To be or nah

Hello... It's me..  Okay now that we've got that out of the way

So, here's what its like now: still in seed arc, but now we in full swing of the expression phase, the details of which I will go into in another post following this one, but for yesterday and Tuesday, he vilest band was honking about something else: next arc

Yes, after decided there was just too much to do in human arc for to wait, Amanda prompted us with, you know, a relatively simple little brain teaser question: What does it mean to be human? 

Various members all had similar or related ideas, in our collective brainstorm word vomit session, we came up with the this:

In case you can't read our haphazard impeccable handwriting or just don't understand: it says something

Being Human: what makes us special?
Making mistakes, learning things, birth (death) learn, emotions, Homo Sapiens - biological, (social) interacting with others, metacognition, self awareness, "I think, therefore I am", not perfect - "susceptible to weakness", big brain, opposable thumbs, alive (survival), make decisions based in logic, creative

This is like just an appetizer, Amanda insists, to make it more palatable for us to jump right into thinking super critically about humans when the Human Arc actually starts in mid February. 

I have no objection to this: in fact, the private brainstorm I had the night before, was just as incoherent and inconclusive, and innocuous, but it's a start. 

I also expanded on some of these ideas in a nicer, listed Google doc: here.

Ignoring that I am a teenager and that my worldview and perception may or may not be overtly and naïvely cynical, as well inexperienced and not so fully fledged, I will elaborate on some of these topics that might seem a little less instinctive or natural or intuitive as the list we came up with collectively. 

In regard to the idea "To be known to, on occasion, be afraid or demeaning of members of their own species solely on the basis of the color of their skin", I have been intrigued by race relations and racism for a long time, so I find myself awkwardly trying to relate it to everything I see. Is everyone's experience perpetually decided by the pigment of their skin? Why and doesn't anyone find it so so insane that humans are the only ones that do this? I don't want to delve into it too much in what is supposed to be a lighthearted, "yay we're ahead of the game being intellectual and inquisitive about our origins!" kind of blogpost, but that's is my thinking behind that bullet point.

Until next time,

blorp,
sayuri