Just some ideas, (still in written format....)
1) Culture (just cause I have to entertain this idea like always =))--
-Me, you, us, them
-Identity, what makes someone them? What makes them different then us? What makes you different then me?
-Maybe just focus on us and them?
-us-many similar people
-them-many different people
HEAD-SHOTS FOR TEXT?
2) Talk is trash--I realize this might be a little overused but I was inspired by the UD field hockey team who seem to be amazing at talking about them but never doing anything about it....maybe i don't know......
-text forms trash can!
3) Keine Panik!--This means don't panic in German. This came from the idea that we seem to be a culture (with this i mean the entire western world not just the US like i was talking about in the last project) that is always in panic when something happens. Maybe that is the way we have created the culture and maybe that isn't the right approach....isn't that what the captain of a sinking ship always says...."EVERYBODY DON'T PANIC!!!!" Maybe he is right ya know?
These ideas are obviously all very rudimentary and I don't really know if I'm happy with any of them so I have a lot of thinking left to do.
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I think you have three interesting ideas here that should be pursued further.
ReplyDeleteFirst, identities. As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze point out, are effects of difference. Meaning that not only are no two things are exactly the same but even the categories that we use two define individuals originate in difference. He writes, "If philosophy has a positive and direct relation to things, it is only insofar as philosophy claims to grasp the thing itself, according to what it is, in its difference from everything it is not, in other words, in its internal difference."
In other words there is the dichotomy of 'us and them', but there is also within this the difference between 'us' and 'us'.
The other idea I think has some real potential is the Don't Panic!! We do live in an age of fear. Many believe this is because we have this fragmented media now that is often partial to a particular political belief, so that instead of news we get these exaggerated stories that just are meant to get people worked up.