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https://docs.google.com/a/guhsd.net/document/d/1hwRmZ1xeGXDud-5K1zues63OY6ZMcbSmeo8hzimoEAE/edit?usp=sharing

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9. Challenges to Modern Transcendentalism

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9. Challenges to Modern Transcendentalism

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Transcendentalism is the philosophical way of living advocated for by people such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. While transcendental living in the 1800s (When it was founded) was fairly easy, in the modern day there are many challenges to living out Transcendentalism in the full respect. Challenges to living out transcendentalism today are modern societal norms, with the prominence of technology being an obstruction to fully living transcendentally in the modern day.

Technology is a challenge to living out the transcendental tenets today because of the large prominence it retains in today’s society. Technology such as cars, televisions, computers, and telephones all impede the ability to live out the transcendental tenets. This impediment is found where cars cause most to prefer not to walk around in the world, which stops them from experiencing the world with all of their senses, no longer feeling the ground under their feet. The impediment found from televisions and computers is found in the prefered way of living: in front of televisions and computers, which in a way connects one to the outside world, but causes one to go outside and experience the world completely in a much lesser amount. Lastly telephones impede the ability to live transcendentally by radiating the illusion of connection by giving a way to talk to one’s peers. This illusion is impeding one’s ability by causing one to no longer want to walk to the person you want to talk to and connect naturally, rather promoting one to stay inside, “talking” with whomever one desires on the telephone. As a result of these technologies along with their prominence in our society, our ability to live transcendentally is impeded heavily.

The societal norms found in modern society all impede the ability to live out the transcendental tenets today, with technology doing this prominently. Technology does this by weakening our connection to nature and the macrocosm, causing us to rather stay indoors than to go outside and experience the world in its fullness.

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The Water of Italy Radiates a Connection to the Macrocosm

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The Water of Italy Radiates a Connection to the Macrocosm

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6. Modern Day Example of Transcendentalism

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6. Modern Day Example of Transcendentalism

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Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (Official Video) (as featured in Anyone But You)

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Focus on the good. That is what they say.

Focus on the good, not the no or the nay.

Focus on what is bright, what is love, what is life.

Focus on what you have, stride over jealousy, over strife.

Believe in what you love, what you are, what you become.

Believe in who you are, for your life has just begun.

Follow your own heart, your own mind, your own hand.

Follow all that you want, not just a single strand.

Begin to feel the emotion within your own heart

That feels so perfect, that brings you from the dark.

Be yourself. Be perfect. Be you. Be free.

Be what you were meant to be. Not him, and not me.

Your mind is your compass, now follow it well.

One can’t lose his path if his path is where he dwells.

Let your mind consume your soul, and your soul consume your mind.

Be the one to look forward. With loving, you intertwine.

The worries of the morning, the evening, the night

None of these matter if all you see is light.

This light can come above, for the love that you must find

Is where the light can reach you; only there you may hide.

Now go! Go! Be who you want to be!

Be yourself! Be perfect! Be you! Be free!

Be what you were meant to be! Not her, and not me!

It is true that you might find out there

That the world is not a tortoise and a hare.

It is true that you might find out there

That the world is dark, with black soot in the air.

However, if this comes forward to be the truth,

That the world is nothing but covered in soot,

Then you yourself must brighten the life.

You yourself must strike the fright.

The Fright that is needed to defeat the dark.

The light must be seeded for their minds to hark.

Their minds will hark at the solicitor’s coming.

At the knock of your light, their hearts will be thumping.

Be the one to bring the light so needed!

The light so needed! What must be seeded!

Liberate the souls of all the prisoners

That the wardens here control, who are held as visitors!

The only way to do this is for you to be free!

To be free of the wardens, yourself you must be!

Be yourself! Be perfect! Be you! Be free!

Be who you want to be. Be you. Be free.

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My contribution to this world we live in will be my music. I will endue all of myself into my music. My beliefs, my ideals, my emotions, my tendencies, my soul itself. I will endue my entire soul into my music so that way it may be able to live on in this world, influencing and inspiring those who happen to hear it, living as an extension of myself and hopefully one day bringing to another the great happiness that music has brought to me.

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"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
~Dead Poet's Society

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"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." ~Walt Whitman

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1A: Quote- "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

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1A: Quote- "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

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"I am glad to know that it takes a gang of men for every five miles to keep the sleepers down and level in their beds as it is, for this is a sign that they may sometime get up again" ~Henry David Thoreau

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"Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere" ~Henry David Thoreau

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"There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson