To start my education off, I come back to Uni confused and open to new ideas

This sounds super cheesy, but hey. It is.

I started my undergraduate education bright eyed and willing to learn. An open canvas of sorts. Concepts and ideas were more important than the practical. After graduation and moving on, I must say, I've grown a bit more weary of ideas and philosophy. The real world plays a more crucial part in thought formulation than before.

With that said, I don't know how this is happening, but a number of elements in my life are converging to make me think I'm going to enter graduated school a bit more idealistic than I've been for years. Again, I didn't plan this, but I've read a bunch of socialist literature recently, including Upton Sinclair's book Oil! This praised socialism and the bolshevik revolution. I am now reading a book called supercapitialism that essentially lays into our current political and economic system of .democratic capitalism." The premise is that since the 1970's our country's economic model has grown to offer us more choices and opportunities, but at the expense of democracy. Pre-this-time, there were a limited number of company's that offered less choices and higher prices, but at the same time, ensured the welfare of most americans. I am also reading the current weekly Economist that is mourning the death of the intellectual due to specilization in knowledge, similar to market niches. Traci and I just finished the movie, "the lives of others" about Eastern Germany before the fall of the Berlin wall.

The point being, that I don't think I believe in our current system of government and the "free market" nor do I think there are other models of rule that are better that exist. I'm back into that fuzzy confused feeling of "teach me."

Ha.