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Ethos: The Adventure

According to the Free Dictionary by Farlax, Ethos is: The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement. I see ethos as a very vague word. It can cover such a large amount of things, from a person’s opinion to how they live there lives. I see much of my opinions in my writing as well as many of my morals without me really knowing that they are influencing my writing. I believe each person is more than just a name and a face, but an entire world within a world. If you think of how many people are on the planet and that each person views the world in there own way, then that means there are over 6 billion different worlds coexisting at once. Just trying to wrap your mind around that concept is inconceivable and really impossible. I believe that the human mind does not have the capability to see the world as God does. In the assignment, a day without technology (which I didn’t do) all that was asked was to go a day without your phone, computer, and the internet basically. This would have a fairly simple assignment, but slightly irritating. But it wasn’t something life changing. I think if you truly want to see outside the box, try to imagine the world from just the people in your classrooms view. I tried to do this and was totally mind boggled. How do they see the world around us? Now once you have attempted this and most likely failed like I did, try to see from there point of view with there morals while you read there writing. If you can successfully do this, it will open your eyes to a whole new world. It will also in my opinion exponentially improve your criticism of there papers and your own. When you write a paper or blog, you have to come out of your body and see how someone that doesn’t know you at all will read and understand your paper. I believe that great writers such as Poe and twain, did not master this, but understood it more than others. I believe that this talent is the key part in determining whether you as an individual will be an average writer or a great one.

The ability to see life and the world outside of just your own view is breathtaking. Just the sheer vastness of the idea is crazy. For some it is something unknown. Psychologists all over the world have one question they are trying to answer, “How does the human mind work and how does it view the world around us?” Yet, even with thousands of great minds working to answer this one simple question, there is still no answer, only hypotheses.

To answer the question can I see a difference in my writing since the first day of class, yes I can. I have changed my view of the world. I saw it as one huge world that I could explore and everyone else was just there on their own voyage, but now I see that there is not one world but many that I myself travel through and affect as I live my everyday life. I see all these worlds interconnected so that one thing I do affects everything else, kind of like a ripple in a pond.

As to if my writing was hanging on a wall next to a Picasso, I would not see it as if I was proud or not but how my world differs from his. What in his world influenced him, what people in his world affected him, and how did his world affect the worlds around him? I see this is a painting, yes, but the fact that it is a painting is just a mere side fact. The true impact this “painting” shows me is just a peek into the world of this man I know nothing about, except for what he showed me in this glimpse of his world, this painting. Each time I sit down to write something whether it be a blog or a novel, I try and see how it might affect someone else’s life without me ever knowing. Will it better them or will it hurt them? Pride is a feeling that is only chemicals in the body being released in a certain sequence. Since I have started this class my eyes have changed and now see my world and the worlds around me which I affect and influence on a daily basis, and how I’m influencing them. Am I the good guy or am I the bad guy in the worlds around me? What are you?