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Posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 22:24:54
I've been finding a lot of pretty good science documentaries on youtube.
I found on on MSF: doctors without borders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcb8tAaGjWw
It was interesting because... Well... There are wait lists to do it. Of course there are. And because... It emerges that (obviously) it isn't about helping others. And that helping... Is a kind of compulsion. And that, yeah. That is the way that that is.
It was also interesting because it showed aspects of community life. I am becoming obsessed with this idea of 'kinds of people'. I can't articulate it very clearly... I know there are of course borderline cases... I know that it is mostly about socialization... But it is about people who are independent workers / learners (who thrive on aspects of that) and people who are compulsory socializers. Where you need to keep the latter away from the former so that the former are able to work and flourish... Otherwise the antics of the latter will prevent them from functioning at all...
but then... what about most places round the world... where most peoples live communally...
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But something about what I observed in the documentary... Made me think that there is hope even within collectivist communities. Even for the kids in Africa etc... It is hard to know what the lot of others really is... We always hear a biased view depending on what the media wants us to believe. I found the documentaries interesting because they so obviously aren't about that... And so they revealed it perhaps more naturally than they would have otherwise. Or perhaps I'm merely blinded by the observation that there were local workers (nurses and doctors) who were competent. I guess I don't know anything about how they got to the positions they are in... How their lot got to be different.
The clash, too. For the local workers. I see that / why it is that the immigrant workers are mostly despised. Come in on your big white horse laugh at how things are done here, lament the substandard quality of care etc etc etc and then ride on out again. 'Easy for you'. Except it isn't of course. But it is a way of coping. And it is better than the alternative, obviously. Of staying at home being buried under the paperwork. Of 'informing' people about their 'options' for possible 'elective treatments'. It is fine being in a developing nations warzone... If only you get to be in certain postions / roles. It is of course all about that. It is one thing to be temporary... It is another thing for it to be your life sentence.
Mosely has grown on me after the history of medicine. Here we have some science:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxv2FzfUDQ&list=PL74C52DA96E9F8695
coooooool. i did not know that about the elements. how cool is that?
youtube. wow. there are all kinds of lectures, too. i mean... stanford. mit. you name it... and textbooks, too... lecture notes... there are so very many things to love about the ((((((((((internet))))))))))
Posted by Partlycloudy on September 15, 2013, at 10:09:58
In reply to science documentaries, posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 22:24:54
I love them too. And ITunes has free University courses from all over the world to audit for free.
All that knowledge just to access for the price of bandwidth. It is incredible.
We love our live streaming video service that gives us unlimited access to documentary films and television shows. Like the BBC used to produce before they decided we were all too stupid for it.
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