One of my favorite videos watched in this course was the film “Ecology of Mind” by Nora Bateson. The video is a summary of her fathers thoughts and reasoning’s in his life. One topic that I am interested in is the change in life and how it is everywhere. People may not know it, but change makes the world a better place because without it we would be making mistakes over and over again. With change, people learn from their mistakes and become better people because of them and they change their mistakes to something that is correct in their eyes. “The Wisdom of Recognition: Activism & Aesthetics” talks about this type of change and how people react to change.
“The Wisdom of Recognition: Activism & Aesthetics” has many points that I found interesting. The first is how they discuss the patterns within different cultures around the world. Another point was how they talk about aesthetics, which is the appreciation of beauty in something. Another topic discussed was metapatterns, which are multiple patterns that make up one big pattern. Also, even to this day, the ideas from Mary’s parents are still affecting her today. She has been surrounded by it her whole life, but every time she looks at it differently and understands it a lot more in depth.
Being a part of this class this semester has definitely opened my eyes in the world. With this class I look so much more into depth about common things I see everyday. This course was very lenient and it was a good break from my major classes that I am taking. Learning all the new material this semester has opened my eyes so much to where I see double binds in my daily life. However, the more I realize that they are there, the more prepared I am for future situations. This class was the first step to a different realm where I can relate multiple things to my life much more in depth and figure out different situations. Finally, the film that we focused in the class was the main aspect to making me think differently in my life and to really look into profundity.