What is wrong with the world is....
When people ask me what I am studying I think, great here comes the long name which nobody understands and I am really not sure how to explain without rambling on and on…well it is an interdisciplinary program.... I am concentrating on international relations…. When I could say, actually what we do is study all the shitty things people do to each other, torture, genocide, war and why governemnt is good/bad and figure out how in the world things are ever going to be different while being told again, and again that the world is crap and that really any idea you will ever have has been tried and look how it is failing.
Then they hand you an assignment like, here, now go solve the problems of the world or explain in detail why we never will. So I am sitting here writing an essay about human rights, which is related to almost everything I’ve studied before. The question is something like, can a decentralized system of international law and diplomacy blah, blah blah, ever be fully effective at applying human rights norms?
And I am thinking well, if I’ve learned anything in the three years that I’ve been having this stuff hammered into my brain by author after author it is that, no system will EVER BE FULLY EFFECTIVE...EVER, like duh!!!
I am tempted to leave it at, No, it can never be FULLY effective and neither will any one solution as history seems to show us. Don’t get me wrong the world has made some progress... I think but really come on could there be a more depressing way of putting the question, I mean let’s face it fully effective is only possible in theories with other things held constant etc etc. (and even that I am sure could be put up for debate.)
However, I doubt the my mark for the assignment would be acceptable if I leave it at that succinct answer. So I am going to spend another 10 hours or so filling at least 10 pages to say what I’ve just said in roughly 10 minutes using real world examples and illustrating that I’ve read up on the ideas of some people who have been saying the same sort of thing after looking at the world through their international relations bubble.
Then they hand you an assignment like, here, now go solve the problems of the world or explain in detail why we never will. So I am sitting here writing an essay about human rights, which is related to almost everything I’ve studied before. The question is something like, can a decentralized system of international law and diplomacy blah, blah blah, ever be fully effective at applying human rights norms?
And I am thinking well, if I’ve learned anything in the three years that I’ve been having this stuff hammered into my brain by author after author it is that, no system will EVER BE FULLY EFFECTIVE...EVER, like duh!!!
I am tempted to leave it at, No, it can never be FULLY effective and neither will any one solution as history seems to show us. Don’t get me wrong the world has made some progress... I think but really come on could there be a more depressing way of putting the question, I mean let’s face it fully effective is only possible in theories with other things held constant etc etc. (and even that I am sure could be put up for debate.)
However, I doubt the my mark for the assignment would be acceptable if I leave it at that succinct answer. So I am going to spend another 10 hours or so filling at least 10 pages to say what I’ve just said in roughly 10 minutes using real world examples and illustrating that I’ve read up on the ideas of some people who have been saying the same sort of thing after looking at the world through their international relations bubble.
posted by girlyLarki at 10:31 AM
3 Comments:
i see somebody is still working on a certain paper, no doubt! lol
hey I! I found your blog off of strohberry's blog. i'm too scared to use her initials coz she may not like that :P i like your blog! its so awesome :) you're very articulate. i guess its all those essay they make you write :D he he. I LOVE that poem you started off with. its so cute :D hee hee.
so yah shopping on friday sounds excellent :D
everything that masuma said
minus - the shopping on friday
minus - the remark about the poem, because i'm tired and i don't rememeber reading a poem at the beginning.
plus - i hope to see you again soon! all smiles!
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