Wonderings/Questions:
1) This idea of being vulnerable, in a society that engraves in us that in order to succeed one must strive to supercede.
2) Your "Community" as Diaz questions is much larger than one's initial perception is. Aside from family and friends where else would you consider [your] community to extend to?
3) If Science Fiction is but a key for the human spirit to picture vast alternate realities of possible lumininated change for our world today, then what alternate reality would you offer the world?
Reflections:
1) I found his talk of vulnerability especially close to home. Growing up in a home and culture that not only focuses on the patriarchal dominance, but that as men vulnerability is one's true sign of weakness - shortcomings. I spent my entire childhood blanketed in vulnerability and it sent shockwaves throughout my family. But this allowance to be wrong, make mistakes, and cry even, also opened up endless questions to structures I felt were wrong or deserving of change. Nothing has made me more radical than the freedom to question.
2) It's such a subtle and touching realization that our idea of community is always evolving and constantly growing, perhaps without us ever even associating a community behind it. It is radical to stand and question, but it is through our gained connections that we can truly grow and expand. After all, we all live on this Earth and in a way we are all connected. One shouldn't box their community or stay blind to the continually growing community and strength we gain with each new interaction.
3) The world today and it's fast-paced growth in technology is a beautiful, yet, frightening image of how far we've come as humans, and how much farther we still need to go. The future itself frightens me when I see how affected the world has become, so the changes would be numerous, but I would love to see an end to fossil fuel dependency. Perhaps, on a smaller scale instate a limit of automobiles a family can acquire, then a focused improvement on public transportation, and lastly more attention placed on health and well-being, by making pedestrian and bicycle transport more feasible and proactive.
1) This idea of being vulnerable, in a society that engraves in us that in order to succeed one must strive to supercede.
2) Your "Community" as Diaz questions is much larger than one's initial perception is. Aside from family and friends where else would you consider [your] community to extend to?
3) If Science Fiction is but a key for the human spirit to picture vast alternate realities of possible lumininated change for our world today, then what alternate reality would you offer the world?
Reflections:
1) I found his talk of vulnerability especially close to home. Growing up in a home and culture that not only focuses on the patriarchal dominance, but that as men vulnerability is one's true sign of weakness - shortcomings. I spent my entire childhood blanketed in vulnerability and it sent shockwaves throughout my family. But this allowance to be wrong, make mistakes, and cry even, also opened up endless questions to structures I felt were wrong or deserving of change. Nothing has made me more radical than the freedom to question.
2) It's such a subtle and touching realization that our idea of community is always evolving and constantly growing, perhaps without us ever even associating a community behind it. It is radical to stand and question, but it is through our gained connections that we can truly grow and expand. After all, we all live on this Earth and in a way we are all connected. One shouldn't box their community or stay blind to the continually growing community and strength we gain with each new interaction.
3) The world today and it's fast-paced growth in technology is a beautiful, yet, frightening image of how far we've come as humans, and how much farther we still need to go. The future itself frightens me when I see how affected the world has become, so the changes would be numerous, but I would love to see an end to fossil fuel dependency. Perhaps, on a smaller scale instate a limit of automobiles a family can acquire, then a focused improvement on public transportation, and lastly more attention placed on health and well-being, by making pedestrian and bicycle transport more feasible and proactive.
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