Brandon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | ESL Teacher |
| Location | Woodland Hills, California , United States |
| Introduction | My name is Brandon Fike and I'm from California. I graduated from University in 2003 which a Bachelor's Degree in both Psychology and Philosophy. I then spent the majority of 2003-2009 teaching English in China and also a bit in Thailand. In 2010 I enlisted in the US Navy, entered the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) for one year and then served from 2011-2015 as an Aviation Electronics Technician and was stationed in Atsugi, Japan. I completed three 6-month deployments on the USS George Washington and received an Honorable Discharge in June 2015. I will return to China in September 2015 to teach English again as well as collect photos, memories and include both in this blog. |
| Interests | Photography, Travelling, Movies, Mandarin Chinese, Music, History, Philosophy, Psychology |
| Favorite Movies | Interstellar, Guardians of the Galaxy, Django Unchained, Tombstone, Gran Torino, The Elephant Man, Brazil |
| Favorite Music | Depends. My tastes change a lot. |
| Favorite Books | The Hero with a Thousand Faces- J. Campbell, The Closing of The American Mind - A. Bloom, Valis - Philip K. Dick, The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley, The Theory of Money and Credit - Ludwig Von Mises, Pragmatism - William James, Public Opinion - Walter Lippman, The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard, The Open Society and its Enemies - Karl Popper, Tragedy and Hope - Carroll Quigley, Morals and Dogma - Albert Pike, Xun Zi, Lao Zi, Mo Zi, Zhuang Zi, Kong Zi, Histories - Herodotus, The Problems of Philosophy - B. Russell, The Problem of China - B. Russell, The History of Western Philosophy - B. Russell, The Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall, Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnengut, End The Fed - Ron Paul, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil, The World as Will and Representation - Schopenhauer, Engines of Creation - Eric Drexler, 1984 - George Orwell, The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang, Faust - Goethe, The Complete Works of Plato and Aristotle, The Holographic Universe - Michale Talbot, Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson, The Dumbing Down of America - Charlotte Iserbyt, Propaganda - Edward Bernays, Madness and Civilization - Michel Foucault |
Is this question rhetorical or not?