Who is this guy? blog post

In the book "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, the main character Meursault is somewhat uncaring, like everything is so troublesome, and i know i've felt like that before, i just felt like everything was too much to deal with and i was just so tired of everything, and because of that i lost some connection to the world because i didn't want to be involve with anything that would just tire me out or be troublesome to my schedule. I feel like i can connect with him, because doesn't seem to be completely on earth, like he's always in a daze, and i sometimes get like that.

I also don't think he's as uncaring as he seems, its just he's not one to show it one, or maybe he doesn't know how to show it, because in the book he mentions how his house "was just the right size when maman was here." it shows that he actually kind of misses her, it makes him notice that his house is kind of empty.

He kind of reminds me of a movie i saw once Garden State. The main character Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) is a kind of emotionless guy, he himself didn't show any sadness at his own mother's funeral, and in a dream he had he was apathetically sitting in a crashing air plane, but in the end he did start showing his feelings more, and that's what i think is going to happen to Meursault, when things get to a high point or maybe after that high point, he's going to express himself more.

Response to I <3 Huckabees

In this world we live in nothing yet everything makes sense, and everything yet nothing is meaningful.

Everyone has different views on the world, some think life is just a waste of time, and there's nothing exciting about this world, and others love it.

I personally believe this world is meaningful, and doesn't yet does make sense. There are a lot of people in this world, and just because something doesn't mean anything to you, doesn't mean it's the same for everybody else too. Everybody has different things they like and don't, what right do we have to say they're not important, because they all connect, "everything is the same, even if it's different"(Bernard + The Blanket), everything is same even though they have a different shape, look, color, they're still something we use, and we have feelings towards.

Even in Huckabees when that lady Caterine was trying to make everything meaningful, she just ended up connecting everything together, like when they were at Albert's parents house, "he was orphaned by civil war, you were orphaned by indifference", I don't know if the movie was purposely making everything connect or if it was by accident, but it only goes to prove even more that everything is connected.

It also shows how some things don't make sense, you don't how you should live your life, you just know what you learn, and what we learn and are taught makes sense, but the unknown doesn't. We know we need jobs for food, bills, and materials, we don't know why everybody hasn't starting to take action against global warning, why we even exist.

Banach post 2

It amazes me how we, ourselves, make our own freedom.

We make all these limitation, shortening our own freedom, when "nothing outside of us can determine what we are and what we are good for". We humans just appeared out of nowhere on this planet, and created our own existence, we created the rules we know, and the laws we have to follow.

We're all puppet, though we do have the freedom to think what we want, even though our body is being control the "mind's eye would still be free and untouched." we also other types of control, like what to watch on TV, or what to read. This is the freedom we created for ourselves, to give us more options to feel like we have some control over things.

Respond to David Banach's "the ethics of absolute freedom"

When David Banach said that " we are absolute individual" i think he meant that we are each our own person, there is only one of us. That there is no one absolutely like our, we are the only ones who understand ourselves completely. Other people can just see what we let them see; "Other people only see us from the outside", they can never know how we are inside and i agree with that.

I also find it interesting, because we're always saying we understand how you feel, or are always told that by other people, like a counselor when you're talking about your problem would try to reassure by saying i understand, but what people don't really focus on or know is that they don't actually know how someone feels, because they cant feel it, they just have a concept of it.

In the paper when he says absolute freedom, i don't think he actually means like 100% freedom, because thats not really possible in a society fill with rules and limits. I thought it meant more like the certain freedom a certain person has, like how absolute individual, it depends on the person how much freedom he has. Like nobody is the same person, nobody has the same amount of freedom.