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  1. Oct 2019
    1. he first thing Dr. West says is a quote from Socrates: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Introspection is essential. However in America’s culture, self-examination is often overlooked because “weapons of mass distraction,” as Dr. West calls them, surround us and are being crammed into our brains. These “weapons” are superficial things such as our reputation and image, rather than issues of sustenance like what kind of person are we? Or, how are our relationships with the people around us who matter to us? In Dr. West’s speech, he called for everyone to ask themselves this question: What are you going to do with what you have here in your space and time? 
    1. That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. The poetry does not matter It was not (to start again) what one had expected.
    2. intolerable

      mentioned in class today.