Argument 1: We are embedded with social values from infancy and expected to live out the archetypes we're assigned by superiors.
Major Point 1-People are born as clean slates, raw of experiences of life; the good the bad and the ugly. They depend on their parents, teachers and role models to help mold them into people they want them to be. We're taught the common linguistics, signifier and social cues set in that society.
Major Point 2-Children start off in the whom, and after birth they are gradually exposed to new aspects of life. They spend the first couple years of infancy at home, sheltered from the world until they are physically fully functioning where they are then placed in daycare to be taught some o the basics of how to function and socialize. Since each home environment it different, some kids are placed in significantly different situations that either makes or breaks their personalities.
Major Point 3-How ethnicity, culture and religion make us into the people we become.
Argument 2-Once we do become a part of the real world we look to archetypes to fulfill and images to fit.
At school, its so much easier to get along with people who have he same interests as yourself. I'd much rather play hopscotch then basketball, dolls over guns and dancing over wrestling.
It must be my gender role that encourages me and reassures me that my habits are suitable.
Argument 3- We trade failed poses for others.
Major Point 1- Isn't it the best feeling in the world to make a new friend. The excitement to relate to a new person, to have all new experiences and conversations you never had before. You can't have too many friends, a person who get you, who has your back no matter what. Friends are the families we choose, relationships that don't have to be perfect to continue forever and ever.
A problem I feel our society has is dissatisfaction with friendships.We associate friends with status, so naturally to be cool you have to have the friends who go along with the image. This is where I fear the true beauty of friendship is morphed into a competition, a business rather then an pleasure.
Take the movie mean girls, a perfect example of social influence.
The plastics recruited Kady into their clique and transformed her into an image the more easily flatters their expectations of popularity. Therefore she was expected to leave her old interests and habits behind for bigger and brighter things, in the process losing her true self.
Major Point 2-
These are the kinds of ways people can get their priorities messed up. Sure its natural to want to be cool, desire a glamorous life of reckless partying and attractive people, but where does the source of satisfaction really come from? When do we realize shot term happiness is so limited to our looks and youth? When then do we do when our skin frail, are hair looses its color and our momentum is no longer constant?
At school, its so much easier to get along with people who have he same interests as yourself. I'd much rather play hopscotch then basketball, dolls over guns and dancing over wrestling.
It must be my gender role that encourages me and reassures me that my habits are suitable.
Argument 3- We trade failed poses for others.
Major Point 1- Isn't it the best feeling in the world to make a new friend. The excitement to relate to a new person, to have all new experiences and conversations you never had before. You can't have too many friends, a person who get you, who has your back no matter what. Friends are the families we choose, relationships that don't have to be perfect to continue forever and ever.
A problem I feel our society has is dissatisfaction with friendships.We associate friends with status, so naturally to be cool you have to have the friends who go along with the image. This is where I fear the true beauty of friendship is morphed into a competition, a business rather then an pleasure.
Take the movie mean girls, a perfect example of social influence.
The plastics recruited Kady into their clique and transformed her into an image the more easily flatters their expectations of popularity. Therefore she was expected to leave her old interests and habits behind for bigger and brighter things, in the process losing her true self.
Major Point 2-
These are the kinds of ways people can get their priorities messed up. Sure its natural to want to be cool, desire a glamorous life of reckless partying and attractive people, but where does the source of satisfaction really come from? When do we realize shot term happiness is so limited to our looks and youth? When then do we do when our skin frail, are hair looses its color and our momentum is no longer constant?
Since your thesis is about our sense of emptiness and how we use cool to fill that void I think you can find some good evidence from homework 30. I wrote about a psychologist named victor frankl he talked about how we often realize out insignificance in comparison to the rest of the universe. You should probably talk about how cool is a way to combat that feeling
ReplyDeleteYour fist argument is interesting and worth putting in, but just so it doesn’t seem too epical it might be good to write about where cool is set in our upbringing, more of why of a why do we care so much and what does cool do for us, if you do decide to write about that the lecture by the psychologist matt from a while ago might be good for evidence and reference.
When you talk about archetypes it might be good to quote the lecture from fanning and the feeling of joining a tribe. Andy told me in my paper I needed to make my paper a little more personal so it couldn’t to talk a little about what joining an archetypes feels like, but not too personal. Just a bit about leaving one box and joining another so are we ever really not in an archetype or cultural group.
For your last argument I think the use of mean girls as evidence is a very good idea.
Your outline seems to be set up really well and if its any indication of what your paper will be it should be good. Hope this helped
Evan
Alicia - strong outline. Your main idea seems to match very well with mine, except you go a step farther and assert that the ultimate goal of life is "happiness". Do you think this is always true? Taoists, from what I can glean, embrace the concept of "P'u" - the "uncarved block". Christians, to some extent, believe in this tenet as well, claiming that enlightenment can only be reached when one comes to God with the mind of a "little child". Can we ever be happy in our emptiness? Do we always need to clutter our plates with meaningless rubbish in order to feel happy? Some people feel like they are one with the primordial, vacuum consciousness. Is this possible? I don't necessarily believe anything I am writing, but it would be interesting if you added a paragraph or two about this contradiction. Don't be afraid to shade your paper with nuance, intricacy and paradox. This is a complicated issue, so your response is going to get a little messy.
ReplyDeleteYour example from Mean Girls was powerful. I remember relating to Kady when I first saw the movie because our experiences were profoundly similar. However, if I were you, I would dissect and expand on this example with a little bit more analysis. Do you believe that Kady was pure and authentic before she went to public school? Andy recently debunked the belief that such a self exists, since humans, as social animals, are always following some sort of script. Could it be possible that even the homeschooled, nature loving, intellectual Kady was just a conglomerate of elements from her parents and prior experiences?
Your argument about role distancing also seems promising. I can recall my radical role shift in 8th grade when I went from Bush supporting mega Christian abstinence queen to, ... well, I won't rehash the exact sequence of events but I think we would both agree that I became more relaxed (despite still shopping compulsively at Forever 21). What are the prompts which enable us to realize that we no longer fill the shoes of our former role? What does the process of picking or being assigned a new character look like? How would you describe our freedom to even make such choices?
I'm asking you alot of questions and offering very little help. How... purple skinned of me?
Take care <33.
P.s. I wrote you a long ass comment then I got this bizarre "error 400" message and lost it. How fun.