Two Songs That I connected With (2)

My second song is  "People Help The People" by either Cherry Ghost or Birdy. Again I have no memory of when I first heard the song, but I remember loving it every time I heard it. Then earlier this year I heard it again on the blog of one of the students in out philosophy class (I think it was Jasmine's Blog). I immediately recognized the song even though singer was different. I think I connected with it because I think that everyone reaches a point in their life where they're really low, and really just need one person to acknowledge them.This song has  made me cry more than once.  I think it's about how people sleep around and with broken hearts. Other people's hearts and their own hearts and everyone hides how much they hurt and miss places, people and time periods. It made me feel better because I liked the idea that even when we don't have the courage to show our true weakened emotions, God knows and he understands, and if he does maybe one other individual in the planet will. I think the song appeals to the lonely, lost soul in us all we all pretend we're so much better than we really are,  deep down however, we're just a collective of  lives and silent thoughts  residing in separately from each other. I think the song says that every person you meet is shadowing a secret, a life experience a broken hear, their self worth. Behind their smile and everyday routines we're all waiting to be saved. I think the song is plea to not give up on humanity and to as people try to help others who are just like us. 

Two Songs that I connected With

The fist song is "When you were young" By the Killers. I don't remember the exact moment in which I first heard the song but I heard it again my sophomore year. I really enjoy the music and the lyrics of the song.  Whenever I hear this song i first think of Disney "You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy to To save you from your old ways". However I don't think the song is about a boy or romance. I think it's about the tendency for individuals to dream about the future and to think about the past, never really living in the moment. And while looking at the future and past one looses themselves and hope that someone will save them. When we're young we strive for perfection and we want to please people however as we grow old we realize that nothing is perfect and some of the lucky ones learn to move on from perfection. "They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet/ You don't have to drink right now/ But you can dip your feet/ Every once in a little while" I think this part of the song is saying that everyone makes mistakes and it's ok to let yourself be taken by them the important thing is to find yourself back.  I also think its about loss of innocence and the ability to recognize hardship. "And sometimes you close your eyes And see the place where you used to live
When you were young" I think humans have a tendency to look back to a place where they were once happy, it's a way to escape the world, even if it's only for a moment. Overall I think the song is saying it's ok to look back or to hope for a fairytale but in the end we have to accept reality and continue moving forward in hope of something, and we might surprise ourselves. 

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Plato in Responce to the Simpsons

The goal of an individual is to return to the original and perfect form. Art however leads you away and hinders your ability to distinguish the form from the copy. Art misleads society and the artists are responsible  for the  undermining of reason and the dialect. Art evokes emotions based on the aesthetic appeal and our own flawed interpretations of it. It does not in anyway help the individual reach the true meaning of the object. Art is a shadow of a copy and those who defend art live in a cave of shadows never experiencing the reality and reason. The Simpson picture was group of people from a tv show, on the smart board projection from a computer. The connection from reality was lost by numerous shadows of shadows of shadows. The topics in the show have satire and comment provides societal commentaries however like the paradox of the parable of the singer, people will not pay attention to the commentary. People notice the comedy and the connections to themselves as individuals instead of confronting society head on. 

Reflection on Hagel VS Marx debate

I was on the Hagel team but found flaws in both arguments.  Thought capitalism can be a good form of an economical system but has to be regulated  based the states current conditions. Under Capitalist conditions workers will inevitably lose control of their lives by losing control over their work, humans cannot pursue their happiness under the conditions of purely capitalist  societies. Hegel is in my opinion overly idealistic. He doesn't make sense of how the material world in the capitalist system have affected history. The idea that  the universal spirit is what drives human history is a bit to simplistic (perhaps the only simplistic part of Hagel). What really drives human history is hard to define to Marx it might class struggles, to a religious man it might be God, or the institutions of religions (some say religion is the cause of all wars) to others human determination and ambition drives history whether is be for better or worse (the idea of the American Dream is based on the idea that hard work and self motivation equal success). However Marx is also very  idealistic in the outcomes of his theories, I think that humans have drive and the will to improve current conditions. Human nature itself makes the utopian idea of Communism impossible. I think that a lots of their philosophy is very similar, with some differences. And as people who can read and study their philosophies we can take the good points they each make and somehow each as philosophy students make our own philosophy on how societies function and how to improve them. 

Draft of Song I was working on before deciding on Kesha

A true philosopher cannot be

 in a place like Athens

No matter how hard you may try, a pest is all they see

Poor Socrates

More than a philosopher you may be a prophet

For like you said

A philosopher will only be seen as a mad men

Now you’re sentenced to die.



and yet no apology,

you maintain your ideology?


why oh Socrates?

You’re no god.

However
It is better to suffer than to do injustice, you stick to your beliefs

And us like cowards simply agree

Yet the trial is for you, not I.


Unjust?

According to Socrates a man is unjust if he is not fulfilling his function “assigned job”. However what if a man works in a job he is not meant to, but does it for security, family, bills or any other factors that may go in to a job. Can we really call this man unjust? If a man works hard even in a job that he is not meant to work in is the man really unjust? Is he not only searching for his means of survival? Socrates himself stated that those meant to be philosophers abandon their calling because they live in a society where they are seen as mad or useless. Is the true philosopher unjust for simple looking to find a relevant tecne within his own society? 

Functions

In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.


                                    -From Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1602:
I agree with Socrates in that certain individuals are born with roles and some are meant to be leaders or in his terms Gaurdians. However, is life really so technical? That all of us are assigned functions, never free to explore other passions? No, I think that some are meant to be leaders, young Napoleon would play with toy soldiers and create intricate battle plans. However in life individuals are able to achive greatness and move from there assigned position. Frederick Douglas was born a slave, he would trade food for reading, he was bright and eventually became one of the biggest advocates abolition.  Others are called to certain tasks. Che Guevara studied to be a doctor, he came from a wealthy family, one motor cycle ride changed his function and destiny. He saw the poverty of the masses and knew he had to act. Manny dislike him others idealize him, but no matter what your opinion, one has to admire his ability to leave behind his wealthy and secure life to fight for something he felt was wrong.