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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
"Jesus Stuff"
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News can be considered a modern commercial mouth of Mammon or Moloch, the worship of money and materialism. The ongoing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement is an example of beatitude being reborn in the down-trodden working-class.
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After being exposed to this interview in class I could not help but feel a huge change in my personal belief of who the “Beats” were. Prior to this clip being shown my perception of the beats was that they were a small group of rebellious individuals who were finding it difficult to change with the changing times around them. How wrong I feel now that I had ever made this assumption. After listening to this young man’s passionate speech and reading the “Beattitudes” book, I see how every single person can benefit from bringing, even an infinitesimal amount, pf beattitude into their personal life. This group was indeed rebellious in some sense, but they were rebelling against the fact that the heart of human nature was being destroyed by the power hungry and morally corrupt. A society that was becoming more and more brainwashed by the superficial technologies and tendencies that were becoming a growing part within civilization. The “Beats” were a culture that was unwilling to succumb to the new norms that had become the paradigm in which they found themselves. Desiring to bring the human race back to its roots; where one did acts of good for the greater of man kind and love, rather then for the good of a sole individual. “The Beatitudes reveal the goal of human existence, the ultimate of human acts: God calls us to his own beatitude,” (116, Wilson).
ReplyDeleteThe occupy wall street movement is interesting because, as the previous comment posted, it seems as if these people are a modern variation of the beats. They are downtrodden, and have had enough with certain issues in our society. Instead of hitting the road and searching for the enlightenment, these people chose to try and change the system through active protest.
ReplyDeleteThe "beat attitude" fits nicely over our many of our nation's current problems, such as loss of wealth and an increasingly hostile political environment. It will be interesting to see if a new "beat movement" will occur, or what beat influences, if any, begin to catch on.
I always felt that what was so special abou the Beat movement was the unity amongst people during that time. They truly believed in changing the world and existing within it to document it through written and spoken word. Existing now to witness the daily progress of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I feel that I have gained a deeper understanding of what the Beats were aiming to achieve, through a 21st century lens. In rising up against the hegemonic ideal (be it a political or social ideal) the people are united and coming out of their homes, becoming active in a movement instead of just sitting idly by. American culture has become so isolated in the age of technology so to see something like this taking place feels even more exciting and unusual. Occupy Wall Street has definitely been influenced by the Beat movement and I'm eager to see how the movement unfolds as a modern Beat movement.
ReplyDelete-Annabel Powell