do you think there is a severe shortage of actual deep thinking in our culture and society? or do you suppose we're all too deep and analyse everything too deeply and read too much into everything? if the former why do you suppose that is? i mean do you think that too much value is placed on superficial things such as outward appearance and so on so that cultivating our minds is neglected? or do you think that we analyse everything so deeply that we neglect to appreciate the beauty of the things we're analysing. i'm specifically referring to the arts here, eg. painting etc, novels etc, etc, etc, etc. i personally think that maybe we have an oddly juxtaposed way of looking at life. we place so much value on external appearance while at the same we analyse everything very deeply at the same time. all the while neglecting the in between states of being happy with our bodies and other people's bodies and appreciating beauty for what it is, ie. beauty. i don't know. that's what i think. feel free to disagree with me. i was also thinking about sex the other day (not actual imagining things etc but just the way society deals with sex) and what i thought was that the victorians were so strongly opposed to the whole idea of sexuality and so on that anything that could possibly be deemed sexual was covered up. now we've gone the exact opposite way in that everything is over sexualised, including girls much younger than what should be. luckily i think human nature is such that it will balance itself out and one day (maybe not in our lifetime) we will be quite comfortable with ourselves, and the natural processes of our bodies and so on. in that way we'll become more animal-like and at the same time less animal-like because it won't be this carnal lust that we're giving in to but something balanced and considered. obviously it'll still be passionate and everything because i don't see how it couldn't be and i don't see the point in it if it isn't but... well i think (hope) you know what i'm trying to say.
wow, block of text much.
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my brain is asleep. i just worked for like 3 hours straight on my traditional cultures project. i'm still only half done and i worked all through last week too!
Friday, May 15, 2009
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it can't be that hard can it?
no it's not hard. staring at a computer screen for 3 hours makes me sleepy. that's the life i see stretching out ahead of me. hours of sleepily staring at my computer. it's not the writing that takes a long time (i wrote a page) but all the reading and corroborating facts and so on.
what i should add is that i didn't work very consistently through last week. i think i worked on it on tuesday and for a half hour on wed.
hmm, i no what u mean with the human nature balancing thing. Eventually we will reach an equilibrium.
And yes me too with the assignments.
I have:
2 English
Geo
Hist
ILP
German
Art
Science.
all this term and i dont have art or science yet.
tl;dr
I would've had more patience for it if you'd use better grammar and a little spacing. Kind of hurts to look at.
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