Project Reflection
In this project we were required to create a video that in our own words after doing a lot of research and reading the book Brave New World answered the question what is the truth of happiness. We also read many articles for research to accurately write the essay that we had to write along with it. At the end the exhibition was to simply post the video to youtube or Vimeo.
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Brave new world Reflection
Grady
Reaction
When Jaden was relating our world today in comparison is similar to the savage reservation in BNW.
I some what agree with this statement as far a old age, disease, and many other practices in this society that are different from the rest of the BNW. I thought that this statement really showed how drastically our world is different from BNW. Although in some ways such as soma we may have similar things but in a different form, but nonetheless we have forms of soma to. I recently on my own watched a ted talk about the benefits of games, and how they are like soma. Hippocrates (or it might have been the other greek historian) recorded that a greek city got through a famine by eating one day then playing games the next making them go on a (soma) holiday because they are so engrossed in the games and forgot they were hungry.
Self-evaluation
I think I can do better but I just sometimes feel like my ideas can't come out very freely in a social and structured environment. I think since the last seminar has changed to the smaller group I could express my ideas a little more freely so I was under less social pressure. Overall I think I did a little better as far as getting my ideas out better, and more frequently. I think that what I could do better next time was referencing the text which I was about to do when Stefan cut us off. I think that our group didn't do as good of a job referencing the text because we were under the false impression that you didn't need to physically say which page it was on. We referenced the text many times just we all knew which part of the book each one of us was referencing because we had read it so indepthly.
Key Take-away
For me I will take away how our group kept on relating BNW as a relation of Aldus
Huxley's to what would happen after World War II. I will also take away how having too much happiness might be detrimental. I also will take away how Aldous Huxley really broke down society down to the bones to show us in a very obvious way what makes up societies. I also think that it is interesting how Aldous Huxley brought up how this "perfect society" has no biting flying insects you think the would be smart enough to see all of the detrimental effects of current extinct species of insects and how the ecosystems become destroyed from this. I will also ponder the rest of my life about this idea of happiness, and if it is actually better in a perfect society to feel safe and content than happy.
Grady
Reaction
When Jaden was relating our world today in comparison is similar to the savage reservation in BNW.
I some what agree with this statement as far a old age, disease, and many other practices in this society that are different from the rest of the BNW. I thought that this statement really showed how drastically our world is different from BNW. Although in some ways such as soma we may have similar things but in a different form, but nonetheless we have forms of soma to. I recently on my own watched a ted talk about the benefits of games, and how they are like soma. Hippocrates (or it might have been the other greek historian) recorded that a greek city got through a famine by eating one day then playing games the next making them go on a (soma) holiday because they are so engrossed in the games and forgot they were hungry.
Self-evaluation
I think I can do better but I just sometimes feel like my ideas can't come out very freely in a social and structured environment. I think since the last seminar has changed to the smaller group I could express my ideas a little more freely so I was under less social pressure. Overall I think I did a little better as far as getting my ideas out better, and more frequently. I think that what I could do better next time was referencing the text which I was about to do when Stefan cut us off. I think that our group didn't do as good of a job referencing the text because we were under the false impression that you didn't need to physically say which page it was on. We referenced the text many times just we all knew which part of the book each one of us was referencing because we had read it so indepthly.
Key Take-away
For me I will take away how our group kept on relating BNW as a relation of Aldus
Huxley's to what would happen after World War II. I will also take away how having too much happiness might be detrimental. I also will take away how Aldous Huxley really broke down society down to the bones to show us in a very obvious way what makes up societies. I also think that it is interesting how Aldous Huxley brought up how this "perfect society" has no biting flying insects you think the would be smart enough to see all of the detrimental effects of current extinct species of insects and how the ecosystems become destroyed from this. I will also ponder the rest of my life about this idea of happiness, and if it is actually better in a perfect society to feel safe and content than happy.