I caught up on the reading, at least.

Good morning everyone. Guess who's still going to get their blog done on time? I am. Hooray. Forgive me if I make little to no sense in this blog, as my brain definitely does not like working in the mornings. I must confess, I'm not positive yet quite what the deal is with the whole post-postmodernism thing. I read the article, but yeah... So, I'm not going to talk about that. Nope. I'm going to talk about... Cat's Cradle. And not just the book, but the string game for which it is named, which happens to be mentioned a number of times. Alrighty. Cat's Cradle, the never-ending game. The more it is played, the more complicated the string becomes,with a greater number of x's. Apparently, it is supposed to look like a cat and it's cradle, I guess, but it really doesn't. In this book, this game seems to represent things that are a constant search for something, as well as things Newt thinks have no meaning. Newt never saw any cat or its cradle in the string when his father shoved it in front of his face when he was little. A number of times, now, he has brought it up to argue a point against something. For example, when they were talking about religion, Newt simply asked, "See the cat? See the Cradle?" He implies that there is nothing to be found, and although people keep practicing religion, it is foolish to do so. Aside from Newt and his sensitivity regarding the game, the cat's cradle seems to be tied to the idea of "pure science," or "pure research." The goal of this is to increase knowledge. It is not to better mankind, or to use the knowledge. The knowledge, or "truth," is only to be used to gain even more knowledge. Dr. Breed even states that "the more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." Their use of knowledge to search for knowledge is a never-ending game, as there is no single truth that they could discover which would give them all the knowledge there is. And the knowledge isn't even used for anything else. Essentially, this "pure research" is about as productive and time consuming as playing cat's cradle. Okays, I'm done. See you all in a couple of hours...