ENG 2150 Gimme Shelter: the spaces we live in

In the Metropolis and Mental Life, we read about the blase effect. “Life makes one blasé because it stimulates the nerves to their utmost re-activity until they finally can no longer produce any reaction at all,” (329).

In the dictionary, the definition of Blase is –  “indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures”.

In life we can find many examples of what can represent the blase effect.

To start of we can talk about school. There are some people who enjoy school and some who don’t  and at some point I believe that everyone gets tired. We go through the same things all the way from elementary to college. WE deal with people, come across new information, bad and good teachers, and so many other things.  After a while we can expect to become indifferent. And everything after school also, which means a job. A job has us chasing the money that we want to use to enjoy life, but soon enough envelops us because of our hunger for the best quality of life. Day after day, we work and work, until the point where we just font want to and just don’t care about the job, but only what it brings to us at the end of the week or month. This all becomes boring at some point, and when it is your turn to enjoy life, we can honestly say we feel indifferent and bored with life.

In this picture we can see many different aspects of life. Time is one of the biggest concerns we have in life, and something that always stays in our mind. Whether we are putting it to good use or thinking about what our future holds for us. Staying connected a big part of our lives too. We meet so many people throughout our lives, people we love, people who we think will be around forever but end up leaving, and family that are always there. A lot of thought is put into this matter because no one wants to be lonely, and keeping up with friends and family is something we all need to do in order to live a good life. Then there are things that can be trivial to some people, while being of the utmost importance to others. The beauty of life and nature might appeal to some, while others want to adventure and experience new things from far places, like food and views. Money might not be important to all, but to most it is in the plan to live the perfect life. WE spend so much time that we may not even realize thinking about our future jobs and how we can make money to live, and thinking about the future also takes us to family. Not family that we grew up with, but the family that we will create and that would be ours. Last but not least comes love, something that we can experience from the youngest age to the oldest. It is something that can take over the body and mind, and countless hours,, days, weeks, and years are spent thinking about our beloved, who we want, and maybe if we will even find that person.

This picture shows simple pictures of many different aspects of life, and that is what reminds me of the Stream of Consciousness. We learn that our thoughts can stay still, but are also always moving. The aspects of our life are tings that we may not even realize we are thinking about, but are things that aree bouncing off the walls inside of our head. WE always think about life, money, family, friends, love, money, and so many other things. Since life is non-stop and always is changing, it can relate to the idea of our Consciousness being a stream. Vast and always moving, just like us in real life, things always changing and unexpected.