"The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes"
http://media.causes.com/510213?p_id=2044718
After watching this video clip - twice - I came to realize something about myself, I find it hard not to be so cynical when I have seen the travesties commited in our world, and I suppose in the same sense it is hard for this 13 year old girl not to be so naive.
Unfortuneatly for my generation, though, this young girl is right.
The way previous generations have chosen to live and use the earth as their own personal rubbish container is directly affecting how I must live my life. The freedom of choice those generations enjoyed are not available to my generation, and it makes me wonder how this will affect the choices of my children and grandchildren. I can only imagine freedom of choice will only become more and more restricted as time passes, more species become extinct, and we continue to pollute our atmosphere until we can no longer breathe it in.
But, like I said in the beginning, I am cynical. I do not believe we have it in us as a Species to change our ways, and we will eventually become one of those who are threatened by extinction.
I thought this video was relevant to some of the topics covered in our previous class (October 1),
mostly the idea of 'post-post-modernism'. Just as post-modernism questioned the assumptions of modernism, post-post-modernism questions right and wrong and I believe will further erase the boundaries between "US" and "THEM".
Maybe the lack of distinction will point us in the right direction and help us answer the conundrum of reversing the seemingly irreversible damage that has been done.
