After reading Orwells piece on clarity and the other sites added for tomorrows lecture I found that certainty is something that seems to be fleeting in terms of what is being addressed. The media is a great example. It shows how little information can be given, both with Orwells selected uses of words by government officials and with our age of photography. Both types are to me forms of lies and manipulations showing that we(or they-institutions) are seeming to be stuck in the past. Not just in there attempts to manipulate the status quo, they are re-enforcing an old ideology of using the status quo to act out on their behalf to try and intstill this ideology. I ask what is the latent functions present here? What are the costs? Are we merely ponds in this game of global chess? Do we all know about this happening? Are we all this naive? Or are we just being bombarded with these irregularities in hopes that we have to ask which way is "up"? Whats a lie and whats truth? Is the line between sense and nonsense being shaded and blurred so finding a place or side to stand doen't matter anymore? Maybe thats a little over the top.....for now.

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Announcement II-21-07

Folks,

  I've added another very interesting website for discussion next week. Please see the main course site http://cust100-notes.blogspot.com/ for details. Hope your break is going well!

Cheers & Best,

Michael

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the play

Hey,

I managed to get to the play and I felt that it was an ideal one to watch seeing that the props used in connection with the play were represented very well. There were so many examples of indirect discourse from the slide show to the umbrellas, and the ambience I felt being in an older theatre to reinforce the time in which the story took place. Was this a fluke or was the choosing of the theatre especially made in connection with the time the story was taking place?

Thanks,

Mike T

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