My judgments are my own and it’s unique. I can’t predict when it happens and when to shut it down, just like my heart beats. I thought this way because whenever I am are faced with someone or something new, I don’t necessarily think over my thoughts to see if it’s reasonable or if I should not think these thoughts. I was questioning how Gladwell will be able to educate and teach someone to control their judgments and first impressions because everyone is different and their thoughts are of course not the same. However, I do understand how learning to control my snap judgments and first impressions is important because it gives people a second chance to prove who they are but everyone is entitled to their own judgment and not everyone has to agree with
The decision to survive is often determined by what that person thinks of themselves and the world around them at that time. In the readings assigned to this course I have seen stark differences between those that survived and those that did not survive. People like Parrado and Ralston see that there are reasons beyond merely themselves to survive. Then there are people like McCandless and Reuss who have turned their backs on the civilized world because they have become disillusioned with the world in general. McCandless and Reuss were not comfortable in the world that valued the obtainment of material things and the completion of specific accomplishments.
Even though both Jefferson and Grant Wiggins learned a good lesson, I felt that Grant was the one that had learn much more. Jefferson was just not open to his family members and those close to him, but had either recorded or kept his feelings inside. When he actually expressed his sadness and frustration to people, I guess some people would classify that as a big lesson learned, but I think Grant went through some major change. Grant had first felt that there was no point in his lifestyle. Why was he living like this?
For Ivan Ilyich’s enlightenment, he felt his existence through his relationship. Ivan experienced frustration when people treated him with false attitudes. People were not treating Ivan sincerely. People who treated Ivan nicely wanted something from Ivan. Ivan was terrified when he found out that the people around him were acting that they like him and worrying about him.
Berry’s intention to persuade readers depends whether the reader agrees or disagrees with his reasons. In the end, Berry presents his personal reasons he has for rejecting computer, but has no scientific evidence or any other way to support his reasons. In my personal opinion, Berry fails to persuade other than himself because most people could not identify with his reasons. The fact that many of what he considered his reasons’ strong seemed illogical to computers’ users. For that any many other factors, public might not feel persuade by
This is yet another factor to be taken into consideration when assessing the reasons as to why it is only natural for laymen to accede to how they are expected to live. In the Milgram experiment, we see a similar relationship being formed between the teacher and the subject, only on a smaller scale and in a slightly different context. When the subject takes notice of the fact that he is inflicting serious pain upon the learner, he attempts to resist authority by claiming that he is no longer willing to participate in the experiment, as it violates his moral code. In Chapter 5 of Obedience to Authority, this concept is exhibited in many dialogues between the experimenter and subject. “Subject: Well, that’s your opinion.
It is relentlessly passed on and around, constantly being shunned so that it never lands on, or is handed to, one specific person or group. Does not taking blame for something – particularly something you did not do – make you a bad person? From personal experience, one might say that society makes it seem so. In reality, however, that is not always – and usually is not – the case. For example, one might be “set-up” or framed for something, or simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He reviews two types of authority, one being rational and the other irrational. Rational authority would be considered being in a “teacher and student” atmosphere, where irrational authority is when one uses force to make another follow or obey. More people are prone to giving into rational authority because they are being compensated in some way. People are more apt to rebel or disobey irrational authority once they have conquered the fear of saying “No!”. It is harder to rebel in irrational authority because being a minority is a great fear of many, but what we have been told throughout history is that minority rules over majority.
Some of the stories were just plain weird, and i did not really understand what was going on no matter how many times i read them. Things just did not seem to make sense until i heard some of my classmates' thoughts, and Kens too. It was not that they were difficult reading, just more or less they had ideologies behind them that i did not pick up. For example, with 'Good Country People,' i still do not understand what the point of that story was. It was just about a guy who became what he thought people expected of him to get what he wanted.
Either to convince them to do something, to believe something, or to convince them of the bullshitter’s competency or knowledgeability. People may BS without intending to mislead anyone. Frankfurt asserts that bullshit is so common in the world because people are convinced that they must have an opinion about more or less anything and everything and so they speak about things that they really do not know anything about. “The lack of any significant connection between a person’s opinions and his apprehension of reality will be even more severe, needless to say, for someone who believes it his responsibility, as a conscientious moral agent, to evaluate events and conditions in all parts of the world.” (On Bullshit ) This is especially common in politics. No one person can be up to date on all current events, and yet people, especially politicians and others in positions of power, are expected to have an opinion on all of their country’s goings-on.