Worst Moment in Philosophy 3/4

My favorite subject is Philosophy, and in the two years that I have studied it, I have thoroughly enjoyed it. There is absolutely nothing wrong I can say about the course, it's an amazing course, big ups to VCE for making such a well thought out course, bar the omissions from Descartes and Kuhn.

What I do remember as a lowlight of my year 12 philosophy class however, was the class itself. Particularly one student, on many occasions. Now I'm not going to bullshit: his name was Revanth Mantatikar, or some shit like that. Oh my god, where to begin with this atrocity, and my love hate relationship with him - that is, my love

Well first off, thanks for pissing on the bed of roses that was my favorite subject by making it tenuous, boring, and terribly repetitive. Like, I don't mind if people don't understand the course and ask relevant questions, that's completely fine. But there is a line to be drawn between relevant questions, and shit that makes me question the fabric of your existence in the course. It's like, where the hell did you pull that from, are you like retarded, how did you make that inference? Then there's the plain: you missed the point completely. And I mean, it's fine when it's a few times, but when it's every damn lesson, there needs to be an overhaul or some shit, goddamn.

But apart from the whole ineptitude and faggotry, there is a moment that strikes me as a highlight.

I remember for one of our assignments, we were given the winter break and then some (all up about a month) to make a presentation on what we thought of the Good Life. And as Revanth does, because his Mac was supposedly "built" for efforts like these, he decided to make a video depicting what he thought of the Good Life.

Okay, so background.

Callicles is a character who features in Plato's "Gorgias" text. Callicles thinks the Good Life is hedonism, he thinks sensual pleasure is the Good Life.

Socrates is a character who features in Plato's "Gorgias" text. Socrates believes that the Good Life can only be achieved through an orderly mind and through self control.

So for the video, where let me remind you readers - we were asked to present our ideas on what we thought to be "The Good Life", Revanth rehashes 3/4 of the text we studied in a contemporary style Jerry Springer debate. Yeah, real original. And for the last quarter of his video, he basically says, "I think moderation is the Good Life" for at least a good minute with different phrasing, and probably one really forgettable example.

But you know, doesn't sound that bad right; cue Sean O' Malley.

"Can you present that video again with Director's Commentary?"

Seriously, one of the most dick moves done to the whole class ever. Revanth of course, was oblivious, and under the impression that his cock was being sucked, proceeded to replay the video with director's commentary.

There was a scene where Callicles (played by Revanth) is exhibiting his hedonistic lifestyle. Cue the scene where he is showing off his car and his rims, and in perhaps the most philosophically relevant outburst I may ever hear in my life, rivaling the few and far between texts I've read from this millennium, Revanth says:

"Yeah my dad owns this car, it's a Toyota Prado".

Real fucking insightful, 5/5 stars for the director's commentary.

Cue to inside the house.

"This isn't my violin".

And probably mentioned a hundred times by M. Night Shyamalan in the making, one of his esteemed actors was doing the whole video with nothing to run with but a character bio of Socrates.

Oh how he pleaded

"I didn't give him the script or the text, all he says is improvised I swear"

Great Revanth, what can I make of that? That you had a whole month to prepare something worth watching and you didn't because you were too lazy to write a script? Because you were too incompetent to write a script? Excellent fucking job.

I don't know what score you were given for philosophy, but I sure hope you deserved it.