The Start of Real Education - Graduation

We, the students of any university, are just machines, like the guy sitting next to you. Image that, when we graduate, we run the same functions insides our brains, we make the same analysis, because we are created out of the same model. Maybe, just maybe, you get talent, so you are slightly more efficient than others, but you still run the same function. What's the function, the function is all the things we learn from all the classes in universities, high-schools...The function is the ways of doing things they taught us, and they taught us all together.
So why do they create machines like us, in the first place? Does the cost of creating a real computer based machine exceeds the cost of educating a human-being more than 13 years? I don't think so. Even worse, we make mistake and machines do not. So why?

What differentiate us from machines besides the creativities of very few super-smart people is that we continue to learn after our functions are set (i.e. after we graduate). Machines don't, machines just do what they are created to do, and never get better unless someone update them. But, we update ourselves.
So, really, when you finally get your degrees and sit back thinking that you complete your education and it's time to use the knowledge you've learned to make tons of money, you are basically wrong. That never happened. Why would a company pays tons of money to a machine that can be found anywhere? If that's true, your whole class are gonna make tons of money. So, you know that's not true.
You'll never make tons of money unless you become a better machine. Thus, after graduation, what you gonna do is update yourself, because the real education is just started - a education for your own.

Thoughts

Thinking is one of the most common behaviour of human beings. Some people think much, some think little. People like me think all the time, and have to write down some of the thoughts once for a while. That is good because it makes me very productive even though I am not a professional writer not even an amateur one.
Usually thinking is being encouraged, but it is not always good. We learned too much until one day we want to explain everything with causalities. But you know, some things just happen, like love. And some things, though they have causality relation with others, but those causalities are not worth you to waste your time.
However, thoughts give birth to groundbreaking ideas, though it also makes you hesitate. Back to Aristotle, "moderation is good".
I found an interesting fact, that people think more when they are alone, because their minds are not occupied. Just observing that how many song-writers become less productive after they get married. Therefore, if you find yourself stress out, take sometimes to hang out with your friends, it really helps. It will stop the accumulating of depressing thoughts in your head.

Thoughts on illegal drug policy

Every once a while, I would like to write something, my thoughts, especially many ideas.
I am the kind of person that think a lot and hope to find someone that is as smart as me and can communicate thoughts to each others.
Yesterday, I was watching the news on TV. I heard about this reinforcement on criminal law being newly put on, and some of the articles are about increasing punishment on illegal drug trades. Then, I think about economics. That, say if because of the law, drug trading becomes more difficult, the price of those drugs are gonna increase based on supply and demand. If the price increases, people would likely to take greater risk to sell those drugs. Then, potentially, the effects of the increased punishment can be diminished. The results will be differ from people's differences on risk-preference.
I thought the best way is somehow to reduce the demand of illegal drugs, instead of reducing the supply.

Growth of GDP

I was reading William Easterly's "The Elusive Quest for Growth". When I was reading about the fact that US economy obtains a sustained growth of 2 percent, I began to thought about happiness. Why do we, human, always pursue after the growth of economy? Going after GDP growth inevitably makes our lives more intense especially in service related industries.
Everybody had a choice between wealth and everything else. If you want to be wealthy, how wealthy do you want to be? The truth is Time is the only resource that we have, and making money is not the only way to signify our meaning of existence or our happiness. Thus, we shall all make a smart choice to distribute our time to the important things in our lives.
For me, I would like to have only enough money for my family to spend, enough reputation for myself to be proud of, enough friend to spare my loneliness, enough love to warm myself up when I feel cold, and enough time to be with my families. What else do I expect? However, when I devote into one thing, I will lose the others to some extend. It's all about what is enough.
Desire and happiness are complements; but they are also contradicting each other. The key is to pursue a moderate amount of desire.

Politics

     Somebody like politics; somebody don't like them. Somebody lives in politics, somebody thinks they can live without them.
     In my paper dictionary, politics is "ideas and activities relating to gaining and using power in a country, city etc." However, I do not agree with it. I think the real politics is about people, about creating a better  society.

     In ancient China, the Emperor's most concern was how to strength his "political power", how to remain sited in the throne and how to pass his throne safely to one of his sons. Many very famous politicians were using any kind of methods trying to fool people to obey the Emperor, because they know the power come from people.

     There are many different political systems around the globe. There are capitalism, socialism, communism etc. Is there one that is definitely better than others? Maybe there is. Maybe different political systems suit in different culture in different time. If nobody believe in logic, how do you teach science to them?

     I believe in liberty and justice. And I believe that people believe them at first. But just you know, it is not like a clean slate out there.