History is a fascinating subject – when it’s NOT being taught in school. My teachers had a talent for killing my interest in history because they had no talent in teaching it. They forced us to remember the names of people not the people themselves, we were taught the whens&wheres of what happened not the whys.
Think of history as the worlds biggest and longest running soap opera and it really happened, JR Ewing’s family had nothing on the REAL Borgias.
That’s why I’m so glad I had the history professor I did. He explicitly avoided loading us down with names and dates and told us to focus on causes and relationships.
This is why I find it immeasurably sad that people consider “learning” a thing that happens in school/college and that once you graduate, you never “have to learn” again. (I once met a woman at a bus stop who could not comprehend that I was trying to learn a language for a purpose unrelated to either school or work.)
Maybe it’s just from being raised homeschool, but I have learned SO MUCH outside the boundaries of school. I’m 35 and I still seek out new areas to learn. History because of the lyrics to songs by Sabaton – the reason I “met” Erwin Rommel, now one of my favorite historical figures. Or because of Extra Credits videos on the Punic Wars. Chemistry and metallurgy thanks in part to Minecraft mods. Refresher course in math because Khan Academy makes it fun and easy. Bartending because hey, I just wanted to know what went into all those drinks I saw people drinking (I didn’t myself drink until after age 30, but now I do occasionally).
It’s amazing how much knowledge is out there, waiting to be learned from the privacy of your own house even at 2 AM. Can you imagine what the philosophers of long ago would do with this internet thing? And we think learning is “boring” because school has turned golden subjects into lead for countless children every year đ
We have been divided on land for millennia. Perhaps they are divided in the water, as that is clearly their true home. No one said they actually had figured out “sticking together”. Humans are, after all, dangerous to outsiders. That, and it has already been established that warring probably did in Selkie’s tribe/clan. Sounds real familiar.
Yeah. The Gaia hypothesis suggest that humanity is the nervous system of Gaia. I’m more inclined to think we’re the immune response, they way we demonise and attack anything different.
The whales were communicating over oceanic distances for thousands of years- they were probably the nervous system. One of the first things we attacked…
Meta entity architecture isn’t really that cut and dry. Nervous system is a good starting point because we perform high level cognitive tasks (at least from our perspective) and most of our analogous services relate to information processing (environmental awareness chief among them…we are also the /eyes/ and /ears/ of Earth through our observation and exploration of our solar system and beyond).
The propensity to demonize things is more in line with an internal, memetic immune response, protecting our functional integrity as an organ as well as learning to recognize our own pathologies and begin working to correct them before we become too cancerous for the host body to support.
It’s not perfect, of course, and it often leaves us fighting our own worst impulses once we realize they /are/ our own worst impulses, but the nice thing about the Earth is that life is robust enough to take it’s time. Even if this permutation of a nervous system fails, we have a few billion years to do better and it’s going to take a lot more than we can dish out to completely stop life from living.
The sheer amount of data we process and store may be causing us to behave in an erratic fashion, suggesting that we’re pushing up against the practical processing limits of our current development and need to slow down until we figure out how to do better, safer.
Ironically, it may be that forgetting some of our history may be better for us in the long run than trying to learn from it. If only to let go of some of the grudges we keep dredging up as an excuse to kill ourselves.
Q. Why does waving a hand indicate friendliness in America etc., but the same sign is seen as an unfathomable insult in Greece?
A. Culture happens, it just happened to be what made sense to them.
I think we should get another booklet like Selkie’s care guide for Todd. I’m certain he would love to know as much as he can in case Selkie comes up with any more questions later on.
“Selkie’s not huge on history.”
‘Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.’ or at least that is what my high school teachers told me. đ
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”
you teach more in that one sentence than all the history teachers of the world
That…really aptly sums up my history class.
History is a fascinating subject – when it’s NOT being taught in school. My teachers had a talent for killing my interest in history because they had no talent in teaching it. They forced us to remember the names of people not the people themselves, we were taught the whens&wheres of what happened not the whys.
Think of history as the worlds biggest and longest running soap opera and it really happened, JR Ewing’s family had nothing on the REAL Borgias.
That’s why I’m so glad I had the history professor I did. He explicitly avoided loading us down with names and dates and told us to focus on causes and relationships.
This is why I find it immeasurably sad that people consider “learning” a thing that happens in school/college and that once you graduate, you never “have to learn” again. (I once met a woman at a bus stop who could not comprehend that I was trying to learn a language for a purpose unrelated to either school or work.)
Maybe it’s just from being raised homeschool, but I have learned SO MUCH outside the boundaries of school. I’m 35 and I still seek out new areas to learn. History because of the lyrics to songs by Sabaton – the reason I “met” Erwin Rommel, now one of my favorite historical figures. Or because of Extra Credits videos on the Punic Wars. Chemistry and metallurgy thanks in part to Minecraft mods. Refresher course in math because Khan Academy makes it fun and easy. Bartending because hey, I just wanted to know what went into all those drinks I saw people drinking (I didn’t myself drink until after age 30, but now I do occasionally).
It’s amazing how much knowledge is out there, waiting to be learned from the privacy of your own house even at 2 AM. Can you imagine what the philosophers of long ago would do with this internet thing? And we think learning is “boring” because school has turned golden subjects into lead for countless children every year đ
Pohl, she’s a preteen, not an intern, scale language appropriately…
along the same lines, im sad to see the absence of bunny ears
She at least didn’t cut it off before learning that the Sarnothi moved away from a monarchy, so she doesn’t get to be a lost princess.
Thatâs assuming she knows what the word âmonarchyâ means, and that she hadnât tuned him out completely somewhere around tribal warfare.
AUGH! Dave. Give us the exposition already!
Although if I were the one writing this comic, I’d probably be doing this too. So bonus points.
Also: Sarnoth really knows how to stick together. If they can stick together for thousands of years … we’re all shamed.
hahaha if you think this delay was bad, go see what novil did in a recent sandra and woo, similar but pure evil lol
INORITE?!
now we’ll never know Larisa’s secret ;_;
Maybe I should use a few empty speech bubbles…
would they be colored?
*runs away*
We have been divided on land for millennia. Perhaps they are divided in the water, as that is clearly their true home. No one said they actually had figured out “sticking together”. Humans are, after all, dangerous to outsiders. That, and it has already been established that warring probably did in Selkie’s tribe/clan. Sounds real familiar.
Yeah. The Gaia hypothesis suggest that humanity is the nervous system of Gaia. I’m more inclined to think we’re the immune response, they way we demonise and attack anything different.
The whales were communicating over oceanic distances for thousands of years- they were probably the nervous system. One of the first things we attacked…
No see, the nervous system was the dinosaurs. That’s why everything is so out of whack and insane now.
Everything is better with dinosaurs.
Meta entity architecture isn’t really that cut and dry. Nervous system is a good starting point because we perform high level cognitive tasks (at least from our perspective) and most of our analogous services relate to information processing (environmental awareness chief among them…we are also the /eyes/ and /ears/ of Earth through our observation and exploration of our solar system and beyond).
The propensity to demonize things is more in line with an internal, memetic immune response, protecting our functional integrity as an organ as well as learning to recognize our own pathologies and begin working to correct them before we become too cancerous for the host body to support.
It’s not perfect, of course, and it often leaves us fighting our own worst impulses once we realize they /are/ our own worst impulses, but the nice thing about the Earth is that life is robust enough to take it’s time. Even if this permutation of a nervous system fails, we have a few billion years to do better and it’s going to take a lot more than we can dish out to completely stop life from living.
As to why things are so out of whack now, here’s a fun bit of computer science trivia: They’ve essentially driven a computer schizophrenic through a sort of information overload. http://www.utexas.edu/news/2011/05/05/schizophrenia_discern/
The sheer amount of data we process and store may be causing us to behave in an erratic fashion, suggesting that we’re pushing up against the practical processing limits of our current development and need to slow down until we figure out how to do better, safer.
Ironically, it may be that forgetting some of our history may be better for us in the long run than trying to learn from it. If only to let go of some of the grudges we keep dredging up as an excuse to kill ourselves.
Vapourware, I have high hopes for machine intelligence. Can’t wait for the Metalzoic.
Hmm… Dinosaurs, you say?
Yes. Yes, I can see that.
Not even wanting to know about her past will stop Selkie’s dislike of history.
Funny sometimes how principled kids can be. XD
“Selkie’s not huge on history.” What kid that age is? I didn’t get the history bug till college…
Darn that makes me the odd one out XD
i am in collage and i still don’t have the history bug, i don’t mind history, its still way better than MATH, but I don’t read it if i don’t have to.
I’ve always been big on history, especially world history.
I hope you have the rest of that history at the ready for the rest of us insane history addicts.
So I was thinking.
A much better way to indicate non-aggression would be to put one’s hands below one’s elbows and bend forward.
Added bonus: This is essentialy a human bow.
Q. Why does waving a hand indicate friendliness in America etc., but the same sign is seen as an unfathomable insult in Greece?
A. Culture happens, it just happened to be what made sense to them.
I think we should get another booklet like Selkie’s care guide for Todd. I’m certain he would love to know as much as he can in case Selkie comes up with any more questions later on.
AAARGH!!!! Just finished running through the archives again, and suddenly there aren’t any more strips! :'( Now I have to wait until Monday!!!
Ah poor baby, you need a cookie to keep you busy. Here;
http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?sid=rwby&v=more
No, the interesting stuff! Blood rites, super powers, diet, super powersâŚ