So, I read all that stuff on the academic essay tips, and the thing that I guess stuck out was this Freewrite thing. It's something that I use alot before writing an essay, just for myself. Although, generally, my freewrites do not entail complete sentences.
Today, I want to use this blog to sort of go through my cluttered mind and figure things out. Normally, I have an audience in mind and try to seem "scholarly," but... we'll see where this goes.
So: Saturday, I got a flu shot. And as I was standing in this LONG line holding out my ID card and Kaiser card (labeled by a number) I felt a weird aspect of a Brave New Worldish society. Or, at least a mechanical one. We all stand in line, inch by inch crawling forward, to be injected with something to keep us from getting sick. I mean, it's reasonable duh, but it felt trippy. I felt like a decanter going by a conveyor belt being given a shot of sleeping sickness.
So, will I write a comparison to our society? Maybe.
And--- well I kind of exhausted my comparisons to 1984 both in my previous blog and in my socratic circle. So should I keep going with that? Mayhaps.
Perhaps I will write in comparison to modern society. But not because of the flu shot thing. I've been thinking a lot about narratives too--- mainly the difference between micro and meta. Lyotard envisioned an era that consisted of the grand acceptance and mixing of many local or micro, narratives. And, as I said before, that seems so inhuman! (perhaps mechanical? Computerish?) Everyone, no matter what your walk of life, should have some kind of center in their lives. This postmodernism focus is exciting for me, because it seems like it would HAVE to be so fictional. It could never convince me at least. Everyone always likes to focus on something bigger than themselves. Whether religion or philosophy. So, how can a society where the only concern is the current state of life we live in possibly emerge with the powerful religions we have today? CAN they be wiped out completely?
Well, no not really. But, and I'm gonna go a little Christian Apocolyptic here for my own mind's sake, it is entirely possible to warp it. I read the Left Behind series, which is a fictional accout of the book of Revelations, the end times--- if they happened today. And you think, our society is WAY to far from anything like that to happen! And yet, the way the book progressed (while OBVIOUSLY fiction) made sense. There was a mass disappearing. People just were GONE, clothes left behind. Airplanes crashed, cars without drivers. Mass destruction and death. And that brought the world together. Understandable. But then things really started to take off, with one very persuasive person with an idea people could latch onto (ie: Big Brother, Ford, in that case the AntiChrist). Within a year or two, there was a one world currency, and a one world religion (what?! I know. One that was tolerant of all, and didn't call anyone wrong. Sounds like something I've been arguing against. It's something the Bible predicts will happen before the end). Anyways, people started to really come together with this Global Community idea (isn't that evident everywhere! Like the Big Brother society or the Brave New World!) and anyone against it was a threat. I'm not an expert on other religions, but the more I write this blog, the more Christianity seems to be pointing towards a postmodern time. Wouldn't it be interesting if eveyone, religious and philosophical, ended up predicting the same situations? So, moving back on point, it seems there are real ways to picture our society blending together like that. And, in this intellectual age, most people would go for it I'm afraid.
Losing train of thought.....
I think I have a lot to go on here. The fact that the book series I referenced to calls it a Global Community is starting to get to me. That's kind of what these societies we've been reading about are. How... disconcerting.
Anyways, goodnight all and good luck on your EVIL EVIL EVIL Olson projects that are due rather soon. *hides*
Tonight blog brought to you by: Is it a good Idea to Microwave this?
Videos in the side of blog. New episode this monday! Kick off the new season microwaving a car airbag. What will happen?!?!?!?!
Evil Diva Issue 6 Page 3
8 years ago
Hey, sounds like you have a lot of cool ideas. Maybe you can take two that are somewhat closely related and write on them. Yes, I have felt like that while standing in a line waiting for something. I wasn't relating it to Brave New World but that its kinda strange. I like how you have some ideas that are just from Brave New World but from Our World as well. Pretty cool. Oh, Dominguez did say he wanted to have some text in our blogs and I don't see any in yours. Just a heads up there. Just probably write on what kind of things were interesting in the book that you could use for your essay. I do really like some of the things you have observed in our world that are similar to brave New World. Also using other literature, Left Behind, is also really cool. Yeah, just keep thinking about your topic and try to see if there is a way you can tie two or even three ideas that you have. Sounds like you are going to have an awesome essay. Make sure to use text though. ; )
ReplyDeleteWell hi! You've definitely got good stuff here, you could surely write a great essay whatever you choose. It looks like you had more ideas in the second part, with the connecting to our world part, which I found quite interesting. And of you do write with that-I dunno if it would be your thesis, or just part of the essay or whatever- you already have those books as outside sources. Hooray! And Postmodernism as well, and anything else really. Not that you have a problem with that, you had plenty of sources for the 1984 essay. Which was great, by the way. Anyways, looks good. Bye byes!
ReplyDeleteFirst off: WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!
ReplyDeletei absolutely loved reading this. :D every time i read your ideas my mind races at the speed of lightning! Well i definitely feel you have very strong ideas to continue an essay prompt off of. I personally enjoyed reading the very beginning about your trip to the doctor and the comparison you made that to brave new world it was very creative and i feel you can do a lot with that topic. The idea of centering your life around something is a good argument but also consider this; the worship among brave new world's society is focused on a higher individual so try not to contradict the fact that the center of they're lives is production and ford so a center for them does exist in a weird contorted way. Well great job Andrea i look forward to knowing what topic you chose and how the essay turned out. :)