Hey y’all! New park rant about living in the age of information! Is it a great thing? Is it a terrible thing? Is it a mixture of both? (Duh) because we know SOOO much about our heroes, will their legacy be the same as the likes of Julius Caesar? Listen and give me your thoughts!
Is it? Or are we setting up a standard where our future heros are WORTH being seen as a hero?
And with the lack of mythologizing, it's an inherent acknowledgement of the humanity of it all. I think that's necessary for growth.
And for the record, the way I treat you, Trae and Drew relates to this. To me there are 2 Coreys.. there's on Corey and off Corey. On Corey is the public figure. On Corey gets mythologized. On Corey is you but he's not really you. I make fun of yalls on personas, occasionally troll them, Squee about going to shows etc. And just generally be a dumb fan. Then Theres off Corey and that's the Corey for your wife and friends and shit. That Corey is off limits to everyone except the people who off Corey chooses. Essentially I'm making the choice to have my cake and eat it too. To recognize the humanity of everyone and still get to like...ya know...be a dumb fan. I think it can be a conscious choice. I think we SHOULD choose to strike a balance between mythologizing and acknowledging humanity. Because like I said...acknowledging the humanity does mean negative shit and people will take it to the max but at the end of the day it sets up a future with better heros, better role models but it doesn't mean we HAVE TO lose our sense of whimsy and wonder. I think we can choose both.
100% agree. I can't wait to bring this up with my friends next time we're talking about some deep shit. Don't worry, I'll definitely credit "hey Corey, you dumb dumb" LOL. Love your stuff, keep on hittin'.
One of my history professors used to talk a lot about “changing lenses” when we view history. Viewing people, wars, or anything historically without changing your lens (which really requires knowledge of general context from that time) is going to have a very negative effect on how history is perceived. He also talked a lot about how the “arrogance of modernity” is something that is really becoming a problem and is shaping our view of history. We can’t assume we are so much more intelligent, capable, or moral than people who came before us. Mythologizing people is bad for historical understanding, but good for public morale or for advancing a cause.
A person, pre-internet, whose legacy I think will remain untarnished is Eleanor Roosevelt. She held some viewpoints that were very unpopular at the time: she was against the internment of Japanese Americans, she supported Marian Anderson and resigned from the DAR when they wouldn’t let her sing at Constitution Hall, she supported rights for women and minorities, and so on.
Would she still be viewed the same way if Twitter had been around back then? I think so. If you read some of her writings, she was very thoughtful and intelligent. Like Obama, she knew the power of words, and she wouldn’t have tweeted out every stupid thought that came into her head.
Now, I should probably go delete all my dumb tweets! 😜
I totally agree on Obama, he was the first name that came to mind, before you brought him up.
I think trumps tweets gave us ( meaning people with a moral compass) an insight into how truly awful he was. I also it allowed folks not like us to roll around in the hatred like pigs in shit.
So I guess I agree with you too much info can be a double edged sword 😘
Is it? Or are we setting up a standard where our future heros are WORTH being seen as a hero?
And with the lack of mythologizing, it's an inherent acknowledgement of the humanity of it all. I think that's necessary for growth.
And for the record, the way I treat you, Trae and Drew relates to this. To me there are 2 Coreys.. there's on Corey and off Corey. On Corey is the public figure. On Corey gets mythologized. On Corey is you but he's not really you. I make fun of yalls on personas, occasionally troll them, Squee about going to shows etc. And just generally be a dumb fan. Then Theres off Corey and that's the Corey for your wife and friends and shit. That Corey is off limits to everyone except the people who off Corey chooses. Essentially I'm making the choice to have my cake and eat it too. To recognize the humanity of everyone and still get to like...ya know...be a dumb fan. I think it can be a conscious choice. I think we SHOULD choose to strike a balance between mythologizing and acknowledging humanity. Because like I said...acknowledging the humanity does mean negative shit and people will take it to the max but at the end of the day it sets up a future with better heros, better role models but it doesn't mean we HAVE TO lose our sense of whimsy and wonder. I think we can choose both.
100% agree. I can't wait to bring this up with my friends next time we're talking about some deep shit. Don't worry, I'll definitely credit "hey Corey, you dumb dumb" LOL. Love your stuff, keep on hittin'.
Corey just RIPPING one and keep on keeping on!
One of my history professors used to talk a lot about “changing lenses” when we view history. Viewing people, wars, or anything historically without changing your lens (which really requires knowledge of general context from that time) is going to have a very negative effect on how history is perceived. He also talked a lot about how the “arrogance of modernity” is something that is really becoming a problem and is shaping our view of history. We can’t assume we are so much more intelligent, capable, or moral than people who came before us. Mythologizing people is bad for historical understanding, but good for public morale or for advancing a cause.
I agree. There’s good and bad about all the access to info for the same reasons you mentioned.
I think we’ve still not been able to figure out as a society how to manage all this info.
We don’t want to sensor, yet the mis and disinformation flowing around out there is causing some serious harm, to at least our country.
And I agree about Reagan.
The Reagan Revolution really messed us up. The majority of Americans fell for his and his accomplices’ smooth rhetoric.
Now, look at us- largest wage gap in American history.
A person, pre-internet, whose legacy I think will remain untarnished is Eleanor Roosevelt. She held some viewpoints that were very unpopular at the time: she was against the internment of Japanese Americans, she supported Marian Anderson and resigned from the DAR when they wouldn’t let her sing at Constitution Hall, she supported rights for women and minorities, and so on.
Would she still be viewed the same way if Twitter had been around back then? I think so. If you read some of her writings, she was very thoughtful and intelligent. Like Obama, she knew the power of words, and she wouldn’t have tweeted out every stupid thought that came into her head.
Now, I should probably go delete all my dumb tweets! 😜
I totally agree on Obama, he was the first name that came to mind, before you brought him up.
I think trumps tweets gave us ( meaning people with a moral compass) an insight into how truly awful he was. I also it allowed folks not like us to roll around in the hatred like pigs in shit.
So I guess I agree with you too much info can be a double edged sword 😘
Love ya lots,
Ally from Florida