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Writing II

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Writing is one of many forms of self-expression. It’s about releasing a part of yourself, and allowing the whole world to experience it. There are many secrets that lie within the individual, only to be relased in a note scribbled in a notepad or typed upon a keyboard.

Black Angus

There are many ways one can preserve an emotion, time, or place in the future besides writing. There is photography in still and motion, and audio recordings. All of them came after the written word and seem to lose some of their meaning when recorded. Writing only includes what the individual thinks is important and my exclude things not noticed or overlooked by the individual. Writing is best for capturing an individual’s emotions at a specific time.

Field

We evolve every second, and it’s impossible to go back in time to fully understand the context of each sentence. Nobody can revisit a particular thought. Words are only as good as the fedality of the emotion they represent. We have to be careful not to distort the word from it’s orginal context.

Frozen Lake

I certainly do not know how to fully write down my experiences. As soon as I experience something, it changes me in a way that I can not go back. I see the world different minute by minute. Things have changed in my life since the last word I wrote was written, and I can never truly go back to that time in my life.

In A Field

I close my eyes for a moment to pause and think about what I just wrote. I’m already in a different place, despite breathing the same fresh mountain air I did a minute ago and hearing the same sounds of nature from a minute earlier. I’m doomed in keeping the past alive, but I’m not particularly saddened as I know I can experience other great things.

What Spurs Change?

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What causes humans to change their course? Below are listed several possibilities, roughly in the order they most often occur in. It is important to note that none of these items always happen, but when they do it is usually in this order.

  1. Environmental Change
  2. Scientific Discovery
  3. Technological Innovation
  4. Public Awareness of a Problem
  5. Political Change
  6. Corporate/Institutional Change

Usually the first three are largely accidental or beyond the control of humans. Public awareness is often spawned by scientific discovery, and occasionally technological innovation is spawned by public awareness (switching the order of the list around slightly). Public awareness is probably the most interesting, as it has the greatest instigator of change in the public.

The last two are less likely to happen right away, or be the root cause of change. Politics and corporations typically change in reaction to one of the first four, particularly the fourth one, as awareness is necessary to institute any change.

Red, Blue, and Blue Sky

What causes individuals to change their course? This implies the micro-level of investigation and causes specific to each person changing and not humans as a larger group.

  1. Social Pressures
  2. Personal/Moral Pressure
  3. New Laws or Regulation (Governmental)
  4. Corporate/Institutional Regulation Changes

The first two are done by the autonomous individual to maximize his personal comfort or fully engage in social situations. They involve questions of conscience, and nobody is forced to change under these conditions.

The second two are generally required, unless you move or otherwise act outside of the justification of control. Outside includes at home where nobody is watching, physically moving out of the jurisdiction, or quitting the employment or moving away from the social conditions that force one to act in a certain way.