English 102
Gary Brown
#1 “A Lazy Culture”
Response to Introduction to Criticism
By: Michael Ryan
After reading “An Introduction to Criticism”, I have developed a unique light on a lot of subjects. We have become a “lazy culture”. The short piece forces one to not take an idle approach to life and stereotypes. It encourages one to instead seek out each facet of the situation. By becoming the opposite entity, we force ourselves to take look at all possible perspectives and analyze situations with a less bias opinion. For many years America has taken the simple approach to compensate for a lack of concern to deal with the whole perspective. Ryan discusses a two-fold scenario with the Middle East. We are all too quick to assume that nations are “bad” when most times they are retaliating or trying to provide a means to protect what has been targeted in their lives. Although we are products of our environment, it is still our personal duty to research things for ourselves.
Due to our culture, religion, economic status and ideas, a lot of stories are told to capture viewpoints of the particular individual as opposed to just telling the actual events the way they happened. In order for events to be correctly portrayed, one must view the complete history accurately. The author states that many events are the result of a previous event that we do not take time to research. Ryan also points to the ability we as humans have to declare “wealth” to certain items that otherwise would lack any characteristics correlative to wealth. Being that “wealth” is nothing more than a portrait of beliefs by our society, we in turn control what wealth is even though most of us do not attain it. We control a lot more of society than we think. We just have to motivate ourselves to seek more. We are merely products of our environment and stories from the past. Who is the environment? We are. Who keeps the stories from the past in circulation? We do. With that being said, let us further educate ourselves in certain areas and broaden our perspectives before we pass the characteristics on to the next generation. From this article I’ve learned how lazy I am. Let us all strive to avoid the repetition of a “lazy culture”
Due to our culture, religion, economic status and ideas, a lot of stories are told to capture viewpoints of the particular individual as opposed to just telling the actual events the way they happened. In order for events to be correctly portrayed, one must view the complete history accurately. The author states that many events are the result of a previous event that we do not take time to research. Ryan also points to the ability we as humans have to declare “wealth” to certain items that otherwise would lack any characteristics correlative to wealth. Being that “wealth” is nothing more than a portrait of beliefs by our society, we in turn control what wealth is even though most of us do not attain it. We control a lot more of society than we think. We just have to motivate ourselves to seek more. We are merely products of our environment and stories from the past. Who is the environment? We are. Who keeps the stories from the past in circulation? We do. With that being said, let us further educate ourselves in certain areas and broaden our perspectives before we pass the characteristics on to the next generation. From this article I’ve learned how lazy I am. Let us all strive to avoid the repetition of a “lazy culture”
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