For this months blog, I will be taking the random scribbled text on the back of a piece of paper titled "Essential Questions: Quarter 4 'Monsters and Ourselves'", which I wrote down as the rest of the class verbally discussed the questions on said paper. Please note that the following ideas and words are in fact incomplete and used merely as a sort of "thinking out loud" type of expression, only on paper, with a bic ball point pen. And I quote...
"Difference between "evil" and trying to survive. If people act like animals, we call them savage, heartless, evil, but do we call animals evil? When a wolf or lion kill a deer or antalope, it is not evil, but survival. When they defend each other, or territory, it is nature. The man has no nature anymore, we are "civilized"(Meaning taken away from natural settings, not the more widly used definition that implies "good" behavior.) too much, so the true "nature" of man is unknown. So what if what we "assume" to be "evil" is mans true nature? Is it truly "evil" then? Or is evil just an invention of a corrupted nature in order to destroy devolution, a development, a survival of the fittest. For if we believe in "evil" we will try to be "good", and shun our old nature of life, thus, thrusting us ever forward in a most evelutional concept."
The following are random things also on the paper, not full sentences:
"I expect from people to not do what I expect them to do"
"expect=assume" "know, or know not, never assume"
"I think, therefor I think I am"
"I assume, therefor I am man"
"I think, therefor I assume I am"
"I expect nothing of people, assumption is the downfall of man"
"The only assumption I make is that whatever I assume is probably wrong"
Thus concludes the interesting, and perhaps nonsensical, scribbles on this paper.(besides drawings of course, but those would be rather hard to put up on this blog.)
I'm not sure how this will do as a blog, but it is something that I would have said in class if I was the type of person who did such things. I hope you can make some sense out of my random thoughts bluntly transfered on to paper.
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ReplyDeleteCarynne said...
ReplyDeleteI love the random thoughts here Dennis. I am especially fascinated with your comment: "The man has no nature anymore, we are "civilized"'
Good Work- just don't forget to make a connection to the literature.