Blogging Around: Connections in Confusion

My first comment was on Sophia Almeroth's blog. I really thought that she had some great, thought provoking questions within her post. I really liked how it made me think about postmodernism. I love The Devil Wears Prada, but now I look at it in a different light.

Sophia, I completely agree. The fact that the scene was taken out of the context of the movie made it a lot more powerful and impressive. I think it's amazing how everything is sort of interconnected, and really isn't our decision. Many people think that they have free will, but what this scene is saying is that we don't really get to choose. We don't have free will. We are influenced about everything. Your last question really intrigues me too: Who/What influences us the most?

The next commented I posted was on Nigel Howard's blog. He did a connection post on Tenacity and College. When I first started to read it, I was confused at the connection, and if there really was one. But as I kept going, he writes of finding his own strength through the battle towards victory. I found myself thinking about my college application experience, and how our's were very similar.

Nigel, first of all, you have a way with words that makes me want to keep reading. You write almost melodically, and I really love that, but that's beside the point. This post has a very crazy and deep connection to myself. I myself am not the smartest girl out there. I mess up all the time, and let's be real, my attention span varies on the day. But, my mother has trained me to be better than what I do normally. College is such a beautiful freedom, it's a learning period and it can really change where you want to go in life. Thinking back to when I was a kid, I really thought that it would never come, but it has and it still seems as dream-like as it was when I was younger. It's crazy to think that we, next year, will be off and on our own. I've learned to push myself more than I already do, and how to put it forth to something that I love to do. I'm going to college to study comedy... For me, that is a dream come true. Tenacity and grit is something that I've learned, and thankfully, really hard to unlearn.

Change of Mind: Postmodernism

In the beginning of this unit, I could really only understand one thing: Postmodernism.

But using the term 'understand' is giving myself a ton of leeway. Postmodernists in my mind seemed like they were just a bunch of paranoid assholes who had nothing better to do but bring the Modernists down. It felt as if there were to be argument, their only defense would be The System.

I just didn't like the fact that they were the opposite of the Modernists, and that they had radically different ideas, but as we watched examples of what they actually meant, I think I have found a completely different view.

In the film Syriana, Tim Blake Nelson is confronted about corruption in the oil company. He then goes on to explain that corruption is everywhere and everything. The reason that we have rules against corruption is so we can actually BE CORRUPT. 

We change things and bend them and makes things so we can break them. We are influenced by everything, and we can't escape it, and that's exactly what Postmodernists are saying! They just want others to accept it.

Even though I feel as if they can come of apathetic, or kind of 'all knowing', I still really like what they have to say about certain topics. I think that they really have great points.