Quick Updates on Life in General... a little on the edgy side

News Years approaches fast. Christmas went by and did not feel much like Christmas at all. This is a absolutely secular and Marxist culture and the religious element of any westrern holiday is absolutely missing. This may sound refreshing to many Americans who would like nothing better than to remove the spiritual aspect of Christmas form the day. I read that this year in Seattle it was really overboard in the area of businesses and offices banning that evil, spiteful phrase which incites such bitterness in people... Merry Christmas. While here, in this atheistic society, everyone wishes you a Merry Christmas and they do not worry about all the alledged baggage the term has. It had gotten to the point with me in Seattle I felt absolutely brow beaten. I was so mortified (even though I was an atheist and still do not believe in the virgin birth or any of the miracles of the Bible) to simply say Merry Christmas to some America hating liberal there who destested anythiing to do with Christianity on the basis of...what? I do not even know anymore and I am bored with the subject all of a sudden. All those bastards ought to quit their jobs and forsake their Volvos and come here and live and see just how a society bereft of any religious values whatsoever has excelled in all areas of life both morally, politically and ecomnically.

I am teaching a computer class now. Power Point. Nothing gets done as is typical and so I am killing time doing the same thing the students do which is typically anythng but the lesson at hand. So, for the next two hours I will sit here and surf the net and wait for a student to ask me something which is simply not going to happen. I have to come to accpet that there is some radical difference in the way Western people and Asian people learn, but I am not an expert on the matter and do not feel like speculating right now. Most of my students regardless of their age simply do not want to learn Englsih or anythng else for that matter. They want to play and waste time and become rich CEOs later. If I ask what is a CEO is and what one does they have no clue, but they are going to be one, and they will not even have to study to do that. They will come to class (or maybe not), play and sleep and talk on cell phones and then one day ebcome a CEO somewhere without ever having to actually work and "climb the ladder" to acheive that end. And that may well be true, if they have an uncle or friend who works in the upper levels of a corporation here. The whole system here is beyond my understanding. I never will understand it and any opinion I express right now will only sound sound cynical and xenophobic. So, I will let it rest.

In fact, I do not even feel like writing another word.

10:22 AM - 12/29/2005 - post comment