'ello! How's things gon' fer ya?
Hea's weah I'll be wroitin me blog posts!
Okay, I have to stop talking like that. It's giving me a bit of a migraine. Anyhow, this is my blog, and this is my first HW post.
Before I do that, I just wanna say we should all read A Clockwork Orange so that you can get my references as I go along. All righty then.
David Banach's lecture indicates to me a couple things. I have a couple conflicting opinions on the whole idea, but yet I still remain sided with the human ability to feel the feelings of others, to empathize and exist on a similar emotional plane. I like to believe in the human capacity to relate. Lauren brought up in class the concept that whenever we try to empathize with a person's feelings, to feel what they feel, we are only revisiting our own feelings. I think this is true as well. I think that when most people try to step into other people's shoes, they really only bring up an example of their own life to reflect on somebody's situation.
But not always. I would say to try, genuinely try, to view things from their perspective. Perhaps you won't literally be able to feel their pain, experience their emotion, but at least you will be able to truly empathize, to know how they feel. Real knowing is a burden, so I don't ask that too many people try to do it. A lot of the time I hate knowing things, I hate being able to manipulate emotions and thoughts in people. It's wretched.
So i suppose, that despite our best efforts, we can't actually feel how others feel specifically, but I think that all humanity runs the gamut of emotion, so we all wind up feeling the same things at one point or another, it is just incredibly difficult to sync things. Which sucks, man. I was just reading on Brandon's blog, which was great-you should all read it- and he said something I thought deeply resonated with me. That we are ultimately all alone. Well, that kind of blows.
I just think that there is something to be said for humanity's ability to empathize, that while we may arguably be unable to truly feel subjectively what each other are feeling, the fact that we've been there gives us a frame of reference through which we can relate. Also, the ability for one to share their feelings makes them able to relate it to people in a context that they can better understand.
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This post basically summed up most of my thoughts. I agree with you 100 percent, I also believe humans do have the capacity to feel what others feel. Looking at this literally no one can ACTUALLY feel what someone else feels. However, I do think that people can feel the same things, im confusing myself here, I don't know if I'm making any sense but basically what I'm trying to say is that you can feel the same feelings as others.
ReplyDeletePeople have so much in common and go through so many of the same things that I think it's inevitable that people will feel the same emotions as others. Now maybe it is your own emotion being revisited by someone else who is having that same emotion, but it is still the SAME emotion. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway I think the mentality that we are all alone is not a good one, I think it does more harm then good. Saying that we are all alone is saying that we can not relate or connect or come together as one, or it at least gives people the thought that it's not possible to come together with others. This si a twisted world we live in and with out a sense of unity and a group of people coming together things don't change. All change that has benefited the majority of people in the U.S has been caused by a large amount of people coming together and fighting for the same cause all having the same feelings or at least very similar feelings over the same thing. People are able to understand the ideology and feelings of other otherwise there would be no unity and I think we can agree that people do unite as it has happened in the past and is happening currently whether it be on a mass level or it be a smaller group of people, people do unite. Anyway, I feel like I'm repeating myself so I leave it at that hopefully I wasn't to confusing and it kind of made sense. Great post by the way. I look forward to more.
Gavin, Vin, (Ill come up with a cool nickname)
ReplyDeleteLet me start off by saying I love the title of your blog. I love your writing style. I like the tone it sounds very personally and very much like you.
We all have similarities. We have all had related experiences. Although we cannot really feel what another person is feeling we can relate. People reflect on there own feelings to understand others. It makes sense to say we share the same emotions.
It all makes me wonder and think about why some people do the things they do? i find myself asking that question a lot. There is not a way for me to understand. I do not know what that person is thinking or how they are feeling. I know it is vague but I hope you know what I mean.
The only thing I can think of that’s worth pointing out is that there is a lot of information in Banach’s writing that could help your arguments.
I think it is interesting how you say, “Real knowing is a burden” that’s deep. Gets me thinking. It is worth trying to express how you feel to someone? If no one ever tried, how would we ever relate? :/ um
This was a really great blog. you inspired me to include certain things on my blog too (copycat) I cant wait to write more though.
Arden
P.s. i loved omars comment!