Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Zero-Draft"
For my essay i have chosen to write about a topic in which concerns how society and material possesions have encumbered us, as well as having taken us away from nature and away from oursleves. And while for the most part I agree with these sentiments of Thoureu, Emerson, and Whitman, I will pose some opposing bits that support the modern age. Im absolutely in love with nature, no matter how crappy a day I have been having, surrounding mysellf in nature never ceases to cheer me right back up. The sounds, the smell, and most of all the consistentsy is what draws me in. The fact that no matter what is going on in the world, the outdoors remains the same, it never judges my outfit, or tells me to stand up straight. Nature is the only place in which I feel comfortable to be whatever I feel like being in that particular moment, I am free. On the other hand, we have gotten to a point where I don't think we can all completely give up all of the "privilidges" that technology that society provides us with. As much as i hate to admit it, i love technology, and it really has brought about some amazing things. It has brought about medical, scientific, and social advances as well as mereentertianment that have brought a lot of good and joy to a lot of people. Also, I dont always think that thinking retrospectively or letting others influence you is a bad thing. Being able to bounce ideas off of others can sometimes ease finding your own voice. This is basically what i intend to touch expand on in my essay, please give me suggestions, ideas, crticism, ANYTHING!!!!!!
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I like your idea, I agree with you about how nature is like an oasis and somewhere you can always rely on to clam you down. I also agree with you on how you love technology...one idea would be to show Emerson, thoreau, or whitman all the technological things that you like and see if they like them as well.
ReplyDeleteYou have some great points in this idea, and I can't wait to see you expand on them. I especially like how you pointed out that there are some things in our modern world that would be hard to give up. It's true, and i feel like quite a few people like to pretend they wouldn't miss them, but seriously, get real. Personally I kind of enjoy my bed and iPod. OH EXCITEMENT!! Can't wait to read the finished product!
ReplyDeleteYeah dude, what Ivan said would be cool, like taking all their thoughts on all this shit we've created. Showing them the bad AND the good.
ReplyDeleteWe've come to NEED some of it.
How do we find that balance?
It would be cool to write a little story about how technology and these thinkers interact. Like make up the IDEAL life of balance between the awesome natureness and the convinience/connections of technology. What would THEIR ideal world look like, can we get to it?