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COMM 3030 - Communication and Social Responsibility
Posted posted by too_legit @ 12:01 PM
A Few semesters back I took an ecology class taught by Fred Montague. Fred turned the food web into poetry. He taught us that we all shared the same atoms, that all of us were really as old as the earth and that we just exchanged atoms to become something new. He said that when the wolf killed the rabbit, the rabbit became the wolf. This was his way of saying that we're all one. The last day of class he played us a song that illustrated his point in a slightly different way. Unfortunately I don't remember the name, or the artist, or the exact lyrics, but I do remember the singer singing, "I am a man, I am a woman, I am a bear, I am a tree...". He went on and listed several different parts of the earth and concluded that we're all one. Both the singer and Fred's point was that even though we all have different forms we're all connected and therefore we're all the same thing. When you think of the world in that light then the importance of social responsibility begins to shine.If we're all one then it's important that we all take care of each other and look out for another. I think a lot of people feel overwhelmed, like they have to stop every problem in the world to save/change the world, but really you just have to help the person next to you. The person next to you is the world. Changing yourself changes the world. This is why personal social responsibility is so important,we're all one.
