J.S. McGowan

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  1. J.S. McGowan

    4th Entry

    By J.S. McGowan,

    On my school holidays... pretty nice so far. just been relaxing etc.
    I did my learners a few days ago... I failed by one point... one point. Ah well: Ill be prepared for the next shot.
    I better start on a history essay soon. I'm going to cover the history of the environmentalist movement. I think my hypothesis will revolve around trying to uncover the dark secrets of what modern environmentalism means. One card I have uncovered is that the Nazi's had one of the most "progressive" environmental policies...
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    3rd entry

    By J.S. McGowan,

    Nothing much happened today...
    weather was horrible: very rainy.... Sailing was canceled unfortunately.
    Discussed Macbeth in English. I argued that I enjoyed the movie adaption of Macbeth that we watched because I think that it rationalized the plot and that because of this it gave the story more moral value. No one agreed. they said that that the idea of fate (rather than the delusion of it) was important to the plot.
  3. J.S. McGowan

    2nd Entry

    By J.S. McGowan,

    I will attempt to make an entry daily... don't know how long I will keep it up though...
    Nothing of much consequence happened today. In English we finished watching Roman Polanski's movie adaption of Macbeth. I quite enjoyed it. I think that Macbeth highlights the evils of the belief of ends justifying the means plus i believe that Shakespeare's depiction of a man making himself a slave to prophesy, and being ultimately fooled and destroyed by it, has a lot of moral value.
    I'm reading Dracula at the moment, a friend lent it to me, and I am enjoying it. Its a lot more easy to read than I anticipated. Plus the plot is more creepy than I thought it would be...
    I was shocked by how different the Dracula in the novel is to the way I imagined he would be... I definitely didn't expect short stubby fingers and a big mustache...
  4. J.S. McGowan

    1st entry

    By J.S. McGowan,

    I've never done anything "bloggy" before... so this is my first ever blog entry.
    I guess I should say a little about myself. Obviously I am an Objectivist. I think Ayn Rand allowed me to grow up; before I found Ayn Rand in my early teens I was afraid, what of I didn't know, but i felt a constant pressure upon me. I called myself an atheist but I was so cringingly tolerant of other beliefs and so skeptical of everything that I was probably more mystical than any religious follower.
    The first Ayn Rand book I read was Fountainhead: it blew me away and changed my life.
    But I want my Blog to focus more on the current events in my life.
    I live in quite a rural part of South Africa. So I am very much alone in my convictions. I go to England regularly as I am British: but I find that the majority of people my age there have very different views to my own.
    I am notorious at my High school for being "too opinionated". I managed to clear my whole table in art today after I made a criticism of the Kony 2012 movement thingy...
    I even enraged one of my friends: to whom I wrote a letter of apology with a picture of me as a donkey... this same friend says I must not voice my opinion when ever I feel the need but must instead simply say "hmmm" (prehaps she is right...)
    I'm really hoping that at some point soon I will find some one who shares my values and beliefs.