Last Exploration - Brian Klunder (I Forgot About It Edition)

While reading "The Idea of a Local Economy", the analysis of the author is eye-opening when he is discussing the hypocrisy of how we live in our modern society. "The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the house of nature", this quote alone really opened my eyes considering how many materials we use to support our daily lives and that even solving the crisis would just put it aside instead of fixing it directly. In conclusion, the only way we can fix this economic issue is with our participation as a people, instead of relying on the businesses to have a change of heart in their practices. Like Rachel said,  "We have the power to change it which is something everyone usually tends to forget about". As much as we would love to believe that the companies will do in what is best for everyone, they will never to such a thing as long as we bear ignorance towards their controversial productive methods and because of that companies take advantage on our ignorance and have horrible practices into being an economical powerhouse in their respectful industry. We often talk about how we want to create change in our world, but rarely do we attempt to in our society. We have to take actions by our own hands if we truly want a sustainable way of living that is best for the environment and for ourselves whether it be supporting our local businesses or gather up as a community to support each other in the form of a garden.

Honestly, this part was hard. I was not sure whether or not I should discuss my passions considering my silent character. But I decided to talk about an issue that is not often discussed in our culture, it is there but it seems to be ignored by a good amount of people. My topic is about the coddling of our generation and future generations that are rising up to the plate of College and soon Adulthood. In my opinion, something that we do not seem to talk about is the coddling of students in our generation. The talk about 'Trigger Warnings' and 'Safe Places' in Colleges just seem plain wrong, considering it is the final step for many students towards becoming a independent adult and because of how the World so often throws hard curve-balls at the speed of sound it will ultimately put the students into a position of failure. Although the idea of 'Trigger Warnings' may sound helpful to those that react negatively towards certain topics, ultimately all it does prevent them further from delving into their problems and fixing them head on and cause a social constraint in their lives. If anything it is a mature way to baby someone from being able to make an independent stand on such a thing, whether good and bad. Because some people look for the best interest of others, they believe that it is for the best to not 'trigger' anyone's emotions and as such they do their best to silence any awful person that may bring out said emotions. In conclusion, some will go to very questionable actions to make the campus a safer place for them. This has resulted into people abusing this aspect of coddling and use it as a weapon against any dissenters of their opinions. Same thing with these 'Safe Spaces', to have a special area that completely deflects any controversial and horrid things that a student may experience on campus just serves to take away the student's spine and stop them from growing in this hostile planet. Not only do these things disable their way of being rational towards different opinions, but it also motivates them to never conquer their opposing forces. Instead of confronting their innermost demons these phrases enable students to just run away from them. These are the people that we will be working with in a couple of years and to know this is just depressing. As much as I would like to go further into the problem, the issue is that it runs too deep and to explain it here would become too arduous. Because it has now just began to surface on mainstream media there are some clips that I would love to share with you to better define my discussion with any of you guys that are still on.           

                                                     

 

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(To give a better understanding of what is happening in this video: Yale told the students that they moderate their own actions in response towards Halloween coming up and are given the decision to decide what costumes are appropriate for the campus. As a result, these students do their best to bully persuade a high-ranking English instructor to take action and put certain bans on any horrible costumes instead of allowing students to grow up and make their own decisions).

(A discussion between a Moderate Feminist and a Fox News-anchor over the acts of some students to someone's opinions which differentiate from each other).