I am firstly going to say that I am not an avid viewer of Question Time. But, with the media this week surrounding the event, that is Nick Griffin appearing on the show, I decided to take a look.
I must say I found the whole experience very, very uncomfortable. I know that many people are against the BNP, but he was invited on to the show for a reason. So, LET HIM SPEAK. Why on earth invite this man to speak, if you do not want to listen. It felt more like a stoning then an interview session. The audience threw comments at him, very mature comments I must add, (sarcastically) such as "Dick Griffin". I would like to know how these people go to be in the audience, and if there is not a screening process then that is ridiculous. I tuned in, wanting to see an interview but was instead confronted with a free-for-all of low rate people with low rate opinions mouthing off! The majority of questions asked were about immigrant policies, which, fair enough is a huge factor, BUT, I wanted to hear more from him. I wanted to know what makes the man tick! Toward the end of the show the presenter stated he had not wanted the whole show to be about the BNP, and it was expected but I really do despise the way the audience were let to just ask similar questions again and again. It was more of a personal attack on the man then a serious interview and I found the whole thing a let down. He got two seats in Europe, so clearly he is doing something to please some people out there but we will never know what if, when he does eventually go on interview shows he is ridiculed and not given a chance to speak.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Psychobabble, Sex and a lot of Penis!
Today's lecture was, to say the least, enlightening. I think I found most interesting learning about the"reptile" part of the brain. The "hippocamus", is the part of the brain that lights up, so to speak, when the brain encounters images of rage, blood, sex and even the colour red! It is referred to as the reptile part of the brain because reptiles have a constant need to be territorial and fight for survival, hence their complicated traits such as a chameleon changing the colour of it's skin to blend in with it's background. This leads me on to the Odepus complex. Freud claimed that boys have the urge to kill their father's and sleep with their mothers (he tried to understand the brain using literature). Apparently it is a territorial thing. Quite hard to imagine happenening in modern times but it is true that males become very territorial when it comes to females, they feel the urge to be the dominant gender and feel demascunilised when the authority is taken away from them. Typical blokes!
I find the idea that women suffer from penis envy, that is that women are just males without a penis and therefore are lacking in the most important part, very frustrating. Although women have come very far in terms of being able to work and vote etc, this theory being reiterated throughout classrooms all over the world enrages me because it reinforces the idea that women have been seen as the lesser important gender, this should have never been mentioned at all! Men! This view I think I have gained from studying sociology. I envy Simone de Beauvoir, and her views on males. No, I am not a crazy feminist, however I do believe that men chat a load of bollocks a lot of the time. In her book, "The Second Sex", she aruges that men have MADE women the 'other' sex. They have put a false aura of mystery around females and use this to avoid understanding them or their problems. This theory can be related to race, religion and class but is more obvious in terms of gender. She aruges that men have made women feel a "deviation of the normal" and that males feel women are only pretend men, trying to "emulate normality", she felt that this assumption must be set aside for the stereotype to be forgotten.
Freud's theories still have major influence today though which proves they are viewed as strong. Advertiser's use the Freudian idea that showing people a sexual image will excite them and make them buy something, such as the Cadbury's Flake advert shown in the lecture, she is biting into a Flake and Chris said it was referring her to biting a penis. It takes me back to my sociology lecture's again where we were taught that women are shown products in magazines on models, and they are shown in sexually provocative ways sometimes with males, which makes us as an audience think that if we go out and buy them we will get everything we see in the advert. The Century of the Self, the century of self-preoccupation, a century of repressed and frustrated love..Freudian Love do ring true, however I do NOT agree with his views on women, it seems he just hates women! Arsehole!
I find the idea that women suffer from penis envy, that is that women are just males without a penis and therefore are lacking in the most important part, very frustrating. Although women have come very far in terms of being able to work and vote etc, this theory being reiterated throughout classrooms all over the world enrages me because it reinforces the idea that women have been seen as the lesser important gender, this should have never been mentioned at all! Men! This view I think I have gained from studying sociology. I envy Simone de Beauvoir, and her views on males. No, I am not a crazy feminist, however I do believe that men chat a load of bollocks a lot of the time. In her book, "The Second Sex", she aruges that men have MADE women the 'other' sex. They have put a false aura of mystery around females and use this to avoid understanding them or their problems. This theory can be related to race, religion and class but is more obvious in terms of gender. She aruges that men have made women feel a "deviation of the normal" and that males feel women are only pretend men, trying to "emulate normality", she felt that this assumption must be set aside for the stereotype to be forgotten.
Freud's theories still have major influence today though which proves they are viewed as strong. Advertiser's use the Freudian idea that showing people a sexual image will excite them and make them buy something, such as the Cadbury's Flake advert shown in the lecture, she is biting into a Flake and Chris said it was referring her to biting a penis. It takes me back to my sociology lecture's again where we were taught that women are shown products in magazines on models, and they are shown in sexually provocative ways sometimes with males, which makes us as an audience think that if we go out and buy them we will get everything we see in the advert. The Century of the Self, the century of self-preoccupation, a century of repressed and frustrated love..Freudian Love do ring true, however I do NOT agree with his views on women, it seems he just hates women! Arsehole!
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.
Hegel's dialect looks to explain how there are no objects, only change. He coined a triad theory to explain this.
When something happens it is "thesis", he then said that there must be an opposition to it, and it brings about the creation of its "antithesis" which eventually results in a "synthesis"- the final result of the clash between the thesis and antithesis.
For example lets look at the class struggle. The ruling class will take the place of the thesis. They have the power, money and control. The working class, the oppressed, take the place of the antithesis as they are the opposite. As a result, the working class revolt against the ruling class and we have a revolution, the synthesis.
In a historical context we could place the thesis as The Ancient Greek State. The antithesis (the opposition) would be the criminals and barbarians or the other State that does not approve of the Greek State. The synthesis (the outcome) is war.
The synthesis is however not always the final outcome. As new phases may begin that creates additional change. But his theory is that change happens in a process of three, an idea, an opposing idea, and the clash between the two.
In more modern terms, we could view the thesis as a home team, the antithesis as a away team, and the synthesis would be a football match. The result of the match may mean one team wins, but the additional matches that they will play to get further up in the league are new phases, this one match is only one phase in the process of change.
When something happens it is "thesis", he then said that there must be an opposition to it, and it brings about the creation of its "antithesis" which eventually results in a "synthesis"- the final result of the clash between the thesis and antithesis.
For example lets look at the class struggle. The ruling class will take the place of the thesis. They have the power, money and control. The working class, the oppressed, take the place of the antithesis as they are the opposite. As a result, the working class revolt against the ruling class and we have a revolution, the synthesis.
In a historical context we could place the thesis as The Ancient Greek State. The antithesis (the opposition) would be the criminals and barbarians or the other State that does not approve of the Greek State. The synthesis (the outcome) is war.
The synthesis is however not always the final outcome. As new phases may begin that creates additional change. But his theory is that change happens in a process of three, an idea, an opposing idea, and the clash between the two.
In more modern terms, we could view the thesis as a home team, the antithesis as a away team, and the synthesis would be a football match. The result of the match may mean one team wins, but the additional matches that they will play to get further up in the league are new phases, this one match is only one phase in the process of change.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Alfie...I'm not your daddy
In February The Sun newspaper shocked the nation when it revealed pictures of 12-year-old Alfie Patten holding a baby that was believed to be his with 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle Stedman from Eastbourne, East Sussex.
It has since been revealed that he is not in fact the father after a judge ruled that the DNA tests could be announced. The father is a 15-year-old boy from Eastbourne.
Alfie is said to be "extremely distressed" by the results. This young boy should see it as a blessing in disguise. He may be distressed as he has cared for the baby and found that his girlfriend cheated, but now he can carry on with his life and live out the rest of childhood without the burden of a baby.
It has since been revealed that he is not in fact the father after a judge ruled that the DNA tests could be announced. The father is a 15-year-old boy from Eastbourne.
Alfie is said to be "extremely distressed" by the results. This young boy should see it as a blessing in disguise. He may be distressed as he has cared for the baby and found that his girlfriend cheated, but now he can carry on with his life and live out the rest of childhood without the burden of a baby.
Monday, 11 May 2009
Sweets, Presidents, naked veterans and a tarty PM....
Harry Willsher, a 12-year-old schoolboy from Billericay, Essex, has been given the best job in the world, chief tester...in a SWEET FACTORY! Jealous? I am!
Every 3 months Harry is given the chance to test new, top secret sweet recipes after he won a competition at Swizzell's Matlow to find a new recruit. His description of the smells and flavours of his favourite sweet, the Drumstick lolly apparently wowed the judges.
Harry described the factory as being like something out of Roald Dahl's children's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I wonder if he gets paid too?
Also, Veteran actress June Brown, aka Dot Branning was Cotton in Eastenders, is planning to get naked in the future. The 82-year-old actress said "I don't know if it's a pretty sight". One can only imagine!
Barack Obama is establishing himself as a people's president, which is wonderful, but I was slightly annoyed to read that at a recent Washington Fundraiser the likes of Susan Boyle were invited. Boyle shot to fame on Britain's got Talent earlier this year, but I do not think that she should be invited to be entertained by the President of the United States, I mean surely there are more deserving people out there such as ex-army Brits etc. What's worse is she turned the invitation down. The phrase "too big for your boots", springs to mind.
And in conclusion to today's fascinating news update, it has emerged the Gordon Brown wears makeup, and has a step-by-step guide to applying the slap when he has to go D.I.Y. If I looked like him though I would probably do the same, he might want to change his brand however because as far as I can see it's not working for him.
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Mark McGowan and his "art"-felt tribute to Jade Goody
I thought I'd seen the lowest of the low in terms of art when I visited the the Tate Gallery in 2005 and stumbled across Tracy Emin's "Exploration of the Soul", a disgusting description of what she went through as a child, I don't even want to go into what she had written on the pieces of paper that in my opinion plagued the walls of the gallery. The woman is not an artist, she needs counselling.
Anyway, I was wrong! Mark McGowan, a Performance Artist has re-enacted the death of Jade Goody, using cardboard boxes with pictures stuck on of Jade's, mother Jackiey's and husband Jack's faces. The installation at the Guy Hilton Gallery in East London depicted the final two hours of Jade's life and around 200 people attended. Slightly soon, as she only died 6 weeks ago of Cervial Cancer. McGowan defends his art admitting it's "provocative" and accuses the people of England as being "too hung up on death".
So, I underwent a bit of research into him, and it turns out he is another deluded "Artist". His previous works include; re-enacting the death of Jean-Charles de Menezes by Met Police outside Stockwell Underground Station in London, and eating chunks of a Corgi dog in protest against Prince Philip for hunting foxes. Disgusting. Art my arse. But wait, it gets better! He sat in a bathtub full of baked beans with chips up his nose and sausages around his head claiming to be the defender of the Full English Breakfast. Art in this country really is going downhill. Sickening!
www.thesun.co.uk www.wikipedia.org
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Woman's bra saves her life!
Bras, in my experience, are more trouble then they are worth. You can never find the perfect fit, a nice style or one that suits all lifestyles. But I wonder when this woman bought her bra, whether or not she knew it would save her life!
The unnamed 57-year-old woman from the West side of Detroit was shot at by one of three intruders as she looked out of her window and saw them raiding the house next door. The bullet deflected off of the underwire of her bra thus saving her life.
She was taken to hospital but released the same day and Detroit police said "she sustained injuries but they're not life threatening."
Local police Sgt Eren Stephens Bell told the Detrioit News: "We need to get some bulletproof vests made from that. It is some strong wire."
The unnamed 57-year-old woman from the West side of Detroit was shot at by one of three intruders as she looked out of her window and saw them raiding the house next door. The bullet deflected off of the underwire of her bra thus saving her life.
She was taken to hospital but released the same day and Detroit police said "she sustained injuries but they're not life threatening."
Local police Sgt Eren Stephens Bell told the Detrioit News: "We need to get some bulletproof vests made from that. It is some strong wire."
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