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MyThoughtsOnThisClassSoFar 7 - 24 Mar 2010 - Main.GloverWright
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| | I have been trying to identify and understand a kind of anxiety I have felt while reading materials for this class thus far.
The “problem” of the course has been identified, albeit with some hesitation (aka the “pawning of the license”). The Holmes and Cohen pieces were assigned to provide us with the tools to attack the problem (aka the function of the functionalist approach). Accordingly, the next step will probably be for us to learn how to use tools like functionalism to not pawn our licenses. | | | -- GloverWright - 2 March 2010 | |
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< | Sorry it took me a while to respond-- I wasn't quite sure what to write. I understand what you are proposing, but it just sounds way too optimistic or idealistic to me. I doubt most people would adopt this world view and truly believe in it/ act according to it, unless you attach some religious/ spiritual significance to it. Maybe we will feel less hopeless because we'll have a license, but we are a small section of society. What about everyone else? How many world disasters need to happen before the majority of people get over their bullshit and adopt the kind of clarity you advocate?? I don't have a better idea, though, which is why I started this thread in the first place, so... :/ | >
> | Sorry it took me a while to respond-- I wasn't quite sure what to write. I understand what you are proposing, but it just sounds way too optimistic or idealistic to me. I doubt most people would adopt this world view and truly believe in it/ act according to it, unless you attach some religious/ spiritual significance to it. Maybe we will feel less hopeless because we'll have a license, but we are a small section of society. What about everyone else? How many world disasters need to happen before the majority of people get over their bullshit and adopt the kind of clarity you advocate?? I don't have a better idea, though, which is why I started this thread in the first place, so... :/ | | | -- KalliopeKefallinos - 21 March 2010 | |
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> | Fair enough, but I think this kind of world view is freeing in the sense that it doesn't require an appeal to anything outside of human decency, which we haven't yet lost. There's no transcendental nonsense, just the idea that lives -- and living in certain ways, and certain places -- have consequences. And once you stop turning a blind eye to injustice, or failing to act because you believe certain conditions must be met prior to action, you can make yourself useful. There's been some good discussion about this here.
-- GloverWright - 24 March 2010 |
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