This makes me think about my own life. I tend to stay on Saint Mary's campus and pretend that there is not war, political problems, and natural disasters happening all around us. I would much rather sit on my thrown and convince myself that everything it perfect. On the contrary, I know that things are happening, so in my mind I sometimes exaggerate things and since I don't fully understand what is going on in the world around me, I am ignorant to the truth. For example, whenever I watch the news I tend to worry about the world because I don't understand foreign policies and world affairs.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The inferno
The last paragraph of Calvino's "Invisible Cities" was very interesting to me. It is true in the context of the book that you have two choices. You can sit there and think what you want about the world around you, or you can go out and find out the truth for yourself. Khan sat on his thrown and didn't want to know the truth. Part of him thought his empire was perfect, while the other part thought it was crumbling into nothing.
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I have to agree with your blog post here. :) I think we get so confined by our obsessions (like school) that we become completely blind to anything going on outside of our small, self-created universe. I think that, at this college, they are trying to encourage us to do exactly what Marco Polo suggests; to not just accept the world at face value OR to swallow every piece of information that is thrown at us, but to question everything we see and find out the truth for ourselves. Not RELATIVE TRUTH, but to realize the truths that maybe we don't even see that lie under the veneer of personal ambition or political agenda. once we can get past that, maybe then we can get down to the bones of the story that make up the Truth.
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