Blogging Around

I read Cassie's blogs because she writes about interesting topics and I always end up reading more than one. I chose to write a comment on her blog about the connection between atoms and art. It stuck out because that isn't really  something that I would consider a connection but she made good reasons why it was. I myself am not an artist and when I look at art I don't look at the small details I mostly look at the big picture. My comment was:

"This was a good connection because I too can relate. I am not the type of person that looks closely at the little details but when I do step back I definitely see the bigger picture. My perspective on things does change."

I also read Karolina's blogs because she writes a lot about topics that I wouldn't really ever see. I read her blog about the inconvenient truth about the intentions of a teenage mind. The word teenage really stuck out to me so I decided to read it. She made a lot of good points about typical teenagers and a lot of stuff she wrote about was true. Teenagers believe that they have to act a certain way or do things just to seem like a normal teenager. My comment was:

"While reading this I was agreeing with a lot of what you were talking about. I myself am not 18 yet but  I doubt that turning 18 will change the way that I will act." 

Connection: Postmodernism

For the past few days in class we have been discussing the differences in between modernism and postmodernism. We talked about it from several subjects such as the individual, art, worldview, truth, and memory. We watched clips and read about some books to help us understand the differences between the two sides. We only spent a few days out of the week talking about but i'm sure we could have spent much longer discussing it. But what we talked about was really interesting and it made me think about how it relates to things in my life. Both things that have already happened and things that will happen in the future.

I think the ones that relate most to my life are the ones about worldview and memory. The worldview of postmodernism relates more to my life than the worldview of modernism. On the worksheet we used to reference in class, there is a point made that all voices- past and present-coexist and that originality is difficult. I believe that I am the same person I was a few years ago on the inside but on the outside there are obvious changes. It's the same with the world. There are obvious changes but it mostly stays the same in specific ways. So in the future I will change but in some ways I will still be the same.

The section on memory of postmodernism relates to my life because I have a lot of memories. On the worksheet it mentions that we a withing a memory; memory is not within us. So its almost as if it's an illusion. I have experienced and seen many things over the past 17 years but I have many memories that are still there but it's very hard to remember. For example, when I was younger. I don't remember specific things but I still have memories. We see things everyday but we don't remember every single thing but there is a memory that remains.

There are many more things about postmodernism that I can relate too and also modernism. But the memory and worldview sections relate the most to my way of life. I thought that this was a very interesting topic discussed in class. I'm glad I got to learn more about it.