According to the excerpt reading, we are all zombie-like, barely existing in the world. Personally, I can see how one may think that, but I also believe not all humans are living like that. Clearly the one who developed this theory was one of the exceptions, considering he was wise enough to notice the way we live.
However, I do believe there are ways that the theory proves to be true in our daily lives. We are often consumed with simply where we are going and the quickest way to get there. There are always new gadgets, new technology, that is supposed to make our lives more enjoyable but are simply taking away from our experiance. As we walk down the streets we don't notice the way the air smells or the way our feet are hitting the ground, because we are too consumed with drowning out the surrounding world with our iPods and trying our best to be as unnoticable as possible. We become so obsessed with miniscule things that we think will make our lives easier at the moment. We believe that paying 150 for a new pair of shoes will change the way we go about our daily lives because it will make us better and more presentable. But will we remember these things in 20 years?
Yet, at the same time, will we remember the way our foot felt on the pavement one day in 20 years?
Although we may not live our lives remembering every aspect of our dreams or our childhood, we still remember the most crucial and life changing parts.
I personally think I have the ability to notice when the space between my thumb and forfinger has an itchy feeling, or that the way im sitting right now is slightly cutting off the circulation in my leg and hurting the bone in my butt, and that my pinky toe is hurting. Is this not experiancing what my body is feeling? I feel every aspect of pain in my body, and every part that feels okay, I just choose to ignore the parts that are hurting because I am in class and there are other things to be focusing on. Like writing what I'm feeling.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
summary
Our goal in life is to completely experiance and understand our reality.
However it is impossible to do this imediately because we only experiance our reality in fragments. One of the most important things Freud contributed to society is his demonstration that an average person is nothing comared to what the person could be.
We barely know ourselves mentally because we dont remember exxact memories and dreams. For our bodies, we only know enough to know when we want or need basic things. Beyond that, we barely know ourselves at all.
The only way we can fully appreciate things in life, we first have to unlearn the way we’ve been taught to live.
Many don’t realize how, when we fall asleep into a dream we forget our real lives as quickly as we forget our dreams in real life, showing how the way we exeraince things ins always the same and not very deep. We are just as alienated when we are awake as we are when we are asleep or unconcious.
What we consider normal is something that is barely a fraction of what things are really like when they are “normal” because we are so separated from the actual experiance. There are two different types of alienation. The normal alienation which is someone who’s just like everyone else who’s experiancing all the same kinds of alientaion, and that which is labelled bad and crazy by the normal people.
Society tries to make us all these “normal” people with the same traditional alienation but those “normal” people are also the ones who have killed millions of their fellow normal men. Even these normal people are all flawed.
The way we behave is simply a reaction to our experiances and how we see things. If our experiances are limited and destroyed, our actions will be the same.
Because we get a limited version of our experiance, we then loose sight of our deeds and purpose in life, and if that is taken then we are no longer a functioning part of humanity. We are all equally able to change eachother and have a positive or negative impact.
If we don’t fix the way we are living than we are going to destroy ourselves. The way we are experiancing is not opening up our way to view the world but closing it.
Because we are limited in our experaince, than all the other aspects of life suffers and we are less than what we could be. But each new child has a chance at being better because it is brand new in the world and innocent. It has not yet been taught these destructive forms of “experiancing” life. So all hope is not yet lost.
However it is impossible to do this imediately because we only experiance our reality in fragments. One of the most important things Freud contributed to society is his demonstration that an average person is nothing comared to what the person could be.
We barely know ourselves mentally because we dont remember exxact memories and dreams. For our bodies, we only know enough to know when we want or need basic things. Beyond that, we barely know ourselves at all.
The only way we can fully appreciate things in life, we first have to unlearn the way we’ve been taught to live.
Many don’t realize how, when we fall asleep into a dream we forget our real lives as quickly as we forget our dreams in real life, showing how the way we exeraince things ins always the same and not very deep. We are just as alienated when we are awake as we are when we are asleep or unconcious.
What we consider normal is something that is barely a fraction of what things are really like when they are “normal” because we are so separated from the actual experiance. There are two different types of alienation. The normal alienation which is someone who’s just like everyone else who’s experiancing all the same kinds of alientaion, and that which is labelled bad and crazy by the normal people.
Society tries to make us all these “normal” people with the same traditional alienation but those “normal” people are also the ones who have killed millions of their fellow normal men. Even these normal people are all flawed.
The way we behave is simply a reaction to our experiances and how we see things. If our experiances are limited and destroyed, our actions will be the same.
Because we get a limited version of our experiance, we then loose sight of our deeds and purpose in life, and if that is taken then we are no longer a functioning part of humanity. We are all equally able to change eachother and have a positive or negative impact.
If we don’t fix the way we are living than we are going to destroy ourselves. The way we are experiancing is not opening up our way to view the world but closing it.
Because we are limited in our experaince, than all the other aspects of life suffers and we are less than what we could be. But each new child has a chance at being better because it is brand new in the world and innocent. It has not yet been taught these destructive forms of “experiancing” life. So all hope is not yet lost.
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