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"How I make sense of the American Way of Life"
I started off this year thinking that the only aspect that made up your American way of life was the routine that you did on an everyday basis and the activities you were interested in. As the year progressed I learned the many different things that could make up your American way of life like heath, birth, food and energy. Throughout each unit I gain new insight into the person that I am today and how broad my way of life actually was. All of the lessons have shown me to look deeper into new things that come up in my life so that my options are broader when I make decisions. It was in such shock by some of the things that I learned I went around to my loved ones to share the new insight that would also be affecting them as well. I now not only know more about myself and my way of life at the moment, I also know more about the decisions I’m going to make in the future and the life I want to live then.
Learning about the government and capitalism was extremely boring. I hated every moment of it and was delighted when it was over. I continuously rejected the slightest thought of capitalism and the government until after the unit when things that I was taught actually were showing up in my life and affecting it. I plan one day going into business, the thing that stood out the most to me was the supply and demand charts, I never really thought about how unstable a business could be and that changed my way of life a lot. I began to enjoy this unit after all and stopped trying to reject the boring subject from my way of life because it did affect my future way of life in the end.
Birth is still my favorite unit from this year. I never considered there to be much of an option when it came to birth. I never even considered birth to be a big part of my way of life at all. Well maybe 9 months of my life but that’s all. Now whenever the subject comes up I go on a tangent talking about my new insights on birth. I hope to one day have birth be a huge part of my life. At the start of this unit I thought or birth in many way except for the actual birthing process part. “In the future when I’m grown I know that my perspective is going to change, I will have more of a foundation to be confident in, and when the time comes I know I’m going to be excited for so long, excited to try for a baby, excited to be pregnant, have the baby shower, give birth and then watch them grown up. Overall I think birth is a wonder full experience just when the time is right and there is less of a chance for anything to turn out bad.” Now birthing is all I can think about when the idea of birth comes to mind. I learned so much about myself in this unit that it has spilled over into my way of life. I never saw how much birth was a part of mainstream America, until this unit. BIRTH became a trend and I couldn’t believe it, it was shocking in its own ways but the biggest thing that stood out to me was how much people let others influence their birth. This made me feel empowered and allowed me to think about my way of birth and the “trend’ that it won’t follow.
Health in America is so dumb! I can’t think of a more stupid system that won’t help others in need when they aren’t able to do it for themselves.
• health care
• economic inequality
• Food
• Energy
• connect them to each other and to deeper underlying patterns.
• You should share your orientation towards the American Way of Life
• Do you resist it?
• Enjoy it?
• Enjoy and resist different aspects?
• What aspects of the mainstream American Way of Life account for its global dominance and dominance here in the U.S.?
• What aspects of the American Way of Life are particularly tragic or dumb?
• How did the essential aspects of the American Way of Life develop and where are we headed?
• Please include some quotes from your own or others' earlier work that expresses strongly what you believe or what you don't (any longer) believe. |
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