Totally Sensible Future Plans
Today I remembered an incident at university where we had some kind of argument in a folklore studies seminar. It’s not even important what it was about, basically I said that you can get an idea of a nation’s view on itself by taking into account its TV programs and this stupid guy argued that TV wasn’t „real“, so you wouldn’t see what people „really“ did or said, to which I responded that this wasn’t the point, because the point was that TV shows you, among other things, what a nation would like to be like and therefore is totally helpful in learning about a nation’s self-perception.
Back then I knew that I was right and that he was just too stupid to get my point, but it was my first year at university and sitting in class with thirty other students, none of which I do remember said anything to strengthen my point of view, I let it go pretty quickly.
Now, if I were back at school, I’d just take him down. I totally have to get back to university and scare the hell out of freshmen. Fun, fun, fun.