Currently listening to: Miles Davis - "so what"


Today has been hectic, as has this week, and so will the weeks to come as things wind down to finals at UNSW...that's University of New South Wales for all those who aren't with the local acronyms...hell, it could mean Undercover No-Name Socialist Workers for all I know...

But really, that thing isn't my bag baby...honest! Yay capitalism!

As you can tell from the little html thing I added in at the top (okay, I lifted it off another site, but last time I checked, online kleptomania wasn't a crime...), I'm chillin' with Miles Davis right now...it's classic old jazz, but it's still so good...why is it that we are so fond of talking about things in the past, and when we do, we think of them in such a positive light? Or at least, things always seem better than they did at the time? "The good old days"..."Fond old memories"...that kinda train of thought...

On that same note, a friend at lunch the other day told me that not only can we dream of the future, but we can also dream of (and perhaps sometimes become trapped in) the past. At the time, we were referring to girls in our pasts, and that somehow things with so-and-so MIGHT still have a minute chance of POSSIBLY working out, and IF we got REALLY lucky and the timing was JUST RIGHT, THEN the old flames that we never had would be ours...but I'm actually referring to something only marginally more important...our humanity.

Legalists, or people who believe that the rules of law are necessary to keep society in order, believe that man's nature is inherently bad. That's why we need all these laws to keep us in check, to keep our society on the 'right path'. However on the flipside, within Confucian schools of thought, all people are inherently good, and all men were born good natured, inherently positive.

Now I'm usually a pessimist, but if Confucius were still here, I think he would have liked Miles Davis too...