It's been long since this blog was last updated. I was on a summer break in Nepal, and just before a few days of my flight back, the Nepali doctors messed up with my health, and consequently I suffered from jaundice. So I had to stay until the second week of January in Nepal and I had the opportunity to witness how the rhetoric of "New Nepal" was being implemented.
Also the airline companies fucked up my flying schedule and I couldn't get into the departure area at LA because I arrived there a day early and my flight was 7:47 am the next morning. Either I had to pay 150 dollars and fly on the same day, or try find a hotel for the night with all my baggage.
Moving on, the events in Nepal have persuaded me to study politics - if not as a major, then a few courses in it. Max Weber's "Politics as a Vocation" is particularly an interesting essay that I had to read for class today. In it, Weber talks of Hinduism and Upanishads at times. He also talked of Krishna and Arjun in the Gita when Krishna explains to Arjun that he should do what warriors are supposed to do when faced with the complication of fighting against his own father-like figures. However, Weber spells Arjun as Ardun, but seems like these things are trivial because for the Occident these figures of the Orient are abstract and that only some of their ideas are important.
I will try to write more on Weber as my understanding grows. Right now here are the links if you want to read his papers.
Politics as a Vocation
Science as a Vocation
Combine these two essays and try to understand what Weber might say of political science.
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Also the airline companies fucked up my flying schedule and I couldn't get into the departure area at LA because I arrived there a day early and my flight was 7:47 am the next morning. Either I had to pay 150 dollars and fly on the same day, or try find a hotel for the night with all my baggage.
Moving on, the events in Nepal have persuaded me to study politics - if not as a major, then a few courses in it. Max Weber's "Politics as a Vocation" is particularly an interesting essay that I had to read for class today. In it, Weber talks of Hinduism and Upanishads at times. He also talked of Krishna and Arjun in the Gita when Krishna explains to Arjun that he should do what warriors are supposed to do when faced with the complication of fighting against his own father-like figures. However, Weber spells Arjun as Ardun, but seems like these things are trivial because for the Occident these figures of the Orient are abstract and that only some of their ideas are important.
I will try to write more on Weber as my understanding grows. Right now here are the links if you want to read his papers.
Politics as a Vocation
Science as a Vocation
Combine these two essays and try to understand what Weber might say of political science.