Thursday, October 04, 2007

Today was my last proper lesson of GP, and I'm pretty sad to see it go. It's perhaps the most underrated subject, if only because it teaches the arcane methods of acquiring insight. That is, getting to the crux of a problem, and examining it on a fundamental level.

You can stand bigots on a pedestal and deconstruct them for what they are. Language works where fists and swords do not, getting past the defences that are ignorance, and prejudice.

And useful, too, for prodding people toward realising their shortcomings themselves. For a failure that one believes to be private, is one where the pain is not dulled by the act of repairing the ego, or maintaining a certain public image.

Horrid, but effective, and so very satisfying. Like so many long needles in a bag of alphabets.