Post New world Modernism?

Myths/Narratives have probably been around as long as human beings themselves. But, what are these myths and what is their purpose? In Postmodernism for Beginners Jim Powell states that," The myth requires no authorization or legitimization other than itself;The myth defines what has the right to be said and done in the culture(POWELL25)." In the olden days people would explain the unexplainable with an Narrative. Ancient cultures such as: The Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, Early Chinese Dynasty's, Greeks, and Hinduism Framers all looked to Narratives to explain things when knowledge was limited. These stories would explain a cornucopia of Ideas. Natural Phenomena, Creation, Purpose, why things are the way they are, and Purpose/ meaning of life. All these things were deemed "law" by the group of people following them. Nobody had any other ideas as to why everything is the way it is and this is why myths were able to exist and be created in small communities. All these myths remained until some other (Grand Narrative) or scientific proof came and shattered them. Some myths can also be thought of as lies believed by everyone including the liar. But for them this lie is the only answer. Until a grand Narrative or scientific proof is made to Myth bust a myth that myth shall stand. Now in my eyes a grand Narrative is a Narrative that forces other narratives to Cease to exist due to its believability and hold over a community. Some say seeing is believing, but Grand Narratives have the immaculate ability to invest such strong faith in its believers that even a scientifically proof that proves it to be compel false with evidence is not enough to whimsical its followers. Some see science itself as a grand narrative."according to Lyotard, since science cannot depend upon science to legitimize itself, it must turn to narrative!". Since these Narratives are (Grand) any Narrative that contradicts it is deemed false and oppression between people who follow the Grand Narrative and those who don't becomes relevant. Minority Discourse's become marginalized by the very fact they are a minority. Buy because more people follow this one story your story is impossible. I really wish that These Grand Narratives can disappear and the world can be filled with respectable tiny narratives. Then America could be a place with less hate and more respect. Come on people how about we let people believe what they want to believe. Don't worry about proving them wrong and just have faith in what you believe in.




*** WARNING WHEN I WROTE THIS I WAS NOT SURE WHAT A GRAND NARRATIVE IS. FEEL FREE TO INFORM ME***

New world Brave; Is topsey turvey.

Brave New World Baby's

Real World baby's

A Brave new world........................................ makes me say," Did I really just read what I think I read?" Anyways after reading the the first couple of chapters I went back and paid the Foreward a visit. Many interesting details about the book and the depicted society were brought up in the foreward chapter. One mind boggling truth is the statement," Brave New world is a book about the future, and a book about the future can interest us only if its prophecies look as though they might conceivably come true(Huxlyx)." I was wondering why this book seemed so interesting to me and this line from Huxly piratically told me why. At first the ideas, setting, and way the society works is practical overwhelming and laughable in an unbelievable manner. But when I really ponder and make correlations between this surreal society and ours I see that this surreal society could be quite real. In our modern times we see profit as a good thing. But as society based only on profit and gain just doesn't sound moral. But when I really think about it a lot of things just come strait down to money. People try to morph their lifestyle into one where they have plenty to spend on necessity and a little sum thing something for themselves. The idea of living paycheck to paycheck strikes fear and stress into people. So, I could defiantly see a society of people working only for a profit and forgetting their real pursuit of happiness. Also the lack of individuality in the story hits home with me. If the government or people of an higher Class/caste/particle(alpha) try to make everyone identical in their emotional feelings we lose a very important aspect in our lives. We strive to get an education and a job to be "successful". But really who is becoming successful in the end. What is success. And why does America want us to be successful. Maybe it is for the benefit of America. They want us to be successful because it betters our country. Our country makes more of a profit then other country because its citizens are profitable. The society in Brave new world is a corrupt and wacky one but it is not that far off in a level of corruptness and wackiness of our own. Everything depicted in Huxlys book is reachable if America or the Planet earth in general keep going down the path we are going. Probably the only thing slowing us down are anti- abortionist, Anti- Steam cell research people, treehuggers, animal rights activist, And people who want a sense of variety in their life. Brave new world is practically a not so funny but real satire of society in these postmodern times. Albert Huxly wrote it to convey the his ideas of the future. A future he probably did not like. Sorry bout the middle of my blog I know it doesn't make any sense.

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Its the truth, SIKE!!!!

AP Lit Blog post 1 History

The past week in AP lit we have been reading a couple of articles that question history and want to change it. As we discussed the topics suggested by these articles my mind started to form it's own conclusions. First off, I find it impossible to write an objective version of anythings history. Weather it be the history of a culture, country, organism, or even living people their is always going to be some degree of bias. There is no way to overcome our non objective scriptures other then believing that it is objective. Textbooks can only sway an individuals mind if they allow it to. It is all in the hands of the person acquiring the knowledge to form his own opinion on the truth.
One of the articles also pointed out changing the history curriculum to favor certain ideas and remove others. The very fact that they want to make history " FAVOR" something is causing a " BIAS" To occur. And then on top of this they want to replace our minority history with this Bias stretched history. These minority groups history is also the most objective history we have. Why would anyone want to replace factual objective history with Favor sum Bias history? Maybe, they just want to vaporize an important part of a minority's history from our minds. Maybe they just want to enter thoughts into our heads to Favor the institution they are trying to have represent. What ever the reason it sounds a little bit like the book 1984. Just think if these people succeed in their history altering task a new generation will see the world in a different light. For example, By replacing the entire history of the greatest civil rights lawyer ever, Thurgood Marshall, with a christian centered social gospel movement the world will be an extremely different place. A generation from now young people will not even know that there was once a time where schools were even segregated. To them Brown vs. board of education never happened. Instead their mind is filled with how great the social Gospel movement was for underprivileged people. Tying it back into 1984, it is as if Thurgood Marshell is VAPORIZED and then replaced with people worshiping the christian religion as if it is big brother. People will not know how they got to doing what they are doing. all they know is that they go to school with people of all different ethnicity's because Christianity allows them to. As 1984 fantasizes history can control everyone's perception of what is the truth. What they believe is the truth influences their actions. An objective Truth would be a great thing,but sadly it is impossible. It is our job as citizens of the United states of America to keep our "official history"as objective as possible.

Just remember..... YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!!!