I took GREL last year and it blew my mind too, haha. These classes aren't helping me at all... I feel more lost than I ever did. Life is completely a dream to me right now. I've got a lot of stuff goin' on in my head.
Thanks to those of you who commented on my last post. I'm pretty bad at putting my thoughts in words so I'm sorry these posts aren't as put together as I'd like them to be. Guess I'll go off and start thinkin' about My World View, now... whatever that is. I feel like I can't really even do anything with my Brainmap because I'm just becoming more confused, and less clear on what my own world view is. What the heck!
K not leavin' yet... on a completely different note (that I started thinking about as I skimmed other blogs).... Politics. I've always kind of followed the big elections, ya know? I'm so glad I'm now at an age that I understand a little more about the world and therefore understand a little more about the way politicians gamble with our lives. It all seems like such a huge game to me now. I have become SO SO SO skeptical of our government in recent years just because of all the dumb scandals and lies. WHY? Shouldn't our government be something of a respite for our weary minds? When I think about how things are, I'm so stressed. I mean, Hell, look at our president! WHAT?! How on earth has our democracy deteriorated so quickly? Politicians are ignoring laws left and right, doing whatever the hell they want to do, and getting paid mad $$ for it. What about us? What about my dad who works as a professor with a low salary to support my family? What about me and the fact that after college I'll be in $60K debt? It's all about who's at the top now. It really is.
"If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then [life's] a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game." - The Catcher in the Rye
2 comments:
Don't worry, you're not the only one who's questioning a lot of stuff and looking for all these answers. I'm in the same boat and I'm sure a lot of other people are too. But I guess like it's like we learned; that we should never really ever stop developing our world views as we are constantly seeing different points of view. But it's definitely more than a little frustrating at times. I don't think anyone really has all the answers. I definitely agree with the topics you brought up about politics and the government. I didn't really start delving into what was going on until recently, but the rights that it seems we are loosing are astounding. Our privacy is almost completely gone, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before freedom of speech and expression are targeted, if they're not already. The only way to stop this is to get the word out, let other people know what's going on too, like Plato's Allegory. We have to decide if really do want to be free citizens who can think for themselves.
I think this class has made everyone think about what is true and what isn't. Who are we to say that something is true until we have examined all of the other possibilities and decided that they are false. What is a correct world view, and what isnt if everything can be proven wrong? Is anything real at all for that matter, when we are skeptical about everything. Just a thought.
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