On Posting IB TOK Blogs

I have not written anything on this blog for at least a week.

I realized this is not just due to a lack of willingness to pour emotion into a non-spontaneous topic when I could and rather would be writing something of personal enjoyment (actually it is), but instead a lack of awareness as to what makes a topic "tok'able."

I've decided to compile a list filled to the brim with criteria for "good TOK topics," or "what makes a TOK topic legitimate." I am using - I assure you - only the definitions supplied to me by experience. Hopefully, this will help the non-spontaneous and therefore lesser creative juices flow.

1. An ethical dilema. Rather, just use the word ethical, or some combination of the letters. I learned that teachers purposely take ethical statements related to their subject and toss them towards 8th period twice a week because they are "rooted in TOK stuff," as a person once said.

2. The term art. I find it especially "tok'able" if the word art is paired with an interrogative.

3. Truth. Not necessarily anything about it - just say the word... over and over. Interrogatives also fit nicely here - specifically, "what is..."

4. The concept of perception. When you have used perception, use perspective. After perspective, point of view. Done with point of view? Move to personal observation. Personal observation used twice already? Subjective experience. With this you should have finished the paper, but if not... unique time-space equivalence plot.

5. Morality, and no it is not directly spawned from Christian imagery. Throw in a couple references to "good and evil," "what makes it so," and if its a discussion, just say, "who are we to decide?" It doesn't make you seem smart - just loud enough to maybe nullify the ridiculousness of quantifying subjective experience (Haha! Thank you #4).

6. Logical appeals. Inherent logical fallacy. Syllogisms. Logic as a...

7. Way of knowing. This hardly has to be cognizant. Step 1: say the three words a bunch. Step 2: ???? Step 3: PROFIT!

8. Existence. Use Neo as an example, and then Descartes. Then go crawl into your IBTOK inspired existential hole with Camus.

9. The word "theoretically." If you cant test something directly, you are probably capable of making an argument for it being true. If someone argues against you, say they are wrong, because they cant "know for sure." Then sprinkle the word absolute in with your next 6 sentences (bonus points for using it in each).

I've run out of ideas (meaning I've been writing for 15 minutes and am no longer interested).

But now juices are flowing... theoretically.