The Best Things Are Unexpected

I have to say when I first signed up for this class, there was a part of me that was not looking forward to it. I had it in my head that it was going to be just like any other literature class where the professor/teacher just gave you a book and then discussed it and when on to a completly different book. I loved this class because it was not that. We read all types of books but each book tied in together. It forced us to look deeper into it and understand the connections in our own minds. I loved how this class opened our eyes to ourselves in society whether it was "traditions" that we follow or how easily we fall into plentitude. I see myself going in to my job at a grocery store and seeing myself looking down the cereal asile and wondering why we need all of them, and I do the same for coffee. Why can't we have regular and decaf and be done with it. Why do we need 5 different name brands and 3 off brands. I even see this in my friends. My best friend wanted to buy a new big screen tv but he had just reciently bought one 2 years ago and all I could say to him is you have one that works just fine, why do you need a new one?
I found a quote the other day that really made me think back to Culture Jam when we were talking about the skewed view that we have in ourselves, how we view ourselves, and even other problems. We are always quick to blame society.

"Everyone is so quick to blame society for our faults and flaws, but we are society."

 

This quote is so true and this class made me realize that. We are not forced into buying the new smart phone every three months or that new tee shirt when we go shopping. We do it because we want to and then we blame society for making is and using it as a scapegoat. We are society and if we want society to change the first thing we have to do is change ourself.

 

I love how this class constantly made me thing and rethink about my life and my place in the world. I love how we were talking about how books can be dangerous and I said how it can plant a seed in your head and it grows from that. I believe that is what this class did, except not for the bad. The Professor chose specific books in which we read and it planted a seed in our head that we didn't know about, and now our views our changing. I honestly didnt realize that they had done this till about five seconds ago. I loved this class and I am sad that it is ending but I have to say that I have taken some amazing things from it and it rekindled my fire for literature.