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I feel... inspired.
I am very glad that I went to philosophy today. Not only because of damn fucking cute boy in that class (who by the way has the most amazing eyes i have ever seen in my life. bright fucking blue with his longish black/blondeish hair... swoon) but because I feel enlightened when I leave that class.
Today we discussed individuality in J.S. Mill's On Liberty. Pretty much Mill's claim is that individuality and "experiments on living" are necessary for the advancment of any culture. It is a really interesting read actually and I have enjoyed it a lot being that the definitions "individuality" are so muddled by places like urban outfitters.
In the discussion in class a few very good points were brought up that made me really think:
People who spend their whole lives trying to be different and trying to go against the norm are more bound by customs and society than those who are just going with the flow but delievering personal explanation for their actions.
Mill makes a very good point on what defines individuality and he is a very strong advocate of individuality. Have your own reasonings for what you are doing. Who cares if you turn right just like everyone else, just have your own reasons for doing it. Dont do it because everyone else is.
You can spend your whole life questioning who you are or how you are an "individual" but you will kill yourself in the end because you will constantly be trying to change things about yourself just for the sake of being different, in which case you are no better than those who are doing things just because everyone else is.
Also, Mill points out that everyone is close minded. When call someone "close minded" we are being close minded because we dont know the supreme truth and are therefor shutting out their opinion much like they are doing to ours.
I dunno its just interesting to me.
Okay, im done.
PS- I have been listening to Nine Inch Nails a lot recently and I was listening to Hurt and started crying and it felt amazing. I started thinking about all these fucked up situations and just i dunno vented a lot in my journal. I wrote til the writers cramp was so bad i couldnt feel my hand. it was such an amazing feeling. I dont care what people say that song/band/cd is fucking amazing.
I am very glad that I went to philosophy today. Not only because of damn fucking cute boy in that class (who by the way has the most amazing eyes i have ever seen in my life. bright fucking blue with his longish black/blondeish hair... swoon) but because I feel enlightened when I leave that class.
Today we discussed individuality in J.S. Mill's On Liberty. Pretty much Mill's claim is that individuality and "experiments on living" are necessary for the advancment of any culture. It is a really interesting read actually and I have enjoyed it a lot being that the definitions "individuality" are so muddled by places like urban outfitters.
In the discussion in class a few very good points were brought up that made me really think:
People who spend their whole lives trying to be different and trying to go against the norm are more bound by customs and society than those who are just going with the flow but delievering personal explanation for their actions.
Mill makes a very good point on what defines individuality and he is a very strong advocate of individuality. Have your own reasonings for what you are doing. Who cares if you turn right just like everyone else, just have your own reasons for doing it. Dont do it because everyone else is.
You can spend your whole life questioning who you are or how you are an "individual" but you will kill yourself in the end because you will constantly be trying to change things about yourself just for the sake of being different, in which case you are no better than those who are doing things just because everyone else is.
Also, Mill points out that everyone is close minded. When call someone "close minded" we are being close minded because we dont know the supreme truth and are therefor shutting out their opinion much like they are doing to ours.
I dunno its just interesting to me.
Okay, im done.
PS- I have been listening to Nine Inch Nails a lot recently and I was listening to Hurt and started crying and it felt amazing. I started thinking about all these fucked up situations and just i dunno vented a lot in my journal. I wrote til the writers cramp was so bad i couldnt feel my hand. it was such an amazing feeling. I dont care what people say that song/band/cd is fucking amazing.