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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Adventure Time
Today we touched on some cool stuff while finishing up "Waste Land." The comparison was established between the events in the poem to the events in the works of Shakespeare or the Iliad. One of the questions asked was along the lines of whether or not we would rather have the great Odyssey adventure happen or not? I jokingly said that I'd rather have my man stay home with me, but as the discussion went on I really began to mull over that. I would take the adventure! My gosh, the problem with this generation is that we have lost our sense of adventure. We would seriously rather have the climax of our lives to be marriage and 2 and a half kids. Now all of those things are sweet but there is more to life? What if you had your sweet marriage and then you and your honey spent a few years exploring, adventuring. I'm not saying you have to go Hades and back but come on! MY, I want to see the world!
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Brittany, I think you may be finding the string that leads back to the beginning. We've talked a lot about circles and cycles in this class . . . maybe we're finding our way back? I think this is the intention of these authors. I have no doubt that it will grow darker first, but just like Dr. Mitchell echoed, there is a darkness that is actually hopeful because there is something that will follow.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that many have lost something of adventure. Whether it's the sense of adventure or the ability to discover real adventure, I'm not sure. You can see where our culture is going with movies and video games (and of course books) lately. We're trying to experience antiquity or the medieval age in everything.
>>You can see where our culture is going with movies and video games lately. We're trying to experience antiquity or the medieval age in everything.
DeleteYeah, except most of our videogames take us to Iraq, and we can fly home any time we feel like it. I like like videogames, but at the end of the day, it's just a thumb war.
That’s an interesting thought. It’s sort of funny because when I start a family has become what I’ve considered to be the turning point in my life, or I guess what would be the climactic point in my life. I missed class so your post is the first thing to have me thinking about it, and I have to agree that any sense of adventure has become so lost. It’s actually sort of sad. I’m legitimately thinking about it now and it has me rethinking quite a bit.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we as a society have lost our sense of adventure. The "American dream" has become a mundane search for wealth and we have decided to settle for what will make the most money not what we would love to do with our life. When we trade these two things we lose our sense of purpose, we become selfish and begin to destroy our personality in pursuit of greener grasses.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like society is starting to depend more on books and movies to quench their thirst for adventure. While "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" are amazing, they aren't reality. They only make me want to have an adventure of my own. Society needs to turn to travelling for adventure. I went with my grandmother to Venice, Italy over the summer and that was the greatest adventure ever. People really need to try and go on an adventure. There is plenty of time after they retire to sit at home all day.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely... where are all the adrenaline junkies of times past? People used to talk about the big wave they rode or the massive fish they landed or the mountain they climbed.... now all we talk about is our statuses or how many retweets we've had or what's trending. I think it is good to have adventures like it's good to have shakespeare : in the end, everyone learns a valuable lesson.
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