Last week we watched the documentary called “We Live in Public.” This documentary made me think about things that I never really considered before. I never would have thought about how I would act in an environment where EVERYTHING I did was being recorded and people were purposely trying to break me. I probably never considered this because I would not choose to put myself in a situation like this one. I like my live to be private. Therefore, living it in public would not really make sense.
I think that Josh Harris is a very smart man. I also believe that sometimes people are too smart for their own good. Sometimes people are so smart that they are strange. These strange people have brilliant minds and create brilliant things, but there comes a point where the brilliance gets lost in the insanity. I believe that that is the case with Josh Harris. He had great ideas and he was always doing things before the rest of the world was ready for them. He was innovative and creative and he was always ready to start something new. I also believe that sometimes you can be so smart that you do stupid things. Sometimes you’re so smart that you forget about the value of other human being and you begin to purely see how you can use them for your own gain and benefit. I think that when someone gets to this level, it needs to somehow be contained and controlled.
I don’t think that his experiment with everyone living in public should have been legal. This was an environment where people were pushed to their mental and emotional limits and they had access to guns 24/7? That does not make any sense to me. At any time, someone could have snapped and killed every person in there. I also do not understand how the people doing the evaluations and providing security felt morally right doing the job that they were doing. I could not make myself do those types of things to another human being. It was sad. There was no value for human life. People began to lose their self respect and dignity. In addition, in this experiment, there was a child under the age of 13. I do not agree with this at all. In class, Dr. R said how is it different from a child being on the internet or on a social networking site. It is different because parents can control what their children see online. They can monitor them and place restrictions on certain websites. When everything is being broadcast, from sex to defecating, there is no control over what the child is exposed to. This should have been considered child endangerment. Seeing these types of things at a young age can cause serious psychological problems for the child in the future and they could have trouble having normal relationships with people. This was supposed to be a short entry so I will stop my rant on that topic now.
On the topic of The Feminist Movement, I was enlightened hearing about the debate between Dr. R, her colleagues, and Shayne Lee. I was surprised by Shayne Lee’s lack of professionalism and tact. I was embarrassed that this intellectual black man would stoop to such a level. I was impressed with the way Dr. R handled things and I was proud that she was my professor. Many times people get so caught up in emotions that they cannot have a truly intellectual debate or argument without attacking the other person or people (i.e. Shayne Lee). Dr. R was able to do this in a very tactful way. I also enjoyed hearing Sarah Jones’s “Your Revolution.” It is amazing that the things she was talking about then are still an issue today. It makes me wonder…is it ever going to change?
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