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Post by Rylee Wenzel on Jun 17, 2024 2:55:00 GMT
This weeks video was really intriguing to me. I like that it tied into last weeks video about Sisyphus. I found the idea of giving your all to something even when you know the outcome to be interesting; and that by doing this, we become masters of our own fate. I wonder what everyone else thinks about this notion that by revolting and living in the now, we become actually free.
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Post by gillianlaird on Jun 18, 2024 19:53:26 GMT
I find that there is a lot of merit in the idea you mention at the end about becoming free once we decide to live in the here and now. When observing my own life and the lives of others, I see that we all have one thing in common. We all tend to spend every waking minute waiting for the next. We live with our eyes trained on the future instead of the now. Of course, once we get to that future and it is not how we imagined, we then look back and romanticize the past. To truly revolt would be to let go of our worries/desire for the future and instead focus on each and every moment as they come. However, I think that is much easier said then done. What I find interesting is the role social media plays in all of this. No longer are we looking to the future for our lives to magically get better (instead of taking control and searching for way to make them better now), but we are also watching others live their lives through a screen. It's easy to fall into the trap of believing their lives to be better than ours, simply because they are showing us a glamorized version. All of this is to say that society seems to be making it harder for humanity to "revolt" and live in the here and now.
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Post by gnicholson3 on Jun 19, 2024 17:30:25 GMT
I also wonder this. There is a dichotomy of being free and being contained (shackled? burdened?) if we think of Aristotle's golden mean, there's the understanding that too much or too little of something is bad. In chasing the concept of freedom does one ever find satisfaction or is there a listlessness that leaves one perpetually wanting? If we lean too far, we lose the things that make life meaningful, nothing matters. There's a loss of the things that ground us to this world in a way. I'm not sure if that makes sense. If we focus too much on the things that contain us then we lose hope, wanting? This is so complex.
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Post by Rylee Wenzel on Jun 20, 2024 2:06:41 GMT
Hi Gillian! I absolutely agree with your argument that in order to truly revolt we must let go of our worry for the future and focus on the present. I agree that this is something we all have in common. It is something I do daily. I think constantly thinking of/planning for the future may give us a false sense of control. If we think about something enough and prepare ourselves enough for it, we feel as though we have control. The notion that whatever happens happens and that life will keep moving regardless, is something that I think we should think of when trying to ground ourselves in the present.
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