SHUTTER ISLAND
it's all a scam. everything you thought was real became fake in the end. which was probably why i found it disturbing cos how do you know for sure what's real and what isn't. anw, it just reminds me of our philo lessons on reality and knowledge back in the old rg times.
i don't know whether schools should be neutral about things. like stay away from sensitive/ controversial issues. I suppose yes, there's the school image and brand to be concerned about. But it also depends on the scale of things and the actual scenarios right. idk. there is a difference between advocacy, support and exploration. i guess to to less discerning people, they may treat all three as the same thing, but for the more open-minded and mature people, i guess they'll be able to appreciate greater freedom in expression. sometimes, i don't really understand what are the yardsticks to judge whether something is a sensitive issue.
and about social experiments. the education system that we go through is constantly undergoing refinement and we are kinda like the test subjects for their experiment right? yeah this analogy is abit weird but it is true to a certain extent. they try certain policies to test if they work and all but they don't really release the results of everything. why is there a lack of accountability? is it because the truth can't be known, or it is an inconvenient truth? what if policies fail? can the government admit that its hypothesis was wrong?
i don't know whether schools should be neutral about things. like stay away from sensitive/ controversial issues. I suppose yes, there's the school image and brand to be concerned about. But it also depends on the scale of things and the actual scenarios right. idk. there is a difference between advocacy, support and exploration. i guess to to less discerning people, they may treat all three as the same thing, but for the more open-minded and mature people, i guess they'll be able to appreciate greater freedom in expression. sometimes, i don't really understand what are the yardsticks to judge whether something is a sensitive issue.
and about social experiments. the education system that we go through is constantly undergoing refinement and we are kinda like the test subjects for their experiment right? yeah this analogy is abit weird but it is true to a certain extent. they try certain policies to test if they work and all but they don't really release the results of everything. why is there a lack of accountability? is it because the truth can't be known, or it is an inconvenient truth? what if policies fail? can the government admit that its hypothesis was wrong?