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I’ve heard some people praise this to no end (usually mentioning Faulkner or Joyce or Wolf or etc.) and I’ve heard others absolutely hate this.

What are your thoughts on it? Do you like stream of consciousness? What are ways that you feel writers poorly convey this style?

Good question. When well done, it’s a great style of narrative. I like to think of Jack Kerouac as the epitome of stream of consciousness. His motto: "First thought, best thought." To make a passage feel like stream of consciousness is difficult, but to make it feel like it’s been improvised is nearly impossible.

When writers abuse stream of consciousness it’s usually because they haven’t fully established their characters and want an easy way to allow the reader into the character’s head. It can feel like cheating when this happens. Rather than developing their characters fully through action and description, they try to tell the reader who the person is through their thoughts/manner of thinking. This type of narrative is difficult and takes practice; an unpracticed SoC writer is easy to spot by how unbelievable and poorly conceived their characters thoughts seem.

And who says they don’t like stream of consciousness, anyway? It’s the dominant mode of narration, these days. I should think it would be hard to get around it.

I need help with how the idea of false consciousness undermined a working class.

Was it like kind of having the working class get an education but not too much education so the colonizer stayed above in power?

Im trying to get some ideas for my paper and I was a bit confused.

False consiousness is when people have the inability to comprehend their roles.
I believe, in the working class false consiousness would cause people (or workers) to have a lack of understanding of their positions or roles in the workplace / society.

If the working class can get an education, then they may not understand their roles properly, and feel alone in their plight. I believe it was karl Marx who also suggested another theroy,
that the working class needs to also develop class consiousness too, in order to have a proper understanding of ones position within the working system.

hopefully this helps you out a bit, and good luck with the paper
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I’ve seen it over and over. When someone criticizes the Right’s plans, step one is to argue that the critic "doesn’t know what they’re talking about" as they likely not wealthy or a business owner.
However when the same things are pointed out by people who ARE wealthy or ARE business owners, the Right seems to regard these people as some kind of traitors. As if to ask, "Who’s side are you on, anyway?" or "What’s your real agenda?"
This to be seems to indicate that the Right very MUCH has class consciousness, and perhaps more so than the Left. What say you?

oh God, and don’t get them started on George Soros…

you could sit here all day listing bad things that corporations have done and they would just ask you "why are you so jealous?"… yet mention soros and they’ll make a big list of things he’s done… lol… I guess they’re "jealous?"

Show comparison to another level of consciousness you have experienced in your answer, please.

I’m not really sure. Definitely more in tune with things than in the past. Just over this past summer I was a different person, spiritually at least. I was constantly debating how I felt about god’s existence, what the nature of god would be, really dealing in black and white with my spirituality. I had, what some would call, a spiritual experience back in July. It meant nothing at first but, over time, it settled in. And now I feel like I understand the spiritual nature of things more.

Also, it perhaps show a sign of will which is based on a motive.

Without that, an inanimate object otherwise considered not alive, however possessing consciousness, would also be considered alive.

Is it fair to draw the line for living consciousnesses at having motive, self-awareness, and direction?

It means we are requiring a consciousness to have an ego to exist. Is it necessary to have ego to exist?

So many questions that are easy to answer but difficult to explain. But I’ll ltry.

For consciousness to be alive, in the sense that I think that you mean it, it must be aware of itself.

Curiosity provides motivation (potentials to be explored) as a way for consciousness to be more aware of its own nature – which it desires because it is self-aware.

Ego is a belief construct. It is created when one accepts a belief in separation of itself from itself. It is evidence of a form of insanity – though it may be necessary to accept an ego in order to inhabit a body. I’m not so sure about that one. The more I know, the less impact ego has on my life, so I am coming to believe that ego is not necessary at all – but it is encouraged by current social norms.

Does it cease to exist, and will we ever feel again?

If you are asserting that it ceases to exist, and that we will never feel again, then you must disprove rebirth, reincarnation, heaven, and hell. To assert this is to assert there is no other dimension, and no other universes…. Obviously I want some evidence.

To put it simply, you must disprove anything intangible exists if you’re asserting consciousness ceases to exist, and "we" never feel. Why? Because your argument relies on this statement being false. If it isn’t false, then how can you know for sure?

There is nothing like consciousness after death

This question has always bugged me but how is it that I am subjectively experiencing as a human rather than an animal or anyone else? Why am I aware? Couldn’t everything just operate fine without awareness. What makes me different to everyone else as far as consciousness goes. People say it’s all just the brain but there has to be something more, I mean you can’t just open someone’s brain and say that they are conscious. What is consciousness?

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first define consciousness ?

than explain me, how it is an function of human brain ?

plenty:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=consciousness+human+brain&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Free learning from The Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind

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