Madeleine Gardner

English 101

Proposal: Nature or Nurture?

Intro:
Its 4 pm on a subtly warm afternoon in Washington, a woman
walks, she walks alone, she doesnt need a name to be referred by;
where she is going does not require a mere precedential anything from
her. She begins to effortlessly pick up her pace, she seems to be newly
exposed to a driving force deep within her. She lets the sun gleam
upon her where it may, her natural complexion lacks materialistic
decoration to shoo it away. Her grace welcomes it, allows it to fill her,
to guide her, she piles no layers on top of her stripped bare persona,
she feels no weight of the human experience as she doesnt fragment
her thought with language. She is free. I propose to you nowaccess
to a promise land of your own one that only exists once you remove
thoroughly your defined establishment of unoriginal human thought,
detach from your modern, yet ironically long-lived means of being,
subtract the ideological additives down the first layer and then eat that
layer. Your palette is now pure and ready to be walked upon, alone, not
lonely, socially undisturbed, internally singingand youll find it.

Problem:
The only problem is that this is not how you were naturally raised to
behave, ironically. Here are some primarily problematic causes that
lead to quietly distraught effects:

1.) Cause: Mass production is presently being centered on in

economics.
Effect: Because of this, there is power and egotism. In my opinion, this
should be strayed away from. One dealing with mass-production
should typically strive for a genuine good, ideally, in order to outwardly
truly benefit us all but with this being so, that is not the case,
whatsoever.

2.) Cause: We as people have now derived so many ideologies-layering on top of the heavy societal structure weve already been
living within.
Effect: The effect of this is so that there are very many man-made
assumptions; one could say artificial layers shielding ones self
conscious.

3.) Cause: There is lack of purity universally.

Effect: There is a malicious attempt to make life dependent on false

happiness through modernization (a money and power hungry
empirical world)
For a literary example, in the novel, Homo Faber, the main character
is criticized by his beloved for his viewing the world in such an
advanced fashion. You dont treat life as a form, she says, but as a
mere sum arrived as by addition, hence you have no relationship to
time because you have no relationship to death. Life is form in time.
Life is not matter and cannot be explained/mastered by technology.

She also says on another page that, technology (modernity): as a

knack of so arranging the world that we dont have to experience it.
The technologists mania for putting the Creation to use, because he
cant tolerate it as a partner, cant do anything with it; technology as
the knack of eliminating the world as resistance, for example, of
diluting it by speed, so that we dont have to experience it. Walter
Faber was being symbolically portrayed through his repetitive replies
towards Hanna, his beloved that he didnt know what she means. He
replied this numerous times just on this one page, branding himself in
context as the modern-logical-thinker-man. He said he is unfamiliar
and therefore misinterpreted (all his socially-constrained life).

4.) Cause: The creation of a verbal language as the basis for our
beings grounds of understanding has led to:
Effect: Unsuccessful (and easily dishonest) CommunicationEspecially
regarding a non-universal language: leading to greater possibility of
distortion and manipulation and constant alienation.

Center Problem:
The common problem I am proposing is: (In my opinion, in favor of the
common good): What modern humans are trying to do with the world
truly cannot be doneBut it has been commonly convinced otherwise
that it is technological advancement rather than deviation from the act
of living as being.

Solution:

Conscious expansion and highest form of being can be accessed

through consistent self-replenishment and seclusion in a place of
natural peace/ purity. Personal enlightenment taps into raw passion.

For example, in the German English-Translated Novel, Homo Faber by

Max Frisch that was published in Germany in 1957Max talks about
modern America (well, modern at the time) and they way he describes
their factual progression is similar to the way I am of modern
civilization as a whole, today.
He brings forth in his writing, his representative distaste of their new
pleasures and their dependence on artificially derived medicines, for
example, and/or their denial of death. Next: Their false happiness
as a direct effect of the best gadgets and global highways.

--Happiness comes from an un-medicated, un-mechanical, constantly

changing, unpredictable human experienceHe says it seems now to
him somewhat diluted or debased by the use of technology. He calls
it a very shallow, unnatural representation of the real experience.

True nature, in any sense, is more beneficial to long-term development

of human evolution. It seems to me that the mass-priority presently
hovers with egotism, centers on ownership. This greed I speak of is a
popular, modern and human-derived 6th sense. I think our subtle
demise routes back to when the enlightment was first derived by the
human brain. The definition of the enlightment was the ability to reach
virtue by obtainment of a great amount of knowledge; it is will for the
comprehensible system. This was the umbrella thought birth that

minds of human beings are capable of consistently improving nature.

Which, in my opinion (and many romantics opinions), is absurd. We as
a species began to idolize nature, but not in the way that I speak to
you of, in a way that nature could do no wrong and could ultimately
only be goodit was now able to be rationalized forevermore as the
basis/ the source of all good and beautiful in the world. And to this we
built our ideologies on corrupt thought.

We have long become ignorant via the ideals we, as a species, have
created, heavily preventing most from their natural course of being.

Nature teaches almost nothing immediately comprehendible by pure

language as you know it is the act of being naturalnot holy, but
balanced. Its indifferent.

There is a good representation of this (Ex.) In Bauldieres Flowers of

Evil (a famous romantic book of poetry that defines the mentality
well). He says, Evil is done effortlessly and naturallygood is always
the product of art.

See, Nature is impulse. Its beyond morality, in fact, its demeaning to

describe it with an artificial term man-created unnaturally. Its left

alone, its raw, its naturalwe need the organicnot the necessarily
good and perfect and polished all of the time.

With that being saidMy Proposal to you is:

Find yourself a place of refuge, a haven, if you will. The exact

place is hardly the point; the point is particularly what one could
receive from that seclusion aside from any modernized contribution a
human being could contribute. : I have come to the conclusion that
when your eyes arent being molded into the general scene, when one
isnt being integrated into the stream (Which is often the case in
settings containing multitudes of others)one is free to the
environment whole of your innate existence. And that is why extended
time of personal replenishment is of utmost importance (especially
with forces of opposition being so up in rank in modern society).
In Heilkers On Genres as Ways of Being essay, he defines
genre as a major medium of place. He says a genre is as if one was
being placed into a scene with a personalized mindset and that, that,
In fact, could dare them to be something. I contradictI dare you to
diminish your personal mindset and I dare you to be silent. I dare you
to open yourself up, raw and untouched to the world.

Human communication is inaccurate, just as its regularly and

fluently deceptive. Language, ironically, is the fastest route to
misunderstanding and deceit. It is, however, an inclination of our
natural existence and necessary in moderation. In my final opinion, I
suggest it would help our species as a whole if we learned to listen in
balance with our own projection. Try to immerse oneself always entirely
in the pool of perception and feeling being offered to you.

Cost and Benefit:

There Benefit being: See, the harmony Ive come across here, in this
place, is unaltered, virtuosity a mere civilization like ours couldnt
touch. We are a species suffocating for a recess of social constraint, a
suspension of defined establishment. We are internally dying to revive
the universal child in each one of us. This can be done so naturally by
refreshment like so.

There is not really any costas it cannot possibly take anything away
from you or society.

Conclusion:

Nature clarifies and purifies itself once left to just be and Nature: is
also consistently our source of life. Our thumbs, contrary to popular
belief, dont verify our desire as a species to promote our grimy grip
upon everything we are simply exposed to. On the contrary, the
disposition in an environment of human seclusion is consistently free of
expectation. Communication radiates and that is because it isnt held
on the grounds of a man-made language. Understanding doesnt thrive
in an incoherent array of attempted description. With that, I offer you,
whoever you may be, a breath of fresh air in an ingenuous place of
your own consideration.