individualcopycatism

are you an individual or an individual part on the assembly line
i left my house put on an ensemble
entered the train to sit next to my fashion twin
no i have not stooped into the valleys of vanity
i sat next to a guy wearing the same equivalent jeans the same colour
even the same back pack
it started to make me think
i picked this ensemble to fit in
but how many people do
for clothes provide two functions
warmth and statement
and across from me was a guy who have a jacket which i have at home and could of easily worn that day
which gets me onto how does individuality work within the confounds of a city
with regards to clothing
there are three roles
purchase alter or make your own
if you purchase then its possible others can purchase it and how man have been in the position where
their item of clothing or attempt at individualism has been thwarted by someone asking where did you get it
for they'd like to get it also

this is quite a problem for some people but is it only a problem of the vain but is it only a problem of the vain but if you wanted to make a statement you may get to this crossroad also
which have same people going to charity shops looking for retro outfits or altering them which may to a craze where your niche becomes a noose
and are unwillingly swept with the wheelbarrow
like with the glasses i have people come up to me asking
if their prescription
or otherwise which
can be perceived as a crowd follower

so does individualism always spawn into a group society perhaps that might be its aim for
fads die out
and never really get the said statement
but societies normally stay true
so is individualisms main problem the ferocity of fads and those who favour them
for their vain ends and favour the message none
such as che Guevara merchandisers
an anti capitalist malformed for capital
or for cool and type casting and boxing

so does individualism transform into individual grouping
for do originality and individuality collide
coincide and fraternise
or does individualism
transcend the boxes
used to exploit it
such as fashion
fashion accessories
which means you are failing your objectives
instead of rising to them
for the question beckons
can naked people be individuals
or are they really individuals
for the externals are
but the immaterial the abstract the illustrious


possibly

Boxes and open spaces

boxes and open spaces

boxes are used to carry and store things in
boxes are a way of containing controlling contorting
boxes are used for safety emotionally or agenda based
perhaps to protect yourself or protect a concept
some go by the saying those who are not for me are against me
but is everything so clear cut
hand in had with boxes are labels we are pattern based organisms but to what extent
but boxes are created internally or externally
logically if a +b then c
but the important part of the equation is if
proposing their could be an if not
boxes are limited their process is to limit to put a place holder upon something
can everything be boxed and should everything be boxed
 should birds be caged
the thing with boxes is we sometimes forget what the said thing was without a box
also with boxes we can seal them up store them up and never reopen them again
you may have boxes but who are the manufacturers of your boxes
for how ca we have boxes of things we have never solely experienced
this is where the box "society" comes in
it gives you these boxes which over time you identify with
man woman black white old young
and within that architecture gives rise to opposing forces and warring factions
and even hate

But what of the free spirit the wind like wanderer the enemy of the confined this seems to be their countless struggle the struggle against confinement restriction and regulation the cage-less creature perhaps tapping into the inner essence of man


You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? ~Rumi

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. ~Rumi

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? ~Rumi

Questioning why we stay in boxes for humanity is boxed cut off from nature cut off even from itself 

A philosophical film review #1 The wave/Die welle

Philosophical film review

The wave/ die welle

A german film with english subtitles

With a wealth of philosophical meals leaving leftovers in the case of food for thought

More than the layout of the plot we will interfuse concepts and plot timings

We start with a teacher called rainer who is very unorthodox

We then get to the subject matter one not really touched on regarding the german's view of the nazi's and their legacy bouncing around a state of of annoyance of the topic to the saying those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

This was the theme of the film the cloud they were cast under a risky move but considering how well the films production to this point i was intrigued

It started off with the question what is autocracy which was greeted with zero enthusiastic appeals and half assed answers for rainer to then answer this is when the brillaince of the film started he then questioned the students if it could happened again in germany they all waved if off

so he decided to do a practical thought based experiment so he starts of with minor changes such as a name change instead of rainer it is now mr wenger and to speak one must stand up understandly question arose but he claimed it made you more alert and made examples using students and their were some initial rebels which were dispelled but he made it their choice the very first signs of coercion some students even left but then notably returned he then started to use class participation turning it in for the students a hybrid of a practical lesson such a film documentary

over the days more changes were added put through the mouth of students drawing back to the source material like seeing a boy drawing art and suggesting he draw a logo and through oratation of a collective philosophy have the students spring into action proposing making websites and creating cohesiveness by saying the students do it together

he even gets the students to march but never addressing it as such but merely exercise which will bring union  and that it will annoy their enemies( the class he was meant to teach instead of autocracy) next uniform is introduce he asks the students their view on this and they agree the viewer can slowly see the transition going on here

one girl comes in to class without the uniform and feels alienated and is even ignored by the teacher and her suggestion regarding the name is overlooked she then stops coming to class and becomes an enemy of the now labelled movement this movement expands to the streets vandalisms and acts of violence

The questions brought forth by this movie are things such as the power of rhetoric and the power of the collective or the herd peoples longing for the other and what they can forsake in themselves for it reminding me of this quote

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)  

Also the power of groups and political models and what happens when we view another as the other and not as another self such as the uniforms were not just an attempt to establish the slef but to differentiate from the other

And how powerful ideas are and memetic nature they expressed for later in the film acts happen which are further down the fascist paths such as salutes and salutes to enter certain places intimidation to join the movement

also how quick this happened all within a week at a school of people well aware of the subject matter 

opening doors of thought to how a perfect if their can be perfect world could or would be run and that the world is based on to things force and persuasion when one fails you used the other

it also questions your stand and mental fortitude would you have been swept up with the wave would you be a rebel faction or just a middle man for it is easy to say in hindsight you would of not sided with the nazi's but would you have perhaps you are but it is under a different name

what strikes you is the way he got them to do all these openly fascist things without them expressing so much content and how they would lose themselves in the collective such as the famous experiment in america with the stanford prison experiment

problems of philosophy part 1

philosophy the love of wisdom
has been forgotten is a way of life
one cannot be a philosopher if one is merely text books and jargon
and they are just really fancy footed notion of simplistic ideals

philosophy is life it is ones being one reshapes one is remolded one is like water it can be of many states

philosophy has lost that people regurgitate without ever producing or improving on ideas writing papers of quantity not of quality
 why spend a thousand words mumbling over a subject which may be better said with a few lines

if philosophy is a way of life should it not deal with it not rummaging through ideas of archaic nature

philosophy is estranged from the very people it is here to influence the like minded and the not so

hiding behind doctorates yet professing to be ideally descendants of socrates who is so far away from the grotesque image they are.

the power of ones reasoning and ones argument meant one was qualified not their degrees

But corruption has sunk in selling books holding talks for name and office only

philosophy has fallen so far behind the other sciences it merely gives lips service to it

using science as back up yet it is not the case the other way round

philosophy begs importance begs to be acknowledged for works or yesteryear's

 siring scholars of impotent natures in matters of ideas and innovations