Deep Thunder 10/23

The question I am posing midway through this semester is; why do my classmates seem to be raising the same questions as each other and even, in cases, the next week’s theorist?

Example: After Beaudrillard, we began to question what reality lay behind the signs of the Simulacra. We wondered; what is real? In addition, if there is even one reality. Now we are introduced to Derrida who believes in an outright lack of a stable referent.

Another Example: A curvy curve-busting classmate told me after one class that she thought God is real, not real in a sense of existing in quantifiable matter, but rather, quantifiable influence. Although she is not as well spoken as the theorists for next week (but has a very nice smile), the question will be explored.

At this point, I am torn between three hypotheses for the coincidences.

This phenomenon is Jungian and a ‘sign’ of the presence of collective consciousness.
These are natural progressions in the flow of thought and questioning.
We are being led down and ideological yellow brick road by our instructor.

I suppose I am a -hypothesist- hypothesizer?- and not a theorist (theorist/hypothesist-izer) I will continue to perform my research by reading Marx and other theorists of ideology. Then whatever is next on the syllabus. Questioning ideological motives? Who would have thought.