Sunday, October 17, 2010
Gman,JFK, and MLK
These three men were persecute and attacked for doing exactly what Emerson said to do, to act on the knowledge they had collected. Throughout the lives of these men, they faced negative responses from the majority of the demographic they were appealing to, but as Emerson instructed, they continued to spread their messages, and ultimately were permanently removed from their worlds. These men exemplified the concept of putting the fear behind them to tell the world of their knowledge, even though they knew they were putting their lives in direct sights of their enemies. Its hard to believe that men like Ghandi and MLK were both shot trying to promote the message of peace and love to all the man kind; its strange that the people we revere as the greatest of men were not the ones who made the most money or grew their government the most, but its the people who are killed in cold blood like Ghandi and MLK. This makes me rethink about what it means to be a scholar, Bob Marley to many people was an ignorant pot head, but he sang and spread a message of loving everyone and treating everyone with equality (like Ghandi and MLK), a message I take seriously. So what my question is what defines a scholar?
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I made a mistake; the man's name is Gandhi. Sorry about that. Your response here is good. You are specific enough with your references, and you offer your opinion/response. I am glad that it is making you think about the topics. It is truly my belief that the best reason to study literature is to see the thoughts of these people who tried their best to offer an analysis of the times in which they lived. Emerson is so important because he challenged the writers of his day to stop being cowardly and lazy and offer the world a new perspective. His call, as you will see, pushed a number of people to do things that they might not have attempted otherwise.
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