A south-korean named,Cho Seung -Hui, killed 33 students at the Virginia Tech University yesterday. Cho, first killed two students living in the dormitory and killed the rest 31 in the classroom building ,reports the Jamaica Observer. " why did the south-korean guy kill the students that didn't maintain any hostile relationship with him?" is something still unclear. Students living in the dorm describe Cho as a loner and there are some reports from one of his notes that he pour in hatred feelings towards "rich kids","debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" which could prove his motive for the ramphant shootings on the campus.In a similar incident in Canada's Dawson College, Kimveer Gill, killed one student and injured several others before killing himself. Gill had a strange behaviour and would spend most of the time playing violent video games and maintained isolation. Comparing Gill with Cho one can relate the two share some anti-social characteristics. So, this could probably tell that people that maintain isolation and solitude are most likely to be depressed with their life and the outcome of this could lead to fatal consequences. It is imperative that people who live in such condition be given proper support and counselling otherwise incident like these are prone to occur in the future.
Ishiguro's novel ," Never Let Me Go" is very thought provoking and well written. Set in alternate 1990s in an English Countryside, the novel demands lots of thought from the readers. Though the novel can be classified as science fiction, there is no real science out there. Although it is about cloning, the author doesn't dwell much on the science like where the clones come from? How are they kept alive? The novel deals more on the characters lives and their realtionship with each other. Though, often we find the characters in science fiction to be more rebellious, the characters in this novel don't really rebel. Thus, the question is left to the audience to answer. The writer is giving very little detail as the novel progresses to determine the plot and that makes the novel more interesting. There is touch of irony and humour however the tone of the narrator throughout the novel is emphatic. The novel also deals on existential questions like what it means to be human, what is soul? what really distinguishes human and soul? Thus, identity is also an important theme in the novel. A very good novel from the author of the "THE REMAINS OF THE DAY".
Would you believe if i say that we believe in two different worlds? We live in two different worlds. There is a world inside us and the world outside us. The outside world that we perceive is in perpetual conflict with the world inside us. The world outside is influencing our conciousness and trying to shape who we are? It is possible for us to physically disappear if we disappear from the areas of our brain. Our sorrounding ifluences our brain and the brain ifluences our thinking. We form the world through our sensory perceptions whereas the world itself is different alike. We are so much involved in our daily chores and relationships and this accustoms and conditions our brain to think this is what the reality is. Whereas the reality is different. We can cite this argument to the story formulate by socrates about the people living in the cave. If those people are tied their hands and subject to live in that place without moving their heads back and made to look just straight and project some shadow of some people moving on the screen. They are tend to believe that whatever they see infront of them as reality whereas in reality it is totally different. Those people would think that, that is the real world. And if after several of years one of them is made to leave and come outside of the cave. He wouldn't actually believe that the world outside is the real world in fact his eyes would actually get totally blindfolded and gradually get accustomed to this new or so called "real world". Our senses are conditioning the reality. Whereas our senses are totally untrustable, unreliable and undependable. Our eyes can actually see the surface of our skin and can't see through beyond the skin whereas in fact we know that we have veins and tissues inside the skin. In summary, our sensory perceptions create our world and we tend to beleive in this world. But we have no idea whatsoever thta the world we are condition to see doesn't picture the reality. The reality is our conciousness, our soul!!
sdTalking about personal identity, there is a famous story realted to this. There was a ship name thesus. Thesus , eversince been in the sea has gone through continual replacement of its old planks. Oneday it happened that the old planks from that ship isn't there anymore and has been replaced completely by new planks. So, the question is, should we call the name of the ship thesus?Whereas what if a enterpriser collect the replaced parts and build a thesus ship. Should we call the replaced one as the thesus ship or the original one as the thesus ship? There are many questions realted with personal identity of the being. Are we the same person as we were six yrs old and when we've become 19yrs old? What makes it who we are as we were before 1O yrs despite the fact that we are changing continually everday, in one or the other way. As we grow older, our appearance changes with the building of new cells and so does our characteristics. So, after a deep thinking we come to the conclusion that what makes who we are as we were is our memory. Should we forget our past experiences and memories, we'd lost our identity. If i can't remember the face i had yesterday, i would no longer be the same person as i was yesterday.My ability to recall my friends, jobs, sorroundings makes me feel that i am the same person as i was before. So, does this mean that the person who have amnesia aren't the same person? If it is true that our memory makes us who we are then everyday we could be a new person provided that we forget our past habits and characteristics and indulge ourselves in new works.
