What’s next?

I’ve got about eight weeks left on my contract and I’m still uncertain if (and undecided whether) I want to stay here (in Korea) or try out China. Uncertain, because I’m waiting to see if my school will be given a budget to keep me. Undecided, because whether the school gets that budget or not, I’m not entirely sure I want to stay.

The administration is one factor, but also my health. The chiropractors just aren’t quite getting it done here. There’s another kind of chiropractic (called network chiropractic) available in Shanghai and Beijing. Of course, it’s available in America, too, but I need that strategic combination of chiropractic care and employment. Plus, China would be interesting.

I’m hoping that my school will get the funding so I can have time to take a trip to China and see if I like it, see if the chiro seems helpful. And if so, maybe move there next year.

We’ll see. I should find out the funding verdict on Monday.

Projections seeking out the dreamer

I've watched Inception a few times now and it and it's just fascinating every time.

But this last time I watched it, I'd been reading Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy", and this part of the movie suddenly stuck out. Where it explained that in shared dreaming, when the dreamer starts to make too many changes in the environment, the projections notice the strangeness of the dream and start looking for the dreamer to kill him/her, because they don't like being part of someone else's dream.

In comparing this with Nietzsche's "Apollian Dreamer" and "the will to power", it seemed this is what happens in revolutions. Someone takes power and exerts their dream on the rest of the population. When the people notice the strangeness of the dream, they don't want to be a part of it, and they go after the dreamer.

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