Ubuntu is a traditional African philosophy. Ubuntu literally means humanness or humanity to others.It helps give us an understanding of ourselves in relation with the world around us. It states how theres a special bond between everyone, and our interaction between other human beings helps us to discover our own human qualities. "We affirm our humanity when we acknowledge that of others." To me this means that you don't fully understand certain human qualities unless you yourself go through them and then you also see someone with the same experience. I can see others qualites and compare them to mine and see how they are the same and how they differ. It shows me how we all can share the same qualities. People may be completely different but we are all linked together because we all feel and go through some of the same things. This video relates to Jeremy Rifkins video on "the empathic civilization". Rifkin's video is about how we are all different in many ways but we all come from one man and one woman. We are all linked together, this is just like Ubuntu because Ubuntu says theres a special bond between everyone. Both Ubuntu and Rifkins video are about how we all need to work together to bring out the good in society. These things fit in with what were doing in this unit as a class. These things make me wonder, what will happen if we actually abide by what they are saying? Will the world will be a better place? Will humans learn to be kind and caring or will we still carry on with being selfish and not caring about anything other than yourself?
-How does it fit in with what you want to learn about in this unit?
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Your Not Alone
The articles that we read in class, All the Lonely People, and A Meeting of Solitudes by Roger Ebert, and the article about Being"fully" human online by Ezra Klein really got me thinking. What is it that makes people feel lonely? Does it start from a young age? Like if your parents had some affect on you? Or not having many friends to talk to? Or could it be that you have too many material things and not enough love coming from one person? Or is it just inside your brain? I honestly think loneliness starts inside you. I know many people who always say that they are lonely. But is it really that they are truly lonely or is that they don't know how to come out of there shell and be social or try and break that "loneliness bubble" that they put themselves in.
"So many of you were abused, physically beaten, bullied, called worthless, ostracized because you were gay, or the wrong color, or too tall or short or fat or thin or -- does it matter? The reasons for your mistreatment were not in yourself, but in the minds of those cruel ones hoping to hurt you. As a response, some of you have cut off, shut down, or isolated. From your lives you have learned the lesson to seek shelter."
This paragraph in all the lonely people tied in what I wanted to learn in this unit. I believe that this is like the question we were asking about what separates people from making decisions to push through hard things or just do nothing about them and worry for the rest of your life. Some people that have gone through all these terrible things sit at home lonely and do nothing with their lives, but some push through it and become stronger. They don't let these things hurt them. One of my family's friends had a terrible childhood that no one should ever go through. But that person is the strongest, most kind-hearted person I have ever met. Yes, she told me that she did feel lonely when she was younger but she pushed through it and now she never feels lonely.
One of the first things I thought about when reading the Ezra Klein article was the movie Avatar. The main character is in a wheelchair, but when he goes into this other world he can do anything he wants. He's not in his wheelchair anymore, and can run, walk, jump and use his legs again. Jason Rowe, one of the people Klein writes about talks about how he can have most of his abilities back in his online games. He says how it’s his window to the world.
"So many of you were abused, physically beaten, bullied, called worthless, ostracized because you were gay, or the wrong color, or too tall or short or fat or thin or -- does it matter? The reasons for your mistreatment were not in yourself, but in the minds of those cruel ones hoping to hurt you. As a response, some of you have cut off, shut down, or isolated. From your lives you have learned the lesson to seek shelter."
This paragraph in all the lonely people tied in what I wanted to learn in this unit. I believe that this is like the question we were asking about what separates people from making decisions to push through hard things or just do nothing about them and worry for the rest of your life. Some people that have gone through all these terrible things sit at home lonely and do nothing with their lives, but some push through it and become stronger. They don't let these things hurt them. One of my family's friends had a terrible childhood that no one should ever go through. But that person is the strongest, most kind-hearted person I have ever met. Yes, she told me that she did feel lonely when she was younger but she pushed through it and now she never feels lonely.
One of the first things I thought about when reading the Ezra Klein article was the movie Avatar. The main character is in a wheelchair, but when he goes into this other world he can do anything he wants. He's not in his wheelchair anymore, and can run, walk, jump and use his legs again. Jason Rowe, one of the people Klein writes about talks about how he can have most of his abilities back in his online games. He says how it’s his window to the world.
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