Opening 1 Reflections

Rip: A Remix Manifesto

I think it's interesting that medicine ideas are patented too. With this patent comes no room for growth, development or change.

The amount of money that the lawyers and companies take from people that copyright is ridiculous, especially when you consider the fact that most of these people who copyrighted were not doing it for money. So who really is the one exploiting the other for money?

The future cultures really do build off the past. We are controlled by a small number of people and things need to change.

Whispering in the Leaves

I think it's incredible to be that in touch with the sound and the world around you and to really pick up on and hone into things a lot of people don't hear and go their whole lives without even trying to hear.

I think you become a lot more one with yourself when you focus on all the little things that make up the life around you

Stories like this have a great facet on the radio because it's truly about the sound and what it makes you see in your head rather than seeing it and creating what you think it would sound like from that image.

Radio Lab: Who Are You?

I had never listened to a radio lab segment before, and I was definitely missing out. I really like how they give spaces of silence and just music to allow the audience to think.

I really enjoy the discussion they are having about how well you really know a person. How well can you ever really know someone and truly know that person? Which really makes me wonder, how well do you know yourself? Undoubtedly, you know yourself better than anyone else does but do you look past or shrug off certain parts of yourself as if they aren’t really you? Or do you pay attention to everything about yourself and accept all parts.

I really enjoy how they start the discussion about this topic by looking at babies and how their minds function.

I agree that you have to work off these leaps of faith because one day these babies will really experience these moments and learn from them.

One of the women featured on the segment wasn’t acknowledging certain aspects of her husband, and then when they came in, she didn’t think it was her husband at all. This goes back to my question, is there parts of yourself you refuse to acknowledge and then at times when those parts come in you convince yourself it isn’t you but rather just what the situation turned you into? So are you ignoring yourself? Or do you not want to know yourself or accept yourself?

Which leads well into deception, if you can deceive someone consciously, then you can get into their mind intimately. Perhaps you can just get lucky with the guess that it will work. But when it comes to knowing yourself, deceiving yourself enough to tell yourself that it is the situation that turns you into the person you tell yourself isn’t actually you, means that you truly do know yourself and deep down whether you want to accept it or not, you know the parts you chose not to acknowledge are a part of you as well.

But maybe this deception and self-convincing is what we have to do to survive with ourselves and love ourselves. Or maybe we don’t truly love ourselves with all our self-noted flaws until we stop deceiving ourselves.

So then can it be said that you don’t truly love another person unless you never deceive them?

I thought it was very interesting that the actor mentioned that Hamlet’s ability to put to words what he was discovering at death, ended before he discovered it. This is somewhat in reverse of the theory of brain growth in newborn babies that was discussed in the beginning. In both instances, the body and mind was discovering something it couldn’t entirely fathom at the moment. The inception of growth and awareness with the world around you and yourself.