monday blues

The jump from level 3 to 4 modules is pretty steep, as compared to the jump from level 2 to 3. Today, I spent an average of 5 minutes to read through each page of the readings required for my next Study of War lecture. To me, it feels as bizarre as reading some strange international relations of inter-planetary war, going by the way they talk about the possibility of 'militarizing space', and using naval and air warfare in a 'blue world' of sea and sky to supercede armour warfare in future force projections.

huh??????????????????

I think at the honours level, we are not even learning about the conventional wisdom and theories of politics anymore. It is learning about the hard core issue of force versus legitimacy in a very real and sad world. Going by the really pessimistic and realist and masculine way that the readings have been presented in this particular module, I think there is a large degree of biblical truth that we are going into an era of more WARS, famines and earthquake in the end times.

And then there was the level 6 lectures on international conflict. There's another guy with the same first and last name as me, although he is much older and has worked in mindef before. It was quite interesting to find out the working conditions in the intelligence department, and in the policy branch.

Too much analysis on the undercurrents of war and int conflicts is slowly convincing me that daily newspapers reports can be pretty cosmestic stuff.

We need more love and peace in this world.