i'll be blunt. this school is expensive. and while i observe my professors continuously refering http://wikipedia.org as a resource for knowledge as i do at home and have literally for years before i came here, i wonder what i am paying for. it's a bit taboo around here. you can feel it in different groups. but i'm not here to complain. i'm here to learn. in reading the first chapter of technopoly by neil postman, one thing was highlighted that i thought was good. he outlines the way technological change is really fought out in the classroom. the role of tv and visual media in altering young mentalities. but when he comes to the computer, all that is implied is an isolated world of egotism and private learning... this is doesn't seem to be the case around here. granted i may be writing this to an audience of 3, but we do pay attention to each other's logs and ideas. it's interesting for me to see the way we generate html content as our education progresses. this can only result in profusion of the knowledge we have and we are building. hmm... if writing is the process of pushing your mind into the world, looking at the internet is the process of pushing the world (the warped interweb world) into your mind? we sit for long long long long long long long long long long long long periods of time looking at these light boxes. that get smaller and smaller. and all we do is open our eyes wider and wider and we see less and less far away, what does it mean. myopia is a good and pertinent word. now if i can just figure out what i'm rebeling against. that being said, i really would like to make things that exist in the real world. but at the same time, contain the ideas that we have developed from this continuous social experiment that we are all in the middle of. i think that's why i want to make this organ thing. i gotta go.