January 22, 2011

Hw # 32

In America its citizens have to pay to survive, and pay to die. I have been dying the second I was born. Since I was little I was exposed to a lot of deaths of people I loved around me, I believe this has subconsciously (until it surfaced where the death was directly connected to me) made me aware of the logistics of the life circle. There is no point in fighting the inevitable. I was fully aware of this before we started this unit, but I believe this unit open my eyes to realizing the horrendous part of death is not the death itself rather the industrial atrocities that manipulated it in our society. In the perspective death is even a release from the cruelties of our structures of power, perhaps this is why the moments before death are usually horrendous experiences because it enables the life to let go? This unit has helped me come to terms with reality, that there is injustice and cruelty in the world since the beginning of our time until the end, though it manifest indefinitely. Our history seems to be a constant game of fighting the evils, to encounter the next, "beyond mountains there are more mountains". The question is which infinite (during a lifetime) game do you want to play? We have focused a lot upon the fact that time is finite and is constantly dying and what it would be like to be in "heaven" or a certain moment of eternity? I think we neglected the fact that even though many things are constantly changing ultimately we deal with the same predicament and rules forever, until we die and reach neutrality, another formation of particles, or the whirlwind of universal energy or the thing none of us have ever thought of.

4 comments:

  1. Eloise,

    Great last line.

    If you theorize that the structures of power (CEOs, generals, bishops, legislators, etc.) have united, then use a phrase like "structures of power". When you use the word "government" in that way, in English, it sounds simplistic.

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  2. the structures of power, of course, might be coordinated by or represented by the leaders (CEOs, generals, etc) but aren't identical to those leaders.

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  3. History repeats itself, not only in big but in small scales, every life is a parody of the whole of our history, from making/learning an alphabet to the death of nations and of people. which makes me think that everything is together, and alive. Not only in a literal sense. There are millions upon billions of cells in a human body , just as in countries or the world! everything repeats endlessly and to find out big answers, you have to learn the small ones.

    Anyway, back to the topic. Life is a constant game of fighting, but who are we fighting? Throughout life, almost all evils are imagined or they are closer than you think. You can even see it in writing. Can you think of one fiction ( I use fiction because it better shows who we are and what we think) novel where the evil cannot be a THEM? someone so irrivocably different as to be inhuman? But in real life, the enemy is not a them but an us. This is why fiction is so different from reality, not because of fantastic deeds or abilities, but those who you are fighting. We put those we fight as thems. Even in your post, you make those you dislike a them by calling them cruel, unjust and horrendous.

    i am sorry but i have realized that i keep getting off topic, i am just in a grand speech kind of mood

    Liam

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  4. My goodness! I almost forgot about you Eloise! Sorry xD

    You have some really strong ideas here (the structures of power Andy mentioned, game of fighting evils, neutrality, etc.) but your overall post seems like it was cut short! I would have really liked to read your thoughts on certain examples or more in-depth explanations (you deal a ton of absolutes in this post, before you make such statements you should dig deep). Anywho, your ideas themselves are concrete, and the whole thing was articulated well for the short length of the post- though it left me wanting more.

    I look forward to reading you blog in the next unit (for the short time that I'll actually be here...),

    Evan

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