Thursday, October 12, 2017

Discovery Sort Of?

I must have been a TV fanatic for such a very long time since the time my Grandmother bought our family the first TV Sylvania. It was an old refurbished TV set that we bought from the radio/tv repairman in Philippines, with my Grandmother's money! That was way back year 1972. My Grandmother doesn't like us watching at our neighbor's house (the first Barangay Captain in that 6th District who owns television, no one else has TV that period of time except them). The reception was blurred and the signal keeps getting off the air because when the antenna on the rooftop was hit by wind then signal is off. You know how windy in that area before when only few houses, only few housing facility outside of the wired military installations? Only few need not count them one by one. Anyway, I promised my Grandmother all what I have to do like household chores and whatever she likes me to do in order for her to buy  a television because my parents would rather concentrate on our education and watching TV would hinder our homework. Whatever, long and behold that you gain more knowledge from watching television and reading textbooks, comics, and newspapers rather than listening to the lessons of your teacher. However, keep your attention to your teacher's lesson because the teachers are the ones who are to make the grades on your continued participation in the class inside the school.

Seriously, if you are a wide reader, reading encyclopedia everyday without learning from your teacher and you have a computer that has the tons of knowledge and then you are to take the online test required to pass a college exam test you will probably pass with highest grades/marks than learning from your teachers/professors in schools and university. The information in Encyclopedia and Computers are vast and tons of knowledge if you know how to read and understand them. Generalized knowledge. It's not that your teachers didn't do their job properly but inside the classroom you are only allowed certain aspect of the lesson plan with limited amount of time and the barriers of noise, students making annoying distractions, and so much disturbance that you can't concentrate. Anyway, my opinion is just mine. Educating yourself need instructions from teachers and certifications are much needed if you attend schools and University. Besides, you have to socialize with other people. Humans must socialize to gain importance and if you have ambition to become a Sociologist (or Psychiatrist and Psychologist) the most important aspect of such occupation is dealing with social skills, interacting with people whether you like them or not. Humans must have interactions with the same humans because that's the way it is, it's the norm, normal way of life. We cannot be recluse or be secluded away from the group of other people.

The movie THE CIRCLE tends to encircle group of people with one objective or multiple objectives? It's a group of humans trying to make themselves available in the IT or information technology so that they can be of help to the outsiders(?) or just because they knew these people from their inner circle? Whatever, the movie story revolves around Mae Holland who was chosen to be transparent because of what "she did." She had stolen a kayak that night and had kayaking through the dark waters and then the kayak capsized and then the rescue team rescued her from eminent danger. The cost of rescue for such juvenile delinquent activity? The transparency is just a punishment sort of.  It could be part of the Circle's code and what the worker needs to pay after as part of the contract.

It's the same with those celebrities verbal  abusing the leaders of their country. There's democracy in America that's right but verbal abuse and verbal harassment is also a crime so one of those days I think those "bad celebrities will also become "transparent" and they will have to be accounted for. They will have to wear "tracker bracelets." Some of them have tracking bracelets already! Some of them are already in prisons with the rest of the prisoners and they are allowed to wear beautiful clothes, shoes and jewelries. You can't see them out of prison or right there in your community. But you can see them on TV. I think some of them are loving the treatment in prison anyway, they thought they are safer there than from outside the normal way of life. Why they are in prison? They committed crimes and they have to pay and serve the Government by being there. Too good to be true? At one point in time Martha was in prison for a crime she committed. The whole world was in shock! I think when she came out from prison she looked younger and much better good-looking than who she was previously. Weird prison? At least she discovered who are her true real friends in showbiz.

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