So I've kind of come to a conclusion about the topics of this course and it has helped me understand that I will only ever slightly understand anything we talk about and that it's Okay.
Everything we've read is air. Not concrete or solid-- nothing easy to grasp. Just floating thoughts that can cause a frustrated break down unless we somehow make sense of it- even if the sense is a bit off-center.
Not every concept of every reading results in the above, but I think you'll agree that a lot of it does.
That is what ties this course together-- the theme is confusion based on the question 'how' and the number of possible opinions on each topic.
I came to this conclusion while reading Lakoff's ideas about the words we use to define male and female. This whole language thing is another mix of who and why and how, but never exact-- just like persuasion and rhetoric and opinion. It's all a bunch of ideas because these are topics that allow for many ideas, which isn't a bad thing, but a thing that I have to accept. You cannot tell me 1 + 2 = 3 because guess what... in this class there are a million different ways to get to three and while were on the topic, who decided to create these numbers and what makes three the answer?
I'm not complaining, though it may sound that way. It's just a WoNdErFuL conclusion!
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