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I commented on Anna Busch's post about progress and Future. In it she talked about how we live in a bubble of ignorance and how she hopes that one day our society can escape this bubble.

My comment to her:

Anna,
I really liked your post, but I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on somethings. I don't think that we will ever be able to live in a society devoid of ignorance, it's just too engrained in our lives. And at this point, it seems, that sometimes ignorance is the only way to go, but I wouldn't say that it is ALWAYS a bad thing. Sometimes subconscious ignorance is the only thing that keeps people going and I don't really have any issue with that, however conscious ignorance, now that I do have a problem with. I think that if you are willingly and knowingly denying something, then that's not okay, and that's where our society runs into an issue. How do we find the balance between conscious and subconscious ignorance? In order to reach the progress that you were talking about, I think that we as a global population must define this balance and then use it to our advantage to better our world. Great post though, I really liked your insights.


I commented on Jordan's blog about her Jane Eyre Mash up. She talked about challenging the status quo and how it related to our english curriculum so far this year.

My comment to her:

Jordan,
Your post made me think back on the books we have read this year and it made me realize how much they all have to do with challenging the status quo. "Orlando" challenges it by dressing as a man when she was a woman and writing, even though the spirit of her age made her hands shake to try and stop her from doing it. In "King Lear", Lear's daughters Goneril and Regan are rude and malicious towards their father, as they try to overthrow him and take his thrown. "Heart of Darkness" isn't so much about defying the status quo as it is about understanding it, the main character Marlow is thrown into Africa and forced to see the injustice of the status quo, but he also has to realize that there isn't much he can do about it. Lastly, "Jane Eyre" is all about her becoming a strong independent woman who chooses to be herself, instead of being like everyone else. It is a story of choices and how continuously Jane's choices, while they may be unpopular, are her choices and no one else's. Thank you for writing this post, it really made me think about how connected theses books are, I guess I had never really thought about them from this perspective before.