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I furiously binge-watched the two seasons of Wayward Pines (2015–2016) yesterday (missing at least one episode and parts of some, since I couldn't access them at all/in their entirety). Since I was watching alone, I decided to rant out my contemplations down on paper, which I will recount here (spoilers of course):
Season 1
If the Ballingers were revolutionists, why did they rat out Beverly, causing her to get reckoned?
Why on EARTH would they think public executions are the answer in a pseudo-community living off of lies? (See e.g. Camus' Reflections on the Guillotine [1957] for a humanitarian discussion of public executions.)
If putting people back to cryo-sleep is an option, why not use that with the citizens as well? Adults are fertile too — why aren't they such a precious resource to the company/cult as well? And — as long as people are thought of as resources, even in that ideology, isn't it a huge waste to respond to misdemenours with DEATH?
How homophobic and heteronormative is a community so focused on reproduction? (They turned to this question briefly in season 2, answer of course being very. I was not satisfied with the extent this question was discussed — being, it nearly was discussed at all.)
How is the company/cult not eugenic and nepotistic inherently? (It is.)
Why does Theresa show so much resent for Katie, when Ethan is the one who has consciously betrayed Theresa? Misogyny? Internalized misogyny?
The people running the company/cult are adults — on what basis do they then think adults are incapable of habituating to the new situation? Aren't the other adults then just worries about their own monopoly over power? Children might be the future but they are also easier to control — hence the adults leading the children are the ones creating the picture of that future.
Hypnotherapy is bullshit.
2000 years in the face of evolution is merely a blink of an eye.
How white and ignorant do you have to be to think culture = a couple classical piano concertos, classicist home decor, and a few paintings from 1500–1900s?
All the aberrations look have male bodies? What does this tell of the perception of evolution? Or degeneration? (This question was brought up in season 2, really not giving satisfactory answers and continuing to view sex and gender in an overly dichotomized and binary way.)
Why would the aberrations be more adapted to the 41st century? What is the evolutionary biology behind that?
How very lame to do the "evil man listens to classical music in a secluded mansion while others are dying on the streets".
Why does Wayward Pines have so much guns and ammo, if there is only one sheriff and the reckonings are done by hand?
Season 2
The aberrations don't seem that complex or scary.
Why does this season as well have to rely on a white male archetype to lead on the story?
The minute they find a female aberration, they dress them up (sexualize/shame their naked body) and find it even more convenient to abuse them.
Where the fuck did that guy get a twizzler?
There are no artists in Wayward Pines? Yet another depiction of "essential roles in society", where the arts and humanities are left out.
What are the ethics of weaponizing viruses, sacrificing oneself tp kill over one third of another population? What is the use of the evacuation? Don't the aberrations deserve to reclaim their territory, especially since the human invaders can save themselves in another manner? Didn't they learn anything about the possibility for cooperation?
The repetitious clips of the aberrations just screeching at the cliff do not do justice to the complexity of the aberrations. They seem like blood-lusted "monsters" yet again.
This is where my notes end. After sleeping through the night and rethinking Wayward Pines, I find the two seasons very discontinuous. Season 2 beginning with a voice over of Benjamin really set the mood to think they would be the main character — after the season I don't even remember what they did or what happened to them after all? It also was disappointing to see that Theresa's character was not developed further and they became a side character, even though the viewer was engaged to their character from the beginning. Also I can't stand, nor see the value or meaning, of the monogamous heterosexual quarrels happening in both of the seasons.
Okay bye !
#wayward pines#wayward pines season 1#wayward pines season 2#look at me trying to be a television critic and all#nah#i was just bored and taking notes actually made the watching quite fun#spoiler alert#binge watching
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Today I've been alone for a change. I've been having a very very hard time concentrating lately, so I started the day by outlining a schedule for the day — reading history, animal rights studies, more history, and lastly Nietzsche. (I'm following M. A. Gillespie's train of thought so I want to work through The Birth of Tragedy, Human All Too Human, The Dawn of Day, The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Gillespie has written a great "Nietzsche companion" — at least for me it is that — called Nietzsche's Final Teaching in which he tries to penetrate the origin of Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence. I'm currently reading The Dawn of Day.)
I am still in limbo though. I finished my bachelor's degree and I even got sent the festive auto-generated link to my email, through which I could gather the oh-so-formal PDF containing the diploma. All I could think of when I got the diploma was the comic of that archeologist who has worked for 15 years to get to that scroll of truth, which they immediately throw away when they find it. That sums up the experience at uni.
Anyway, all the reading I'm currently doing is for my own ends. Just me choosing what to study. I enjoy it, but I still feel empty. I am free to do what I want, but I have to feel guilty about it because I am not living up according to the status quo.
#studyblr#university#currently reading#reading#graduation#let the festivities begin#bachelor's degree#blegh
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The first time I heard Cha cha cha it reminded me of Rammstein's TATTOO! I'm curious to find that other people have made this observation of Käärijå X Rammstein as well (and not solely based on Käärijä's Rammstein tattoo).
I said I'd stop eurovisionposting but one thing that bothers me is everyone saying Blood and Glitter was a version of Rammstein (either gay or cheep or something). Firstly, completely different genre and vibes. Blood and Glitter is like classic heavy metal meets glam rock/gothic metal, like a love child of Iron Maiden and HIM, while Rammstein is industrial metal. They are just saying that because it's metal and German and the singer has low voice, but like that's where the similarities end.
You know what was a version of Rammstein? Käärijä. Cha Cha Cha is basically Rammstein mixed with Finnish electro pop. There's the industrial heavy beats and the monotone menacing singing. This is not just speculation, he is a huge Rammstein fan (the tattoo in his chest is a Rammstein tattoo) and he said the biggest influence to his performance was Till Lindemann, the frontman of Rammstein. If you've ever seen Till Lindemann perform, it's super obvious.
Käärijä did the Lindemann expression I affectionately call the dead fish expression. And tongue is also typical part of Lindemann performance. Not to mention like the suggestive doggy style stuff is like standard affair in the Rammstein live performance.
Till Lindemann also dresses up in weird and wacky colorful costumes when performing. And at points in time he has had pretty similar haircut as Käärijä now.
In couple of decades Käärijä can probably get the dead fish expression as dead and fishy as Lindemann lololol
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Today I left my application for my Bachelor's degree — it should be processed in a couple of weeks. The form I had to fill was buggy. Overall these last formalities with finishing my degree are very... Unelegant? It all makes me want to leave all this behind me even faster. I was hoping it would feel more accomplishing.
Later I met with a friend with whom I openly discussed the question: what next? It makes me nervous to discuss the possibility of both, getting or not getting in to the master's programs I applied for. This last year in the university has been unsatisfactory to say the least. I feel deprived of any motivation — simultaneously I feel as if I will never get that light academic curiosity back, and as if now is the time I will explode with all the curiosity and motivation I've been deprived of.
I look forward to summer. I will grow my plants, tend to the garden, and stick to reading things I'm passionate about.
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My bachelor's degree should be done with very soon! I am waiting for the final course I attended to get graded. Then I have to deal with some bureaucracy until it's done.
I feel very conflicted about this. I know this is not what I want to continue with — mostly clinical psychology, that is. Simultaneously it isn't clear where I might end up. Over these couple of years my expectations about the university and student life have met up with some concrete walls. I have not been happy and I have not been intellectually nourished. I wish that could change. I want to be challenged by my studies, but I do not want to have a competition with other students. I want to create. I want to discuss. I want to be proved wrong. I want to prove myself to be right. All that glamour...
My intellect has been shriveling up these past few years. Everything has sort of dissolved into this vague goo inside my head. It's hard to determine what I stand for. I haven't really dwelled into anything in depth. And I can't even be determined with my nihilism. I hope that will change.
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Basella alba currently :')
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These pictures are each just one day apart from the other! The growth is utterly dizzying! These are Basella alba. They need a very warm place for sprouting so I placed them in my bathroom where there's underfloor heating.
I just left home for a week — fingers crossed these little fellas are still alive and well when I get back. They are in a miniature greenhouse so they should have all the moisture they need.
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Today I got up early to do an online exam regarding children's position in criminal law and divorce conflict. I was not super thrilled about the course — its main focus was on psychologists praxis in these processes. I was allowed to have all the course material with me during the exam, so it took a lot of the weight from my shoulders. I think I passed it (there were some "tick a box" -questions, results of which I saw immediately afterwards) but I'll still wait to hear from the teachers.
I am one step closer to finishing my bachelor's degree.
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Growing roots (ノ°∀°)ノ🍃 These are Chlorophytum, commonly... Spider plant? This is the first time looked up this plant in English and don't know what people call it!
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Just ･☆*:゜ﾟ.｡. Johan.｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*☆
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Today I was at campus for a couple hours getting done some mandatory group work for English class. Afterwards I met up with some friends, which really cheered me up! I biked home in the sunshine and now I'm listening to my favourite lo-fi mix called 2240403 and reading text books for an exam I have in a week or so.
#studyblr#lo-fi study beats#university#it's spring#with the sun and the dust that flies into your eyes from everywhere
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I gathered all the remaining course literature for the spring on this small shelf. It helps to keep track of what's going on and what needs to be done. There are notebooks for my personal writing (also Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race is for that), driver's license material, forensic psychology (and a text book) and English.
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