Blog 1

Zechariah Nelson

Beyazit Akman

Humanities 1

Blog #1

The misconceptions that people approach humanities indefinitely hinders and convolutes their understanding of western civilization. It is important to interpret humanities correctly and develop a true understanding of what it actually is and where it originates so that one can begin to understand why western civ has developed the way it has. Our academic community demands we know western civ because it is the acute understanding of why our culture chooses to teach the literature it does and why that literature is considered important. The academic disciplines of the human condition had to be passed on in some way and the literature that is used and idolized is merely what exists. To understand what is great we must compare it to what is not and if there were something greater we would study that and look to that for enlightenment. Western civ was not determined by the people but rather a result of the literature that the people considered  important.

The literature that appeals to our civilization, or at least what our civilization deems relevant to our society is literately what shaped all of western civ. Even the developments in the last one hundred years that I would consider extreme western civ were dramatically effected by the very first things ever written on paper. For Instance, the early writings and novels of the early centuries that focus on the development of the hero shaped the world into what it is today. Since human beings tend to relate to the individual rather than the masses the world began mold to what the individual appeals to. I would go as far as saying it is single handedly responsible for our industrial revolution and responsible for human beings infatuation with technology and media.