Elusive

Gah! Here is my first non-crap post after so many days, I have to admit that I had intended to write about so many things (the cold weather, the Black Nazarene, the Sto. Nino), but upon opening this page where I compose, words just failed me. The best explanation could be that of the exams week and I had been preoccupied with studies, and yet another one could be emo: I was uninspired! Ugh.

Today, I am elated, thus inspired to write because I got the article I had been looking for after days of searching: Contradictions and Limits of a Developmental State: With Illustrations from the South Korean Case by Eun Mee Kim. Only seventeen pages to read and report for tomorrow! Thank God.

For helping me locate the article, I thank the following persons, Lawrence de Guzman and his UP connections, Carlos Romulo for the info, Marj Perez and her boyfriend for bagging the prized article, Brent Lee for searching his school’s library and sending me the PDF, Cherrie Pastores for her reference, Chester Diego for alumni networking, Michael Rico and Tey Panlaqui, and the beautiful librarian at the UST library’s Science section for helping me with JSTOR.

Now, if anyone needs any scholarly article to be found under the subject of humanities and social science, especially if you are a Political Science major (we could most likely be using the same references), feel free to message me here! I will gladly send you a PDF version.

And now, I will take a bath. Tah tah.

 

P.S. it’s ma’s birthday today. Also my friends’ basketball game against Sociology (versus Political Science) — hope they win.

Something from Arendt

“Each time you write something and you send it out into the world and it becomes public, obviously everybody is free to do with it what he pleases, and this is as it should be. I do not have any quarrel with this. You should not try to hold your hand now on whatever may happen to what you have been thinking for yourself. You should rather try to learn from what other people do with it.”

– Hannah Arendt (Remarks to the American Society of Christian Ethics, 1973)

— I took this from my professor’s Facebook note. Arendt seemed like she was talking in the present when she said this in 1973 — thirty-six years ago, when the Internet did not exist. This is very relevant in the present time when people get the misconception of “privacy” in anything they publish over the Internet.