Okay. The second unlecture just ended . In a state of rush I nearly trip over my feet as I hurry to the rmit library. I have ideas. I don’t want to lose them.( I bet all of my zero readers are sitting at the edge of their seats as their anxiousness builds… you want to know what happens next. I know, I am the queen of suspense) I frantically sit down on a chair, unpack my bag, take out my iPad and BAM: writers block. Damn it.
*an extended period of time has passed* (not really… It’s been about ten minutes)
I realize this is just what Adrian touched on in the unlecture. In the midst of running around university trying to store all of this newfound knowledge in my less than capable memory, I’ve forgotten half the information I had acquired in the unlecture. Luckily I had – like an absolute boss – sneakily jotted down a few ideas in that hour period. Without print my knowledge is limited. Memory alone is fallible and rather incompetent. I was briefly transported to the past; a time when oral culture was the only kind of culture, a culture that existed pre print literacy when knowledge was concrete; it was static. How can you revolutionize the world if you are unable to think abstractly?? And if abstractedness is, as Adrian had stated, developed through literacy, then without it we do not encompass the capability to grow. With this knowledge I’ve come to realize just how smart – or rather shifty my parents were when I was a child. Since ” children have an oral culture”, we… Or I’ll focus on my personal self so as not to generalize, always believed that my parents knew it ALL. As a petrified ten year old I remember looking up at my parents furiously frustrated faces ( yes I just unsuccessfully attempted a three word alliteration) as they yelled at me for leaving my toys lying around and thinking ” they know everything…. Therefore the logical thing to do would be to listen to them and accept map punishment”. I’m not falling for that one again mother. This has therefore become the foundation upon which I will base my argument whenever I find myself in trouble… ” you think I’ve done something wrong, but knowledge is not concrete, therefore you ought to open your mind and accept the truth… Your knowledge of my actions being wrong is questionable as knowledge continues to grow… Rather than get me into trouble, you ought to revolutionize your knowledge of what is wrong”. The key is to make strange your assumptions mother. This isn’t something ive simply cooked up, rather, its a legitimate piece of information I’ve learn at uni. Thankyou for encouraging me to do to uni. Muhahaha…… somehow I feel as though I’ve extracted a somewhat mislead interpretation from the unlecture.