Worthless and Weak

You're all worthless and weak!

Monday, August 25, 2008

 
There are various things I don't understand.

For instance, I don't really truly understand Keynesian economics. I get some of it, but the whole thing is a little beyond my grasp. Similarly, I really don't understand the theory of Austrian business cycles.

This doesn't really matter, to me at least, because I figure that if one of them is correct and useful, well, it would create useful knowledge (the previous statement is tautological, so it must be true!), and would therefore win out over the other. (for those who understand even less economics than I do, those two theories contradict one another. For those who understand more, you can simply use the previous sentence as a fact that I don't really understand either theory).

Also, I don't understand the many conclusions that people make from quantum mechanics. For instance, the "many-worlds" hypothesis. Or someone once claimed that time started at the moment of the big bang, and that any large enough explosion would create time. This I don't understand.

I figure that its not really that big of a deal that I don't understand it, since it really doesn't matter to me too much, and there are people specializing in those fields, and they understand it a little better than I do.

I understand (at least at a high level) how DNA creates proteins (through RNA and stuff). Furthermore, I can understand how a single protein can in a very small matter change the physical characteristics of a living organism. But I really don't understand how various proteins can combine to create all the characteristics of a complex animal (how on earth could DNA code for a hand?)

But, whether I understand it or not, the DNA in my body still goes about creating its proteins, which in some way define me. Should I understand it any more or any less, it will function no differently.

I don't understand how Fergie and/or the Black Eyed Peas were ever popular. I can understand the popularity of hip-hop, how there are cultural reasons for its emergence, and that it can have a good beat. But not Fergie, I simply don't understand that.

But, well, I don't have to. I'm past the point in my life where I work a job which has a radio on in the background, so I never really have to worry about listening to something that I don't for periods of time longer than one commercial.

And, last but certainly not least (and not last if I was going to make an all=inclusive list of things I don't understand), I don't understand women.

And unlike all the other things I listed, well, I really really really want to.

Or to put it better, I don't understand the signals that I get when I'm in a relationship, or trying to get into a relationship. I just plain don't, at all. They contradict one another. And, at last, when I get a theory to describe relationships and women in them, something comes along to contradict it.

And this maddens me. It maddens me that no only do I not succeed all the time, but that a lot of the time I can't really even tell. It's like I'm playing a game that I want to win. As much as anything I've ever wanted in my life. And I dream about the game. But when I'm playing it, I don't know the rules, and I can't even tell what the score is. (Sure, sometimes I can tell if I'm losing badly, but thats about it). I just blindly try things, and I hope they work out.

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