Friday, September 9, 2016
Long Distance
After having started being apart for so long it doesn't necessarily feel as bad as I was expecting it to be, but of course we haven't been apart that long compared to other couples. Rather, we have only been together for barely anytime compared to some other people. It kind of feels lonely though, for example, when you've had a harder than usual day or you just feel alone. The person that you're so used to being with a driving distance is now a train ride away that still takes 11 hours to get there. I shouldn't complain though. I prefer this over not being together at all. We have done that before, and it is horrible. I would rather us be torn apart by distance if that is our fate, but i will never give up until there is no more working it out. I think if you're in a relationship though you and your significant other should be communicating because if you can communicate then no distance can tear you apart. Well at least that's how it works in my head anyways. I can't believe we have been together for two years already. I really hope this works out in the end. I want her to be my one and only for the rest of my life. If that could be granted to me I would be the happiest person on this earth. Anyways, I really hope I'm able to get a job with my school that pays good money. I really want to be able to visit her over the holidays although it makes me sad that I would be using all my money to visit her, but I wouldn't be able to get her any amazing gifts.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Brave New World: Chapter 18~ When in danger use consumerism
"'Have a few magnesium-salted almonds!' said the man who, if the Savage were to advance, would be the first to be attacked. He held out a packet. 'They're really very good you know,' he added, with a rather nervous smile of propitiation. 'And the magnesium salts will help to keep you young'" (Huxely 316).
The citizens, no matter what happens the first thing that always comes to mind is consumerism. Even when in danger these people only know consumerism. This makes their lives seem less meaningful to the people that know more than just consumerism, because those people know there is more to life than just objects. Contrary, to this belief to have consumerism be the first thing that comes to mind can prove useful if you are in dire need of anything. For example, if a person needed a way to calm down as fast as possible them soma would be there for them, so there is a good use for the ways of consumer culture.
The citizens, no matter what happens the first thing that always comes to mind is consumerism. Even when in danger these people only know consumerism. This makes their lives seem less meaningful to the people that know more than just consumerism, because those people know there is more to life than just objects. Contrary, to this belief to have consumerism be the first thing that comes to mind can prove useful if you are in dire need of anything. For example, if a person needed a way to calm down as fast as possible them soma would be there for them, so there is a good use for the ways of consumer culture.
Brave New World: chapter 17~ Punishment by the pleasant vices
"'Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death? The gods are just. Haven't they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?'" (Huxely 290).
In the Brave New World, the consumer culture is being compared to a man being wounded and bleeding to death. This is because of how the citizens degrade themselves and punish themselves by always just being a consumer in their new society. The culture degrades them and they don't even know because if they were to be compared to someone in reality, they would have the mental maturity of a child. However, them being so ignorant may not be so degrading because by keeping most of society at this mental state they are able to keep a peace that is unattainable without regulating how the people indulge themselves. Furthermore, in this strategic way of accomplishing a control over the people they do not have to rely on force, and use a culture that solely relies on consumerism.
In the Brave New World, the consumer culture is being compared to a man being wounded and bleeding to death. This is because of how the citizens degrade themselves and punish themselves by always just being a consumer in their new society. The culture degrades them and they don't even know because if they were to be compared to someone in reality, they would have the mental maturity of a child. However, them being so ignorant may not be so degrading because by keeping most of society at this mental state they are able to keep a peace that is unattainable without regulating how the people indulge themselves. Furthermore, in this strategic way of accomplishing a control over the people they do not have to rely on force, and use a culture that solely relies on consumerism.
Brave New World: chapter 15/16 ~ Science and Art tear the world apart
"'And it's what you will never write,' said the Controller. 'Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello'" (Huxely 264).
Consumer culture in the Brave New World sacrifices the arts to give the people happiness, but this is a false sense of happiness because the root of their happiness is ignorance. The citizens of the world state are only shown few pleasures in life so to say that they are truly happy is that they are really just ignorant and this is what they have been taught to enjoy. However, the people are not able to feel the happiness and the plethora of emotions that come from art, but to say that they do not feel a real sense of happiness, because they only know few pleasures, is ignorant on its own. There are many people in the real world who only know few pleasures and are very happy. Although, the sacrifice of art is detrimental to this society, it is to say even if it were to be created here the meaning in the life of art has been degraded to nothing, and not one would ever understand it.
Consumer culture in the Brave New World sacrifices the arts to give the people happiness, but this is a false sense of happiness because the root of their happiness is ignorance. The citizens of the world state are only shown few pleasures in life so to say that they are truly happy is that they are really just ignorant and this is what they have been taught to enjoy. However, the people are not able to feel the happiness and the plethora of emotions that come from art, but to say that they do not feel a real sense of happiness, because they only know few pleasures, is ignorant on its own. There are many people in the real world who only know few pleasures and are very happy. Although, the sacrifice of art is detrimental to this society, it is to say even if it were to be created here the meaning in the life of art has been degraded to nothing, and not one would ever understand it.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Brave New World: chapter 14~ Death is just a part of life
"'Disgraceful? But what do you mean? They're being death-conditioned. And I tell you,' she warned him truculently, 'if I have anymore of your interference with their conditioning, I'll send for the porters and have you thrown out'" (Huxely 208).
Consumer culture is to be able to be not affected by death, to do this children are conditioned. To be un-affected by death has some very good attributes as well as its defects. The positives of society being un-affected by death means a few things. Firstly, they can keep working and their lives will not stop because of someones death. Furthermore, the citizens of the World State do not have to be in any pain when their friends are dead; while they may miss their company there will be no heartbreak, this is because the people are conditioned by the their culture to not be affected, or hurt. However, the sentimentality that lies in life and the loss of the ones closest to people is a beautiful yet tragic feeling. The meaning of life is somewhat downsized when you make it so that death is nothing, and is just a part of life. All the while, death is just another cycle in life, but there is meaning in it because death is the birth of change. While some people are not affected by another's death the people closest to the one who had died, now have a change in their life that may not be avoided.
Consumer culture is to be able to be not affected by death, to do this children are conditioned. To be un-affected by death has some very good attributes as well as its defects. The positives of society being un-affected by death means a few things. Firstly, they can keep working and their lives will not stop because of someones death. Furthermore, the citizens of the World State do not have to be in any pain when their friends are dead; while they may miss their company there will be no heartbreak, this is because the people are conditioned by the their culture to not be affected, or hurt. However, the sentimentality that lies in life and the loss of the ones closest to people is a beautiful yet tragic feeling. The meaning of life is somewhat downsized when you make it so that death is nothing, and is just a part of life. All the while, death is just another cycle in life, but there is meaning in it because death is the birth of change. While some people are not affected by another's death the people closest to the one who had died, now have a change in their life that may not be avoided.
Brave New World: chapter 13~ when consent doesn't work...
"'Why don't you just go and take him wether he wants it or no" (Huxely 192).
In this novel, Brave New World, when you want to have somebody usually this is very casual and easy to obtain. When a person doesn't want to have someone it is socially acceptable to have that person by force and this is due to their culture they live in. This can be a benefit because even if this happens no one has to feel bad, or awkward, about the incident. On the contrary, making rape so easily obtainable and not against any laws, because erotic play is a social norm, can be the cause of something that may scar someone for their life and no one would ever help them. Furthermore, their body would be defiled, and they would have no comfort no matter where they looked. In relation, this leads to the other social norm for their consumer culture of drugs, soma, which the victim of rape would most likely take regularly, so they would not have to think about it ever. To tie it all together, the consumer culture allows rape to be accepted; this may be good because on one hand no one would feel bad, if the victim is on soma. However, the victim is being defiled and this consumer culture allows the meaning of life to lower by making it accebtable for people to rape others and others to be raped.
In this novel, Brave New World, when you want to have somebody usually this is very casual and easy to obtain. When a person doesn't want to have someone it is socially acceptable to have that person by force and this is due to their culture they live in. This can be a benefit because even if this happens no one has to feel bad, or awkward, about the incident. On the contrary, making rape so easily obtainable and not against any laws, because erotic play is a social norm, can be the cause of something that may scar someone for their life and no one would ever help them. Furthermore, their body would be defiled, and they would have no comfort no matter where they looked. In relation, this leads to the other social norm for their consumer culture of drugs, soma, which the victim of rape would most likely take regularly, so they would not have to think about it ever. To tie it all together, the consumer culture allows rape to be accepted; this may be good because on one hand no one would feel bad, if the victim is on soma. However, the victim is being defiled and this consumer culture allows the meaning of life to lower by making it accebtable for people to rape others and others to be raped.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Brave New World: Chapter 12~ Drugs fix everything
"He was ashamed of his jealousy and alternately made efforts of will and took soma to keep himself from feeling it" (Huxely 185).
Through consumer culture the citizens of the World State take drugs for anything that is wrong and this is great because you have people who are not always happy and when they are on soma suddenly everything is okay again. This drug has no side effects so the government doesnt have to deal with any addicts that just waste space; because all the drug addicts that might have wasted space take soma, so they are still able to work and be contempt with themselves. However, this society full of drug addicts is always just ignoring their problems by taking the beloved soma, but these people, just like the people in the real world that take drugs, degrade themselves to drugs all they ever know what to do is drugs. Having a consumer culture where it is okay to take drugs just to be happy is degrading the meaning of life. Life means so much more when you get through hardships with willpower and without having to rely on a drug that makes everything seem better.
Through consumer culture the citizens of the World State take drugs for anything that is wrong and this is great because you have people who are not always happy and when they are on soma suddenly everything is okay again. This drug has no side effects so the government doesnt have to deal with any addicts that just waste space; because all the drug addicts that might have wasted space take soma, so they are still able to work and be contempt with themselves. However, this society full of drug addicts is always just ignoring their problems by taking the beloved soma, but these people, just like the people in the real world that take drugs, degrade themselves to drugs all they ever know what to do is drugs. Having a consumer culture where it is okay to take drugs just to be happy is degrading the meaning of life. Life means so much more when you get through hardships with willpower and without having to rely on a drug that makes everything seem better.
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