Entries have been lacking, so has inspiration. I really think my Math class is to blame...
You're being to easy on soccer, he said. Well, I still love the game, and criticising your love is a hard thing to do. But he was right, I am. The transformative experience that this thesis is meant to be is on-going, and I have just spent the last two hours writing some of the most 'difficult' words in the process thus far. I am getting closer to the core issues, which is good, but I does cause lots of internal insecurity, and hard hours of self-reflection, and a few nightmares...
Excerpt:
"Popularly (Almond and Verba, 1969; Putnam, 1993; Gellner, 1994; Habermas, 2000) understood as the space dividing the political and the social, where the popular is expressed, and the demands of the state are handed down; it exists in the manipulation of the people be the state, and the state by the people. In this reading it is an independent area where people and government come together to build consensus, but a different reading (Zizeck, Schmidt, Gramsci) cast civil society as an extension of the state. In this model, the dialogue within civil society is state sanctioned and controlled at all times. That is to say, at no point are the ideas within civil society ever truly free or challenging, rather they are a product of mechanisms and values which the states has implanted before the citizen ever comes to express themselves."
The theme here is internal divisions are a training ground for individuals who will be employed for the 'greater' cause if need be. Looking at events in Serbia/Kosovo, it is hard to disagree. Soccer hooligans who cut their teeth fighting each other, are now employed to sack embassies and attack armed NATO troops. The story on Aljazeera.com today made me wonder if the supposed "orchestrated violence had any of the same people involved from the embassy assault. I'll never know, but I'll bet...
Well, time for bed. Math tomorrow....
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