Welcome to Teenage Rebellion #2
Hello friends, so I've been looking at all our blog postings, from this crowd of mostly mid-twenty somethings, all of us trying to dig out and intellectualize what's "important" in life. And what comes up? Evolution, Technology vs Nature, Where are we? What are we? Where did we come from? and Where are we going? (as a species). Why might we be so interested in these questions at this particular time in our lives? Well, for the most part, this is also a time in our lives when we think "Where am I going?" "What am I going to do with my life?" and "HOw did I get to be this person anyway?".
And thrown in everywhere are these anti-society comments about how "science" is taking over all good and creativity and how "technology" is bulldozing nature out of existence. Well, I suppose it's as good a cause to rebel against as any, but does anyone else see parallels to the classic teenage rebellion most of us went through a few short years back. Of course, back then everyone discovers that their lives have largely been shaped and controlled by their parents and in order to grow into an "individual" they have to behave in drastic and illogical ways. Now, we realize that, in fact, it was "society" that was controlling and shaping our beliefs on a bigger scale and now we turn against something or anything in society so we don't feel like we're just all fresh out of society's conforming cookie cutter punching out brainwashed consumers. And hey, maybe it's just another selfish need for individuality.
And thrown in everywhere are these anti-society comments about how "science" is taking over all good and creativity and how "technology" is bulldozing nature out of existence. Well, I suppose it's as good a cause to rebel against as any, but does anyone else see parallels to the classic teenage rebellion most of us went through a few short years back. Of course, back then everyone discovers that their lives have largely been shaped and controlled by their parents and in order to grow into an "individual" they have to behave in drastic and illogical ways. Now, we realize that, in fact, it was "society" that was controlling and shaping our beliefs on a bigger scale and now we turn against something or anything in society so we don't feel like we're just all fresh out of society's conforming cookie cutter punching out brainwashed consumers. And hey, maybe it's just another selfish need for individuality.
posted by Lauren at 8:19 AM
3 Comments:
Maybe, but I don't think so.
I actually agree with you, but I think it's a funny idea anyway. :)
I think that you're on to something. Like I said on some other post, some other time, paraphrasing this guy Fichte: We're getting it right about 90% of the time, we're living, we're breathing, that chair is really there and the sky is really blue. It's just that 10% that we have yet to figure out. The problem is, we keep drowning ourselves in questions about what we already know, and has already been proven to us to be real. If we stopped introspecting, disecting, and disecting further and just addressed the REAL questions, the ROOT questions, we might get somewhere.
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