Productive, yet lazy?
So today I managed to be quite productive. I got my Wednesday class's 1st essays graded (a range with mostly As and Cs...) and I read a whole 280 page book on the development of the "modern family" for my Early Modern Europe class.
How did I read a 280 page book in a few hours on an afternoon? It's quite simple. The book was horrendous and there were large parts I could skim once I got the gist of the argument. The argument was basically that humans didn't experience love, happiness, or familial attachment before the 1800s. Emotions are the biproduct of modernism. You may think I'm joking or exaggerating or being sarcastic, but I'm not. Any sociologist, anthropologist, or historian with an ounce of human understanding would cringe at the arguments put forth in this book. Luckily, in recent scholarship hardly anyone gives weight to these ideas anymore. Bad scholarship, bad argumentation, bad thought process, bad examples, bad bad bad.
Since I read this book and graded these essays, I actually got a lot done today, but I still feel lazy. Perhaps its because I didn't put makeup on or do my hair, and Casey, the dog, and I all took a nap this afternoon while it snowed outside... all that sounds like a lazy Saturday to me. :-)
How did I read a 280 page book in a few hours on an afternoon? It's quite simple. The book was horrendous and there were large parts I could skim once I got the gist of the argument. The argument was basically that humans didn't experience love, happiness, or familial attachment before the 1800s. Emotions are the biproduct of modernism. You may think I'm joking or exaggerating or being sarcastic, but I'm not. Any sociologist, anthropologist, or historian with an ounce of human understanding would cringe at the arguments put forth in this book. Luckily, in recent scholarship hardly anyone gives weight to these ideas anymore. Bad scholarship, bad argumentation, bad thought process, bad examples, bad bad bad.
Since I read this book and graded these essays, I actually got a lot done today, but I still feel lazy. Perhaps its because I didn't put makeup on or do my hair, and Casey, the dog, and I all took a nap this afternoon while it snowed outside... all that sounds like a lazy Saturday to me. :-)