Equilibriums, aging, and censorship

Many much more wise (and also older) people than me have recently been explaining to me that I might have a tendency towards taking very hard line views on different topics. The same people have also tried to comfort me that it's all very normal and in due time my views will stop swinging from one extreme to another and I'll find my balance. Balance and equilibriums seem to be all the rage now, too. The topic keeps recurring in yoga all the time and most things at work revolve around finding equilibriums and balance. It's a cliche, but life seems to indeed be a very complex balancing act.

In light of this, it seems that as you begin your life, you get the grips on the basics and when that's done, the pendulum is set in motion and it starts off oscillating between extremes. If we can trust the wiser and more experienced people, the pendulum will slowly slow down and work towards the equilibrium in the center, which should represent the balance you find after life has taught you some more lessons and you (hopefully) have also learned the lessons. In a way I guess this is somewhat of a sad or depressing thought. That life will eventually mold you into a person that knows better than to take hard stances. But I guess at the same time it's also kind of comforting.

And speaking of stances and hard lines, the discussion around the Finnish internet censorship program has been heating up recently. It appears that yesterday a fellow student from the university decided to mirror Matti Nikki's original site criticizing the censorship practices and disclosing the list of censored sites on the school servers. This, interestingly enough, led to the school deactivating his account, which seems somewhat out of proportion if you consider that technically I don't believe he did anything really wrong. And the most interesting thing is that apparently the school's representatives are not willing to disclose any sort of information on why they have done what they have done to him. This is very appalling, especially considering that the Helsinki University of Technology is supposed to be one of the better schools in Finland. And to think that the school also engages in behavior such as this, to blatantly censor sites that do not host anything illegal and just criticize a completely and utterly silly law which should never have been passed in the first place (according to EFFI and some experts from the University of Turku's department of legal stuff, the law might even be very unconstitutional). Anyway, the best of luck to Jyry on his quest to find justice and for taking a prominent and hard stance to help a cause that tries to keep the freedom of speech alive.