Sociology is really interesting and i'm quite sad that i have to drop it in favour of philosophy. it's a major screw-up on the admin side and now i attended one wk of lectures on sociology instead of philosophy and i dunno how to register for my tutorials for philosophy. sigh. and after today's lecture, i really want to take sociology.

Hobbes said that all humans are innately selfish, in his words, 'nasty' and 'brutish'. Yet, my lecturer proclaimed otherwise today. Apparently, sociological research has shown that even in the face of adverse circumstances, social order remains. She showed us this photo of men queueing up with containers in their hands. It was taken right after the 2006 tsunami, and these people were fishermen queueing up for petrol for their motorboats so they could go fishing and not starve to death. They knew that there wasn't enough petrol to go around, and they knew that if they were the unlucky few who couldn't get petrol, not only they, but their families would starve as well. YET there were no fights, only patient queueing. Amazing, isn't it?

My lecturer said a lot more. That was a rather superficial and isolated example of the issue she expounded on today but it's enough to make me think.

I felt a bit -idunno- insufficient? trivial? frivolous? to think about all these.