Journalism Class - Wednesday October 5

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Outside the door of the Journalism Classroom is a sandwich board which reads:

Emergency Political Headquarters for the Student Newspaper
Free food, drink and computer terminals within.

Inside, Spider is again distracted, working on something on his laptop. The screen behind him is lit up, however, and reads the following:

Attention Students:

Today's discussion topic, as most of you have guessed, is 'Ugliness'. I am going somewhere with this, be patient. I'm also not participating yet for a very specific reason.

The rest of the screens are dark and in the back of the classroom are several large coffee machines, a huge tray of various pastries and sandwiches and a small refridgerator and microwave. Arranged in that area are several computers obviously borrowed from the school lab and a large sign that reads:

Emergency Political Headquarters

Comments

[chasingangela]

Angela swivels in her seat to face Chloe. "You think? I feel like most people could at least agree on the general idea of what a hero is, but ugly is much more subjective."

[mycanonhatesme]

"Yeah, but at least everyone can agree that ugliness is bad," Chloe says. "It seemed like yesterday, no one could agree whether heroes are good people or bad people or stupid people."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Why's ugliness bad? If you didn't have ugliness with which to compare to beauty, would there, in fact, be beauty?" He looks a bit curious, having jumped into the conversation from a couple seats away.

[mycanonhatesme]

"Kind of like, if there were no good, how would we measure evil?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek nods, absently tapping a pencil. "Nothing seems as much of one thing as when you have an opposite for comparison."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe smiles softly, leaning back in her chair. "Philosophical thoughts like that have never really been my strongest point," she admits.

[chasingangela]

Angela nods and leans her chin on her hand. "Okay, but ... does ugly have to be bad? I mean, a newborn baby might be objectively ugly, but babies are still generally a pretty good thing."

[deadlikegeorge.livejournal.com]

George smothers a grin. She was of the opinion that all newborn babies were ugly.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander nods. "Some ugly is kind of interesting, too, when it's not eeeaghgh-run-away-run-away ugly. Like if it's chasing me with tentacles, no thanks, but otherwise, there's a sort of weird fascination thing."

[chasingangela]

Angela nods. "Right. There's the whole fascination people have with the grotesque."

[mycanonhatesme]

"Hmmm. I think I spoke too quickly. I didn't mean that like, ugly babies are bad. I just mean that compared to beauty, ugliness is worse." Chloe shrugs. "Maybe I should just stay out of this conversation like I did yesterday."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"No one's going to hold you here," Krycek says, continuing encouragingly. "But people are discussing, arguing other views - isn't that what the point of this is? No one said you were wrong."

[mycanonhatesme]

"With Professor Jerusalem? Who knows what the point of this is." Chloe smirks. "I'm just much better at arguing when it's a topic where you can change someone's mind."