Self Expression is Part of Human Culture

November 30, 2008

Human Culture has evolved so much in the last century or so. It has become an advantage to use as political platform to launch people’s opinions and dreams. A way of convincing others to a form of thought, we see this process of self expression being used today as a regular daily activity.

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Some watch television and sing along with cartoons. Others go to church on Sunday and sing with the choir. Yet still, others may dance and shout at their favorite night club or football game on Monday nights. All of these things are examples of expression. But where did these ideas come from? Why are things the way they are now?

These are reactions we have observed over time within our own family’s environment. Over time these reactions have changed because of war, decadence, and evolution of thought. The result of these time changing events in our history reprints our imaginations and paints new pictures of our future on the backdrop of society.

“It is human nature to express oneself in the utmost way in order to gain an advantage of human thought” says Dr. Buss, author of The Handbook to Evolutionary Psychology (2005). “Human beings have animal like instincts to express themselves stronger and more powerful than the other…” Buss goes on to explain that over time we have created a more vibrant and exciting view of life this causing more violence and strange ways of amusing ourselves.

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These ways may be seen in our environment of human culture. For example, you wouldn’t still raise your children the same way your grandparents did. Today’s society is different and doesn’t accommodate the era of our relatives. However the thoughts and experiences do change our way of living. The stories we heard of Grandpa In the war may be where your families’ appreciation for god and country comes from.

If we trace our steps backwards we find that people used self expression as a way to communicate through a series of grunts and noises. During the early 1800’s man created music as a form of self expression, to tell of the happenings of the day. There weren’t any newspapers or televisions just each other’s word of mouth. Stories became real through the emotion of music.
Today music is just one of many different forms of self expression. We see human culture come out in art, books, television, and even in political arenas.
This presidential election brought more self expression and human culture than any other has in history. The way that race and gender had come together to invoke change added to the backdrop of human culture.

Paintings and newspapers that reflected the political arena of 2008 provoked change and became a part of our national history and hence a part of human culture.
Human culture is in all of us. It is an expression of our hopes and dreams, and our inner most desires. What we have done in the past and what happens to us in the future, ideas of grandeur will ultimately change the human culture we live in and reflect in the way we express ourselves from day to day.Image via Wikipedia

In the words of Albert Einstein, “Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life’s coming attractions”.

Image by 5348 Franco via Flickr~ Never stop imagining the future, but be sure to live in today~ K.D.C.2008.

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