Ishmael Chapter 10

In this chapter, Ishmael and the narrator talked about how the Takers are destroying everything, how the Takers don't seem to care about the world, the animals, or anything at all. From what I see, culture is good for an individual specie, but it's bad for the whole world. Why is it good for an individual specie? It's because when a specie has culture, then it needs to have a certain amount of intelligence, it's fascinating to see all the things humans have recovered from the past, and to see how we think at times. But then, it's really bad for the natural world, because when some species have cultures, they will learn the mistakes of the past, they will know how to do things more efficiently, and when they learn that, they will invent more things, and think of more way to be even more efficient. Then they will turn out like the humans, destroying everything, even themselves. It's just so unfair for the Leavers, they have done nothing, but then, they are the first who pays for everything.

Robert Mugabe: only believing

Basically, Mugabe has been the only Zimbabwe president for 28 years, he has created terrors in the country. No one seems to really care, because Zimbabwe doesn't have enough natural resources  for other people to go in and help. Mugabe has and still is using violence to gain what he wants, such as winning the election, taking the people's land, and much more. I think at first, Mugabe really believed what he was doing is right, people around him praised him, that's why he did all the things he did. Robert Mugabe's nephew even calls him their own "Moses". But now, I'm sure he now realizes the stuff he has done is wrong, but he can't just step down and say I'm sorry to everyone. So, that's why Zimbabwe is still in such a mess.

Dance Reflection

These are two reflection questions on the video shoot the Dance and Art class did together.

How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?

The original plan of our group was for Tyler and I to crawl slowly on the floor, and then to slowly rise up, sort of like zombies. After seeing the place however, we decided not to, the floor was filthy and covered in who knows what. Our group had other problems as well, since our group's choreography includes a lot of stuff on the floor, so we put clothes on the floor to make it "bearable". 

Now that you know this site better; if you were to go back to DongMen, what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?

Our theme was the people we usually don't look at, so i would decide to shoot it when it's darker, though I think you can adjust the lighting on a computer, so that doesn't really matter, though it might make the actors and actresses better. 

Saving Life on Earth

I find this talk simply amazing. Edward O. Wilson opened my mind more than anyone has ever done, the talk about how bacteria is the ruler of the world. I know nature's law: the survival of the fittest, and lots of times, when the world is going chaos, the fittest often are the most simple organisms, rather than the fierce animals we see. 

Humans think that humans are the fittest, they can do anything they want, they think they can use the technology and knowledge they have to control the world. They think they know everything, they think they know everything that's been going on, and how to solve it. But, the fact is that we don't know everything, there are thousands and even millions of things they haven't found out yet, and there will always be stuff they will never know. There are lots of incredible things yet to be discovered, and humans still think they are superior to everything. I think it's Mother Culture speaking to them, telling them: Look at all your achievements, you done great things, and even greater things are yet to come, keep going, and everything will be fine. Just like what Ishmael said our Mother Culture said to us.

Bacteria, the true ancestor of every living creature, is really the true master of the world. They cover everything, and they are everywhere. "IF" humans really did get rid of all the bacteria, then humans will die very soon, because humans need them to live, just as humans need everything else, it just haven't affected us directly yet. It's like Ishmael said, nature is balance, and if we don't keep that balance, we will die out. It's like the As, Bs, and the Cs, they kept the balance, and didn't think it was any law at all, they followed it, and they still have nature. 

Humans just need to find the balance, and they will be saved!!

Are there laws for Everything?

Ishmael said to his student that there are laws for everything, even a way of living, it's just we don't know it's out there. From that chapter of the book, I'm thinking that does everything really have a law applied to it? Is it really like gravity, no matter where you are on Earth, you will somehow be affected by it? I think humans would say that there aren't laws for everything, for example, the way of living. Humans might think that there's no certain way of living, it's just different cultures have different ways to live. If there are laws out there, then why don't we even have a single clue about it? But then, Ishmael said that before we knew anything about flying, we all have different ways of flying, well we thought we did. But then, after we knew the laws of areodynamics, all our ways of flying became the same, we all say now that this is how it's suppose to be done! I still think it's unlikely to have a way of living, because we are already living, it's not like flying, not all of them made it in the air. They didn't get the aircraft in the air with all the different ways, so that doesn't count as a way. But we have been living for quite some time now, so I think there are no certain way of living. I have a feeling that I'm going to be surprised.

I think it's genius that Ishmael said that the road to extinction is like falling down at 9.8 meters per second, accelerating faster and faster, it will be when we least expect it, it will come to us so suddenly, we will be so shocked as to why we have never thought of it before. Maybe it's Mother Culture speaking to us, she's telling us that everything will be all right or she just doesn't want us to face the fact that we are dying faster and faster by each second. I totally agree with Ishmael on the part. We don't know when to give up, we are blinded by something we never bother with.

The World Revolves Around "Us"

I am simply a complex Dog. A house Dog, who wants a comfy life living indoors. The world revolves around us, everything was made for us, even humans. I am much more kind than the others that roam outside of houses, I decided to own a few humans, and all of them came from the same family! I would never do anything to separate them. Whenever one of my humans decides to go for a walk, I always have to go with them, to protect them, in case they get into trouble. Sometimes there are "free" Dogs (the ones who are living outside houses and has no responsibilities) who try to scare my human, I have to scare them away first. When I'm resting in the house, they sometimes come annoy me. Being the superior species, I had to be patient, humans are shallow animals, they annoy me and one another for fun, I guess it's the only thing they can do. When the humans leave in the morning to "work" to make this world more convenient for us. When my humans come home, I have to sniff and see if they went anywhere inappropriate. We use humans to control the world, it seems that they are controlling, but it's really us that makes the decisions. We influence when they are young, and then, when they have control over other animals, we give orders. Dog is goD spelled the other way around, we are in disguise as harmless Dogs sitting at home. We live among humans now, watching over them in secret, always protecting. Always here.

Ethical and Social Rules

There was once no rules at all, before this world had cities or cars. Then small tribes began to appear, and from that day on, social rules appeared, the tribes that first found out that waste from our humans should be at an appropriate distance from where they live survived and populated. Natrually, there were leaders who took charge and prevented mayhem. As time went on, the ethical and social rules doubled and tripled, there was more to follow, more to learn.

How do we become conscious of the ethical and social rules in our societies?

There are so many ethical and social rules that we can never learn them all in a lifetime. We learn many of the most basic ones at home, from parents or guardians, who wants to best for you. After we have a vague idea of how we should behave in this world, we are starting school, and school takes us to another level or learning. At home, we learn about things, at school we can actaully experience some of them, and with the help of health class, we learn more about life. As we grow older and wiser, we understand why some things are wrong, and the punishment was not as simple as we thought it to be. All this talk about learning doesn't seem to say anything at all. So, in conclusion: We learn the ethical and social rules from everyone, doesn't matter who they are, we learn how to treat each other by knowing more people and listening to what they have to say.