.- quantum uncertainty -.

I mean... wow.

I just had an epiphany.

My interest in sociology has its roots, or at least one root, in Picket Fences. That show is ALWAYS about pluralism, changes in society and culture, taking the outsiders and treating them differently until someone on the show is like, no, dude, that's wrong.

I just watched an episode from the first season called Nuclear Meltdowns and in it, there was a case about religious freedom (goat sacrificers) and there was an alledged case of incest. Instead, it turned out to be a case of polygamy, because the three people involved (an older woman, a younger woman and an older man) were Mormons and only posed as a mother/father/daughter due to the fact that polygamy is against the law.

And there was Judge Henry Bone, sitting on the bench, head exploding. He called the lawyers into chambers and there was this talk about how society's definition of a family is changing. He said that the traditional interpretation of "family" was drawn up in the 1800s. But...

"That interpretation is no longer valid. Insurance laws, marriage laws, inheritance laws are all being rewritten to recognize new kinds of domestic partnerships. Maybe polygamy won't be embraced. But the traditional concept of 'family' in this country no longer has meaning."

It was always this part of the show, the social issues part, that interested me. Sure, there's other fun stuff, too -- Lauren Holly has long been a crush of mine, pre-Picket Fences, even -- but the core of it is how the Brock family and the town of Rome, Wisconsin, deals with all these... things thrown at them, mostly socially speaking.

It's pretty awesome.

Jimmy: Society always pushed morality on us. Good or bad, it was clear. Now, society's pushing tolerance.
Jill: And that's good.
Jimmy: Yeah, but I feel that the country is coming into a moral adolescence. Sometimes freedom comes at the expense of structure, and that can be a little frightening.
Jill: Oh, come on, sweetheart. Don't overreact. I mean, we're always gonna be a land of convention. There will always be some religions that like to kill ducks, and there will always be some philosophies that skew the interpretation of the traditional family, but we'll always be a land of convention and social norms. Especially Rome.

Cue Kenny walking in with his two new girlfriends -- identical, long-lost twins, Ellen and Elena.

I love this show. For real.

To bed with me.

I honestly don't know how on earth I'm getting through university, because I feel like I am constantly BSing my way through everything.

And yet, I have a 3.34 GPA and I got accepted into the Honours program.

Is it just me or is academia pure BS and I'm just getting that now?

Discuss. Because I'm going to class in 20 minutes and will be sitting there, bored out of my gourd from 1:15-4pm and could use the distraction.

(On the bright side, the response paper is done.)

I wonder if people who study sociology do so because they don't understand societal norms, values and rules.

I know that I've had issues in the past with "fitting in" with others in social interactions. I wonder if most sociologists are like that, too.