Wednesday, July 25, 2012

7/23-7/29 Post 2: Burkitt Text


Out of all the Burkitt chapter's, I believe this one was my favorite chapter out of them all thus far. A lot of the ideas proposed and challenges faced from these ideas are things I have thought about completely agree with. I even found joy in disagreeing with a couple things as well. Since I can only point out a few concepts I will talk about the ones I found most interesting and relevant to life. The first is how society is moving away from "I" and moving toward "we". It is hard to imagine and see this concept in reality when everyone is wound up in themselves. But as I thought about it more, it makes more sense because "I" is created through the "we". Self identity is changing from what a person know to who a person knows. The other concept that I would like to highlight which relates to this last one is the concept of writing and rewriting one's self. Personally, I don't think self identity can be rewritten or even erased. A person's future is based off his or her past when trying to change oneself. That life had an impact was a reason as to why the new life will be different. The "old self" will always be a part of a person. The past will always haunt.

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