A Very Different World

While reading "Born and Raised in a North Korean gulag" the idea of truth never being constant (http://iyagovos.blogspot.com/2010/09/truth.html#comments  -thanks for the insight James!) really solidified in my mind. During the presentations of our "objective" truths I found the arguments that consisted of people being taught something else unrealistic because I couldn't understand how anyone could have been taught otherwise. Now having read this article these claims against the objective truths seem more concrete than they did before.

It is surprising to me at how trusting our minds are, at how we, as human beings, believe things right off the bat. What also surprises me is how in “Born and Raised in a North Korean gulag” he thought that the prison that he was in was the way of life everywhere; it is surprisingly hard to understand how someone could possibly believe that was life for everybody. I think that, for me at least, not being able to understand how someone could believe something like that is because we live in a very different world comparatively. This is seen a lot in “We” because D-503 often writes about how the old world must have been very wild and how he cannot image a world like that because he has grown up in an entirely different environment.  

I also found that Shin’s feelings toward his mother and brother were very interesting. I think that this is interesting point because this also shows that truth also effects your emotions to a large extent. Because Shin had grown up feeling hatred toward them for trying to run away the truth of his love for her was then masked be his taught hate for her because of the pain she had inadvertently caused him.