Who is This Guy?

I think that Meursault's character is a little detached from the world and people around him. He is an observer, watches what everyone else does and compares it to his life and what he does. Even though he sits back and watches I think that in some way that he is being affected by the world, he might just be holding it in because he does want his emotions to be shown. Even though he didn't show that he was affected by his mother's death maybe in some way he wished that he knew her and that she was apart of his life. That he had some connection to her and that she played a role in who he is. It seems like smoking is what keeps him distracted maybe its his "pure being ball".

I <3 Huckabees Response

I believe that we live in a world that is meaningfull and makes sense to different people in different ways. We all have different perceptions of the world because of the things that we went through and the people we have met along the journey. In I <3 Huckabees Albert's views the world as sort of this sad place where he feels like he is being watched. He feels detached from the people around him because no one understands his pain. On the other hand Brad thinks the world is meaningful because it is full of opportunit whether or not you have to step on people to get there. Its meaningful because he makes it meaningful. Brad in my opinion is concieted. I think we can all connect with Albert in the sense that most of us know what its like to feel disconnected at some point from the people around us. That as much as we try to explain what we are going through they still don't understand. People can connect with brad in the sense that the world is full of opportunity. Everyday opportunities are put infront of us, but what we do with them sort of defines us and gives people a glimpse of who you are and what you are about.
When the dectives ask Brad to say "How I am not myself?" I thought that question was interesting because then you have to figure out what makes you, you. The stuff that makes you is how you view the world as meaningful and if it makes any sense. your make up allows you to view things through your own lens or have on similar to someone else and somehow feel connected.
The "pure being ball" I thought was a way to have blank thoughts where nothing seemed meaningful to you. The ball allowed you to just exist and not have any thoughts. To be disengaged from the world and just be. The ball might even bring clarity to your problems and your life.

Manifesto Draft 1

After Reading Banach’s theories, repeatedly he makes me realize how much I want to feel connected to people. How much I appreciate all the people in my life and how they helped to make me who I am today. The arguments I get in with my parents, the family that I have, the friends I have kept; all my experiences with everyone in my life has a significance, they mean something to me. My authenticity threads from them. My thoughts, feelings, pains, pleasures, hopes and fears stem through and from them.
My mind is endless, but it is a sea of dreams, hopes, and desires. “Only we feel our pains, our pleasures, our hopes, and our fears immediately, subjectively, from the inside.” (Banach) I believe we feel this first in loneliness. When there is no one to share it with. We close ourselves off until someone comes along and tries to understand us or says something that reminds us of our own experience.

HW 4 Comment

Dear John,
I like how you went straight to your beliefs and just answered the question. Your very descriptive in how you view the world and it is through a lens that many people try an avoid. I like how you bring to light things that are everyday routines to most people in their lives. they do them and not realize that there is nothing changing in their lifestyle, so it becomes repetitive and boring.You also use quotes to explain your ideas and to prove you point.

-- Brittany

HW 4: response to part 3 and 4

Does everything happpen due to the decisions we make? Do I have an impact on someone everyday? how true am I to myself? Am I AUTHENTIC? How much of me is an individual? Why do we make decisions? How does this affect me and the people around me? Does our life have purpose? It doesn't because most people aspire for the same things. To go to college, get a bachelor, masters and Ph.D. To succeed in life, have a family. They do what their told or rebel. People find their own way of life instead of conforming to their own. I think AUTHENTIC is sort of bs because we are all authentic in our own ways. We make our own individuality, our own, hopes, dreams, desires and expectations.