore every conversation that surrounds that subject. Maybe not the most mature way of handling it, but I hate debate.
Yay, I know I shouldn't be so uninformed, but its so involved just worrying about my own little corner of the world, that its hard to participate in the big picture.
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