This is a blog for me to share my ideas with the world and hopefully get some feedback...can I do that? I'm not sure yet. But anyway, i believe that this world is messed up in a lot of ways, and this is my journey in finding those ways and proposing ideas to improve them. My current passionate topics include:
1) Women's stereotypes being promoted in the workplace. Women are required to wear make-up and a minimum of accessories in certain jobs, reinforcing ideas that beauty comes from the outside.
2)The society we live in is overly concerned with efficiency and productivity. It begins to tear our society apart emotionally.
3) Public schools conform us to the "American Way" branding us with a dependence on others so the capitalist economy can continue to thrive, discouraging individual thinking.
4) Experience vs. Innocence. It is better to an informed person in the world who has learnt the atrocities and evils of the world or to be ignorant of evil, and thus, innocent. The story of Adam and Eve is relevant. They were encouraged and demanded by God to remain innocent, not knowing evil. They discovered evil and Sin, thus we are all imperfect. What does that mean for our existence? Should we now value the knowledge of horrible acts and strive for peace in spite of it, or strive for what we lost long ago: innocence.
5) The spreading of our efficient culture to elsewhere. Justifying doing things because people have always done them. Maybe there is value in Culture. Maybe doing things the most efficient way possible isn't the best way to live. What is efficiency? Do other cultures strive toward a different outcome that they call "efficiency"?
6) What it takes to get through college. How busy the work keeps me, no time to change the world like in this blog! How i have to neglect my health in order to keep up with academics, maintain friends, be socially aware to problems, and to try making a difference. Our society and college life makes that hard.
These are all subjects i will write and think deeply about as well as including topics i have already uncovered such as the true basis of the immigration problem today and sexual assault prevention on college campuses. Maybe i'll include writing i'm doing now on the changing culture of my college through its "more efficiency" practices as a prelude to my greater theme. :) I can't wait to get started.
