The Mystery and Meaning Reading was very interesting and I am definitely guilty of many of the things that the reading describes.\u00a0 I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, so I am always coming up with different possible scenarios in my head.\u00a0 I also analyze myself and others because I find it so interesting to understand people and how they ended up as the person they are today.\u00a0 After reading this, I was glad to know that it’s not just me who likes to have an answer to everything.<\/p>\n
However, the reading also discussed how when we don’t have all the information or answers about a person, we use what we have seen in the past to fill in the blanks ourselves.\u00a0 This made me think of Taylor Swift and how everyone used to say that she dated so many guys and wrote songs about all of them when they broke up because she was probably a crazy girlfriend.\u00a0 This caused her to get so much hate which is just wrong.\u00a0 I think this exemplifies what the reading was talking about because the public only knows her through magazines and interviews so they do not know her really well.\u00a0 So, they used the information they’ve seen in the past, which would be Taylor dating lots of guys and writing songs about ex-boyfriends, and created their own narrative to make sense of it, which is that she was a crazy (ex)girlfriend.\u00a0 This is only one example of how we can taint someone else’s image to our own eyes and how by doing so we are hurting them.<\/p>\n
I’ve learned about the Stanford Prison Experiment in my ldst 102 class and I still can’t believe that happened.\u00a0 It scares me to think that humans can so easily change and become corrupt once they receive power.\u00a0 And it makes me wonder why power is so important to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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