truth

Yesterday I meant to update my blog, i wrote a looooooooooooong intellectual piece, i anticipated to post it up. However, SOMEONE came over and closed the window, what an unfortunate event.

Now. I have NO post.

Just kidding, i'll write something else.

So today is Tuesday. Tuesday is my favourite day of the week for school because a) i have TWO classes b) which means i get to stay in school longer than the usual ONE class days c) my favourite class today!

I'm taking a course called "The history of anthropology and the limits of theory" this term.
While i was subwaying home, i told my friend how it's just so wonderful to end my undergraduate career with this course. In this class, there are around only 10 people, at first i was very intimidated, but as the semester passed by, we all got along very well.
Each week, we discuss a new social theorist who contributes to the fundamental thinking of anthropology. It's a very basic and fundamental course, yet it's so crucial to understanding so many concepts and way of thought in anthropology. It is so general yet soo in depth. Because of this course, i am able to think about my field of study in such a thorough way. It's like studying the anthropology of anthropology. Wow!
Anyway, this is not really just about anthropology, this course has challenged us to think about a lot of deep issues regarding the world, we studied theories in the past that attempted to be full universal law, to theories today that are totally opposed to the idea of having a universally generalizing idea.
The way we look at issues is to DECONSTRUCT, and DECONSTRUCT and DECONSTRUCT. We basically look at somethign and just keep peeling away the layers, and keep critique-ing and critique-ing.

I'm sure that's what a lot of social science courses do. All we do is...critque, critique, critque.
At one point, you'll realize that this whole system of thinking in academia does not go anywhere. I was so frustrated with it last term because I kept thinking..."so..what's the point then? what's right and what's wrong?"

Today we talked about a sociologist/anthropologist/philosopher called Pierre Bourdieu, and his book "The science of science and reflexivity". Bourdieu is AMAZING, i loove the way he thinks, it's so, out there. In the book he basically talks about how the field of SCIENCE is in danger because of the insertion of economics into sciences, and because of that, science becomes dangerous. He also talks about the dangers of our perception of truth, as science today has so much authority, it's often seen as "truth" and people don't question it.

In speaking of "truth", bourdieu says he tries to understand it like Nietchze by taking away any deifying qualities (like God and the supernatural things) to the idea, yet he also says that he is uncomfortable with that because if you don't have God and truth, there is no such truth, there's no unifying quality. Then, we as humans will continue to search and create a truth, which is essentially never-ending and self destructive.
This is what struck me today. All the deconstruction, all the theories trying to understand the world comes to a dead end. There will also never be an end if we keep searching for truth without God. Essentially academic theories just goes around in loops and circles.
In the end, it is God who unifies us all, and is all.

"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. " Colossians 2:9-11