Saturday, June 14, 2008

Engaging the culture, change the world?

So I guess I still havent gotten over making fun of this quote, SPU's theme verse, oh wait it only exists in the SPU bible (jk). I am all for it but a year removed from the pep ralleys (phil dog's speaches) I dont really know what it means anymore(I am giving myself a lot of credit believing that I actually understood it when I was at spu, fish stories are the best, they are the only type of story that gets better everytime you tell it). So post graduation I think I have made a legitamate attempt at engaging the world (I know longer understand the idea of engaging culture, let alone "the culture". Everywhere I go people do things differently, and believe different things, to say the least that is a lot of culture. The funny, sad thing is I still like my culture the best, not necessarily the culture of the US, but the culture of the life I lived in the US. The beautiful thing about culture is that I think in a broad sense it is just as individual as everything esle the US. And you can take a little bit from here and a little bit from there, and always people who what to live or at least partake in one or more of the little pieces of culture that make up the overall culture of your life. So where does that leave me, now that I am more interested in creating culture, and less interested in changing the world. The world always changes but maybe culture sticks around. So maybe more or less the phrase should be engage the world, and change the culture, because in reality we can change people, and thats where change starts, change people, change the culture and maybe have an effect on the world.

haha, so where am I, oh somewhere between changing my culture and giving up and taking the easy road(become a doctor, find a wife, have family, live in the suburbs and call it good(not that there is anything wrong with this)). And I might be changing a few people here and there, because I do rub everyone, in one way or another, I am not the type of person who can get away with being invisible.

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