It's Worth Living in the World
2003; The MIT Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1540-5699
Autores Tópico(s)Psychology of Social Influence
ResumoHomeostasis and Transistasis ... one is a force to maintain the present status and the other is a force for constant change. Anything that lives is composed of these two conflicting forces. Ritsuko Akagi from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion once brought this point up to explain how all living things, specifically humans, have a need for consistency in their lives and at the same time are in a constant need for change. Ultimately, these two conflicting forces drive our lives and always lead to change, but at a pace that is anything but wanted. Change is something that always happens, and it's always up to the individual to deal with that change if they want to survive. That is simply a fact of life, and my own is no exception. don't understand. I don't know how to live in this world if these are the choices, if everything just gets stripped away. I don't see the point...[when] the hardest thing in this world is to live in The character Buffy Summers from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer said these words in the would-be final titled The Gift. In the end, she chose death rather than trying to live in this world; she chose to sacrifice her own life so that others could live. I believe that all people have faced a time in their lives when they feel the same way Buffy does. None of us really know how to live in this world, how to be safe and to live a good life in a world that demands so much from us. What's more, we are almost programmed at birth to do things since we are expected to do it. As David Newman puts it in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, The actions of individuals are not simply functions of personality types ... they are also a reflection of shared cultural experiences. We [have had] many unwritten rules about which emotions are appropriate to feel, which are appropriate to display, and how intense the emotional display should be under specific circumstances. For instance, we're supposed to be sad at funerals, happy at weddings, and angry when insulted. (87) Newman explains how people tend to respond to specific situations in a uniformed manner. And despite how the individual may feel, he or she must alter their own perceptions and convince himself or herself that there is a correct way to answer a situation in order to fit in with the rest of the world. In essence, society as a whole forces emotional control and values on us at birth, and despite how hard the society may try to enforce these views, in the end I feel the individual will always have to justify the world for themselves. Let's start at my beginning. In 1984 I was given a great life at birth. I was handed an older brother and a loving mother and father who, despite the culturally found odds, have yet to part. I lived in an average suburban neighborhood for years. When I was finally old enough, I was enrolled in Holy Name of Mary elementary school. It might seem odd to go as far back as my elementary school, but it does actually play a role in the scheme of things. As David Newman puts it , In contemporary industrial societies the most powerful institutional agent of socialization, after the family, is education ... the personalized instruction of the family is replaced by the impersonalized instruction of the school, where the ... institution has such extended and consistent access to a person's social growth. (123-124). In school, I was a below-average student to say the least. I failed, largely due to the fact that I truly didn't care and I wasn't really interested in grades, and I was put in the special education classes before I was even in the first grade. This was fine. I made many friends. I was able to sit back and avoid learning much of anything, and I was able to feel as though I belonged. This was all good, but in the second grade, Holy Name decided to cut these programs in order to save money, so I was eventually transferred to Grand Avenue Elementary School and I continued my less than stellar performance there. …
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