Me, Myself, I - Why ?

After today's DMC session I looked back on my first blog and was pretty dissatisfied - the luddite grumblings of a disappointed old fart. It's all been said before and said better. But I do find it a bit of a worry that these 'social networks' are keeping us 'in touch with each other' yet we're becoming more and more isolated, stressed. A fascinating statistic... in the 1970s the average Australian house was about 14sqs and housed 4 to 5 people (min). 30 years later the average house is well over double that size and usually houses half that number people! And on top of that , much of the inner city factory space has been converted into warehouse living and extra storage space! Exactly how much room and junk do we really need? Sorry - more reminiscence... The playground of the decrepit.

but rather than change the blog I changed the profile photo instead! It's probably hard to make out as a thumbnail - but an awesome shot enlarged from when I was an exchange student, 16 years old at the Grand Canyon...My God what a beautiful place, if you ever want a sense of your own insignificance go to the Grand Canyon... My host brother and I dared each other to climb over a safety fence at a place called quite fittingly THE ABYSS and sit on this tiny outcrop of rock with that awesome background behind us to take a photo. My host Mum would've had a heart attack if she'd known. It was a mile straight down - but how cool's this - you could still hear the Colorado river from a mile away!


We looked over out essay topics today... Was greatly relieved to see the relatively distant deadline... Hopefully I will have caught on and caught up by Nov.


Talking about identity today... How we see ourselves, how we present ourselves - is there an unchanging observer - a true authentic soul, or are we just the sum of many personas? Deep and interesting stuff. Luckily I'd just done a series of 'Introduction to Philosophy' lectures at the Royal Society of Victoria so I wasn't completely head scratchingly dense.