DRAM 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alan Watts, Maurice Maeterlinck, Tv Dinner
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Week 5: getting ideas from yta: children & philosophy. We have little awareness of the meaning of our own actions. Work within a range of assumptions and preconceptions that add up to a philosophy. Alan watts: video about how preconceptions dominate our ideas about how to raise children to survive in the world, he suggests that we are doing them a disservice, teaching them to believe in deeply flawed philosophy. The blue bird (maurice maeterlinck) the play is long for childrens entertainment. Craig"s remarks on the blue bird can never be too positive about what we"re seeing look at our own beliefs with skepticism. Beginning of the play, the children look across and assume the rich people are happier. People find cuteness" of bluebird annoying: thinks its meant to emulate the sound of a bird. They appear to wake": they weren"t really sleeping, or they go on sleeping.
