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a graceless society. Wednesday, March 25, 2009 A graceless society. I cannot believe it. It is a graceless society (wing, you're right.) I attended Social Work lecture today. First time in a while. Today's topic was on gambling, and it was boring (I fell asleep.) The only purpose I went was to get information about our presentation. The lecturer did reveal it in the end - out of 3 weeks, we were the last. Fine. I couldn't wait to bounce off and go home. Then, this girl spoke. Her group's presenting first. "Can we make the deadline earlier? Like, can everyone pass up the powerpoints and reports in the first week? It's not fair to us who have to present by the first week." Omg. I couldn't believe this. Like.. WTH??? Come on! You don't have to be that freakin' competitive! It's a freaking General Elective, for crying out loud! The lecturer then decided to hold a vote. I was so pissed, I didn't even wanna participate in the whole stupid thing. Best part is, half of the lect voted for 1st week. My god. In the end, some other girl suggested compromise. We all pass up by 2nd week. Fine. I wanna go home. Enough of this bullshit. Then this same first-week-presentation girl then goes, " what if other groups see our presentation, then they go back and make theirs better?" My first thought was: "What makes you think we wanna copy your freakin' presentation? you think yours is that great?" Thank God the lecturer said "I don't think so." and dismissed the rest of us. I would have flipped. Or gone into a rampage. I couldn't believe it. In a social work module, of all things. What happened? Have we become so over-crazed over results and competition, that we just become so petty? What's the big deal? I can understand if you want to push the deadline back because it gives you more time to finish your project, but the reason given is really out to hinder everyone else. Have people become so selfish? It is really a classic case of "Me first. To my benefit. and by the way, screw those in my way." I really think our values are eroding. Giving way to pragmatism , economic benefit, getting ahead, individualism. Where people forget to be humane. I'm so angry. It is a graceless society. and God, I have to learn how to speak up and hesitate less. I don't think my character can take me keeping mum anymore. | |