Tuesday, July 24, 2012
An Outcast's Trek of the Brave New World
“The control of feelings…so they do not control you,” said
Sarek, the Vulcan Ambassador, to Spock to remind him to keep his human emotions
in control after a fight with other boys. Sarek is the father of Spock who
married a human woman because he loved her, but used the excuse that it was
deemed logical. Spock had to choose whether he wanted to become completely
Vulcan, where he is unable to convey any emotion, or stay true to human
feelings like his human mother. Spock was treated as an outcast on Vulcan
because he was partially human so he found a home on planet Earth Federation
where he was accepted as an intellectual. Watching Star Trek, the 2009 film,
and hearing this quote reminded me of the conflict that Huxley created in Brave
New World. Similarly, the World State World
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I firmly believe without outsiders, society would not function properly to the fullest extend. It is also my belief that they do add some positive and negative change within . It is common for any society or in any social plot to have outsiders. Social norms and outside beliefs are the common Ying-Yang scenario where one could not be noticed without the other. Without evil, how can we identify good? Without crime, how could we identify justice? Without villains, how could we identify the heroes? The contradiction of two things help to point out what the difference is. Plus, is society not just one big contradiction itself among people? Some belief and act the same way while other refuse to.
ReplyDeleteIf we substitute the word "outsiders" for "artists," would that change the conversation? And aren't our artists outsiders? Scientific geniuses, writers, painters -- all are members of a given society, and yet somehow apart. Of course a society needs its members on the fringe.
ReplyDeleteSo why do so many of us spend our lives trying to exist safely inside the lines? Watching what they tell us to watch? Believing what is convenient and easy to digest? Faking our way through school, without any authentic engagement with ideas, merely trying to make a grade, so we can move on to the next level to fake our way through that, so we can...do what, exactly?
I think most people try to "fit in" with today's moral standards because they are too concerned about being judged, especially in a shallow world of size double zero supermodels and overly beefed up body builders. I believe many people have a hard time with criticism and believe if they follow the status quo then they won't be criticized. In today's society, it takes a lot of courage to stand apart from the crowd; courage that most people don't have or don't want to express. It's a lot easier for people to act as a carbon copy rather than an individual.
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