Anne Detrick Spring 2017 IGED 111 So You Killed Yourself for Two Weeks...Now What?? During this semester you've had some opportunity to think about the nature of your Self, your identity, the question of "Who am 17 TWO WEEKS WITHOUT... We gave up something. For most of that two weeks, our minds were tapping on our shoulders. saying "You want that-have it Smoko it, drink it, eat it--whatever it is go ahead and do it Remember how good it is? Anne isn't here she won't know. Our minds were active, busy and alive and paying attention. Why weren't our minds paying this close attention when we were studying math? Or learning about the building of the Pyramido? Economics? Political theory? Why now, when we wanted our minds to just work with us, were they suddenly and vividly awake. kicking into high gear when we passed by the CVS---That's where I get my green teal--or the corner of 14th and Irving -- "Oh the ladies with the com drink will be there later tonight want one." Why were they making us work so hard to just NOT have that thing we gave up? We were finally alive, but in all the wrong ways. Or was it? We did something hard. We didn't give in to our minds. We became aware of our minds and our thoughts. It was hard, but we were fully awake. And along the way, we became alive to the possibilities of what we can accomplish in the creation of ourselves. Our actual selves, not the selves created by our environment. It takes awareness. It takes paying attention. It takes the end of saying "I can't In the next paper we will ask if we spent these last two weeks creating ourselves or letting the thing, that thing we can't live without create us. Pick a partner and trade blog posts. 1. Think about what it takes to create your Self, what it takes to forge an identity. The sheer will that it took to not drink cranberry juice or green tea or coffee or soda, or to not eat sweets or meat. or to stay off of facebook or snapchat or instagram. It took a lot of strength. Read your partner's post and see if they had a difficult time (some didn't, for various reasons), think about how the fact they persevered and made it for two weeks has possibly strengthened them. They thought they couldn't live without soda but did: next time do you think they will say "I can't? Think deeply about the nature of identity and the nature of strength in creating that identity, especially given the notion that we are largely a collection of ideas, tastes, thoughts that come from our environment. 2. Edward Bernays, who is sometimes referred to as the father of public relations (marketing. advertising, etc), said the following: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important olement in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true power of our country. We are governed our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, our ideas formed largely by men we have never heard of His assertion is that we are not the creator of our ideas, our tastes, our minds. These are created by advertisers, the media social media. If this idea sounds interesting in any particular way to you, think about what this means (do not do any outside research). Talk about how the self is created. and speak specifically about how you think you may have come to some of your ideas about, for example, whatever thing you gave up, about gay marriage, about how often a dog should be washedited walked about Hispanics, about iPhone vs android, etc. If we are not fully awake when the ads, etc come over and through and into our minds, do you agree with his assertion that we have been formed? What role do you think that paying attention can have in the struggle to create ourselves, rather than let them be created? Remember to relate these ideas back to your partner's blog posts. Q 3. What surprised you about your partner's two weeks? This is a seemingly simple question but again, I'm asking you to think deeply about this. Don't mistake simple for simplistic swim into uncharted waters, explore what's under the water's surface. go deeper than you thought possible, 4. After reading their blog post who is your partner? What did they talk about in their post? Lack of sugar, caffeine, sleep? Did they grow from the experience? What did you learn about them and what did they learn about themselves? Some things to keep in mind 1. Think about paragraphing--never ever hand in a one-paragraph essay. Paragraphing should ook even on the paper--no paragraph should be two pages long, while another paragraph is two sentences 2.Use details-facts, not assertions. 3.Freewrite to get your ideas out. Sitting back and thinking about something is actually a lot less fruitful than writing about it. Write. 4. Don't write with the brakes on. DO NOT WRITE AND EDIT AT THE SAME TIME 5.Spend almost as long editing as you do writing. That is, if you get a good draft in three hours, spend about three hours editing it Your secins el Direct Deposit 6.Write the paper you would want to read. If you wouldn't want to read it, why would anyone else? 7. Have fun and take risks. :) The Fine Print Length: 750 words minimum. This is easy if you DON'T use assertions but instead really lay out the facts. Typed: Double-spaced, 12 point font Title: Yes, and make it fabulous.
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