A Recollection of Subjects

Looking back over the last few weeks, I have conducted a simple analysis of the wide variety of opinions that have been presented to me through seminar discussions, readings, and research. There seems to be a distinctive divide in the opinion base amongst the peer body and intellectuals. The chasm seperates the altruistic-idealists and the objectivists. The majority is composed of the altruistic-idealists, which would be expected to be found on a college campus stocked full of naive "budding humanitarians." The objectivists, although the clear minority, is strongly opinionated and presents a good argument at that. The topics of this past weak were clearly more attractive to the objectivist faction, and kicked up some high tensions from the altrusitic-idealists. Realism struck a high note, but made a rational and pure case for itself. Despite its strong dislike by the majority, it clearly presented the only pragmatic option in the realm of international relations. Although, I would say that the majority of us agreed that despite the almost vulgar reationality of realism, its theories and predictions cannot be fully discredited.