Society of Others Ch. 1

 

I think it is possible for two opposite statements to be true for example when I say “I love myself when I do the right things” and “I hate my self when I do wrong things” are two true things about me.  In Chapter one of the story Society of Others, I think the narrator’s point of view is true because we are just buying and selling stuff to each other then we decide that we want something else that is better and so on.  I agree that the narrator simply see things as they are because is true but maybe he should be more positive and stop being so negative.  There were many statements that the narrator pointed out that I totally disagree, but also some that I do agree with.  For example, I agree that nature is selfish and all creatures kill to survive.  I agree that Love is a mechanism to propagate the species.  I disagree that beauty is a trick that fades because beauty is always in the inside for example feelings and emotions so it never fades.  Friendship is an arrangement for mutual advantage is false because friendship is about caring for each other.  Goodness is not rewarded, and evil is not punish is a false statement because goodness is always rewarded with something good and evil is punished by getting rid of it.  Religion is superstition is also a wrong statement because religion is a belief.  Death is annihilation is also not true because I believe this is the moment when we get to live with god.  Finally, if god exists at all he stopped caring for human kind is a very wrong statement in my opinion because I believe that everything bad happened because that’s how he destined to be.  In the story, I disagree with the narrator’s point of view about school because you have to go to school in order to get an education and do something important in life, he just didn’t care.  When the narrator says, “I tell him the thing about a mountain is when you’re on it you don’t see it. You need to be far away to see the mountain” maybe means that you don’t see things clearly when they happen, but once you are having problems you see everything.  When the narrator says, “Getting what you want is to be avoided at all costs” might be that he is talking about how excitement fades away when you get what you want.  I don’t think the narrator has a good relationship with his parents because he don’t listen to them he just wants to be alone while his whole family wants him to do something productive  with his life.  I don’t think the narrator has a good relationship with his girlfriend Am either because he is selfish like he wouldn’t solve their problem if there were any and he just wants her mostly for sex.  I would describe the author’s attitude as ignorant because he doesn’t care about anything in life, but he is right to feel the way he does because everybody is different and have their own free will to do whatever they want.  I believe that the narrator’s point of view about life is kind of negative.  For example when he said “first thoughts are usually lies”.  I think this means that what he thinks is right at first, it comes out to be wrong.  This relates to existentialism in a way that everything in life ends up wrong in the end.  Another example is when he said “I don’t even want money”.  He thinks that money means nothing to him and he can be without it.  This relates to existentialism because you don’t need money to live.  Last, he said “Nothing.  I’m tired by nothing.  Nothing exhausts me.”  He feels tired that he can do nothing in life because it doesn’t matter for him anyway.  This relates to existentialism because you could live life without doing nothing productive.