The Wade

Truth and Beauty

I finished reading the book Brave New World today and upon completing the book I realized something. This something was that there are two kinds of people who define our society. Those people are the people who seek truths(scientists, journalists, and historians) and those who create beauty(writers, artists, and musicians). The inverse also holds true. Those who create truths and those who seek beauty.

The ones who create truth are those who wish people to blindly follow. Their weapons are propaganda and sly rhetoric. Those who seek beauty are much simpler. They seek things. They are materialists.

Truth and beauty are the two ideals that make our society what it is. Truth creates freedom and from freedom democracy. Without the inquistiveness of scientists and journalists we would still live in tyranny or oligarchy. Beauty, on the other hand, inspires and gives meaning to life. The feeling of awe when looking on a great masterpiece of art, such as Michelangelo’s Pieta, is one that no materials can give. The same goes for literature. The classics are classic because of their great capacity for this inspiration.This inspiration compels us to continue on this quest and harvest the fruits of our labors wherever those fruits fall.

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Apple

So Apple’s new iPod and iPhone software came out today. Multitasking with apps! Finally Pandora can run while I check my email! And wallpapers! Neat! But really you can only get these awesome features with the newest iPod touch and iPhone 3GS and of course the iPhone 4. I bought my iPod a year ago. Older iPod Touch users got the iBook app and synced mail. Synced mail is really cool; however, I really wanted a background and once again Apple has failed me. That makes me sad. Although I can understand while multitasking would be near impossible with the worse processor on the older iPod Touch’s I do not understand why I can’t get a wallpaper. That is just silly.

Please Steve Jobs give me wallpapers on my 2nd Gen iPod Touch!

Apparently he claimed in an email to a message that was sent to him similar to what I just said that “The icon animations with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough.” So I guess older iPod Touch’s and iPhone 3s are too low tech to run a background…unless you jailbreak them.