scotch tasting: a bittersweet finish
Who are we? What does it mean to be human, to be an individual and to be part of a collective? What is love and can it be egalitarian or must it be a painful disaster of passion? Is life even worth living? What is our relationship with the earth? In fact are we in contractual agreement with nature and does it rule us or is it our inherited rightful domain? Is science a corrupt institutional religion of its own or a wondrous example of our mastery of the universe through Reason – and is there any significant meaning or God who has left us to prove ourselves here? Is it simply a hedonistic palace of pleasure that we waste while ruminating over why, what and how? Where am I situated within myself? Am I myself at all or am I an explosive phantasmagoria of impersonal neural accidents within? Within my body, my brain or all of the above?
This course (GLS 800 & 801), in all its glory of interdisciplinarian chaos – has led me to less conclusive understanding of anything – but at the same time open a staggering multiplicity of new ways of looking at things via author after author after author. I don’t believe it was any God or Chaos or prederminate destiny or even an entirely autonomous Free Will that brought us together but rather an innumerable complex string of personal events and personality probability factors that collided to allow us this happy and rewarding event. A rather sentimental and tearful wave hit me last night as I looked at each and everyone of my classmates and teachers while we boisterously discussed this and that with our individual gesticulations of character. I don’t want it to be over! Thank you!
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