domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

Politics, directed by Gonzalo Serna

Gonzalo Serna has been my teacher since year 9, and since the first class I had with him I had a lot of fun, just because he talks about topics that are sometimes not very common or considered taboos. He has very controversial points of view and he is very honest in everything he says and thinks.

When he started explaining about Politics as a way of knowing, I already had an idea of what he was going to cover in his presentation; how we are condemned to live in a society where in order for us to be happy we have to be productive, or how our ideals make us have our "own little world", and I was not wrong, he covered these topics in his presentations.

He started by stating how politics where everywhere in our lives. Basically we all have very different opinions and ideals about things that surrounds us, this kind of isolates us from other people, I see it as if these ideals and perspectives were a bubble that surrounded us, and in order for us to live, we have to bump into other people's bubbles, or sometimes even share bubbles. We can either agree or disagree with other peoples' bubbles,  and that is where politics happen, when we have to share, express, agree or even disagree with some things.

The last topic discussed was about our role in society, and how society expects something from us, because when we are young we get education and goods, but society expects that when we grow up we provide the same for future generations.

Considered this, society has to make sure we will provide these goods to future generations, and for this, it makes us think that a person who doesn't provide these things for the future generations is a bad person, and it should be judged, but a person who does a great effort to provide them is a good person.

1 comentario:

  1. Sergio,

    I am glad you enjoyed his lecture. Please try and let me know what YOU think on the wider issues to do with Politics.

    Where is your blog entry on History?

    Mr. Tomalin

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