While traveling we as humans observe and interact with different people, which builds and takes away our different individualism. There is no such think as "absolute individualism", as interpreted from David Banach. Each mind is different and by interacting with others you are "trying to understand" each other and taking away your own individualism.
"When you think of it, each of us is alone in the world." But even though it is true we all try and interact and to see whats in each others minds, we try and extend our knowledge pass our own skulls and thus adapting someones ideals and taking away our individualism. Each person has to be alone and not express their own ideals to others to separate themselves from the world and to stand out above the crowd. If each person in this world didn't talk to each other and just observed the world around them, they will have their own opinions, and no what others want them to think.
Even though this could be true, people can learn a lot from others by just watching what they do each day, and observe their behaviors. Then different ideals of how to lives or what to think about others, whats good or bad will affect a different mind. It all depends on how a person interprets it. In my opinion people have to be secluded from the world and to live alone with no other interactions but themselves to have true individualism.
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Hey Mr. Choi,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you talk about how if we want to achieve absolute individualism that we need to seclude ourselves from the world and interact with no one.
You're talking about about what absolute individualism, and connecting to what Banach say that we are all alone in this world. However, we cannot really do that because we have to learn from others, adapting their ideas as well. However, however, you also say that by just being within ourselves, not interacting with other, we can see, "observe" the world and not thinking about what others think.
I can see how your idea connects to how we think of ourselves, that we have to adapt to others' ideas and knowledge for us to learn further more, like in class, we have to participate. Then we think about it and puts that information inside our head to fill up the space of knowledge. And that we have to "interpret" as what we think, making that our opinions, or like you said, trying to understand them.
I think you can expand with the first paragraph, how there are no "absolute individualism" and how we learn from others can help us also make our own individuality.
Your post made me think about how in my own life, to learn, I need to look at others to know what I need to do to do this or that. But also in a way, as I have these knowledge and experiences in my head, I can make my own opinions that don't have to be same as others. We can make our individual, that we don't necessary have to be the same as others. However, I wonder, if we don't interact with others, I don't think there would be room for all of us human to be placed separately in this earth that we cannot meet with another person no matter how much we travel. *laughs*
Your ideas on the isolation was really good, and I agree with you on the whole. It was great reading your post. Hope to read your next one!~
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I liked your points. I like how you say that even though we are alone we still try and achieve accompaniment with other people. And this leads us to be more influenced by those people we communicate with.
ReplyDeleteI agree that by interacting with different people you expand your own knowledge and thoughts. They can lead you to have deeper thoughts or can give you some good points you yourself had never thought of. But this takes away from you being an absolute individual. I feel that secluding yourself would be effective but wouldn't really be possible. Humans strive for attention and the need to be close to other people. And no one would know they are original because they would not be able to see anyone else and I feel after a certain time most people would want to break out of the "box" and join the crowd.
I enjoyed your post. You had some really good thoughts.
Vincent
ReplyDeleteAs always, you disagree with the texts....
I thought Banach's interpretation is that we are all absolute individuals; that we are alone in this world; that we cannot feel or understand others.
I understand your point; people learn from others and act they way others do. Banach is saying that our individualism is our mind; no one can tell our minds what to do. Even if we learn from others, one person cannot learn the same way or the same exact thing as the way another person learns. We are absolute individuals made up of different experiences.
You have some spelling mistakes; for example in the second paragraph, "know" is spelled "no". Just make sure you proofread.
I feel that Banach is trying to say that existence comes before essence. Without being absolute individuals, we would not be able to perceive the world in a way so that we can create our identity.
It was a different point of view, thanks.