Bewilderment & Logic

    The reading required plenty of abstract thinking to understand. The basis of the reading was how bewilderment can be poetic or politics. He tells us the importance of bewilderment but also of logic. He recites many poems and shows how bewilderment is a part of each poem. I like poetry like this because it can be interpreted many different ways depending on the person perspective. He talks about dreams and he says “The dreamer is aware that only everything else but this tiny dream exists and in this way the dream itself is free to act without restraint.” To me this means that because we know were dreaming, that consciousness allows are dreams to be very random. I think dreams is a prime example of how important bewilderment is. Dreams are confusing and in no way shape or form have to make sense or have valuable meaning but still it is a part of humans sleep cycle. If there was no purpose of dreams we wouldn't have them but we do showing that bewilderment is necessary. “He says that the politics of bewilderment goes to those who have little or no access to an audience or a government.” I thought this meant that people are often confused by politics because there is no clear cut answer to many of the thing that’s go on in our government. Everyone does not feel informed and that where the confusion derives from. This is where bewilderment serves as a negative because people would like solid answers solid and direct answers. This shows the importance of certainty in the world. We need a balance of certainty and bewilderment in the world to much of either is not ideal. My favorite part of the reading is the last sentence where he says “After all the point of art- like war- is show that life is worth living by showing that it isn't.” I metaphor use in this sentence is what makes it so amazing, by art and war both show how precious life is but the killing in war shows how valuable life is by showing how invaluable it is.