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The Art of Being Human - Welcome Video - Duration: 16:20.
Alexa, what's on the calendar today? Today there
is one event remaining at 6 a.m. there's record anthropology class opening
video.
So before we get started today, you should probably know like two things
about me. number one: I hate being on camera. I just freak out looking into
this lens and don't normally talk like this. I also don't usually like lay down
on the table. Two: I love teaching anthropology. Um that'll explain why I'm
laying on a table. Anthropology is a science of human beings. It's also the
art of being human. And pursuing the art of being human and helping others pursue
it, that's what I love to do. But it's never been easy. My life's journey looks
something like this: each major new endeavor in life is marked by a fork in
the road. Beyond this is a mountain; the mountains of fear. And before each
mountain is a river; the rivers of doubt. And just before the doubt and the fear
is a smooth green path leading somewhere else. When I first started college I had
a hunger to travel the world, meet new people, and learn from them. But I could
hear the rivers of doubt saying, "you've never traveled! You're an introvert,
you're not good at meeting people!" I thought maybe I should just go to
business school and make money. But my love was greater than my fear and I
majored in anthropology. I went on to graduate school. I had to rewrite my
first paper seven times. After the sixth time my professor handed that paper
back to me, the rivers of doubt were screaming, "you can't write! You can't
write!" I thought maybe I should just take the easy road, but my love was greater
than my doubt and I made it through my classes. Then it was time to do fieldwork.
I would have to travel halfway around the world to a remote village with no
electricity or running water and live with people I'd never met. Three weeks in,
I was breaking down. I thought maybe I should just go home
and play it safe, but my love was greater than my fear and I finished my fieldwork.
Then I got my first job. I was a professor now and I felt the need to be
and act like a professor should act, teach like a professor should teach. I thought
maybe I should just follow the traditional model of success, but my love
was greater than my need for success and I redefine success on my own terms. And
now 12 years later I face another new thing:
higher ed is changing. The world is changing. The way we communicate, educate,
and share is changing. The rivers of doubt are screaming out to me, "you've
never been on camera! You've never made videos like this!" And the mountain of
fear trembles saying, "you know if you fail everybody will see it." The green
path leads to the same old routine. I could rest on my laurels, coast through the rest
of my life. But my love is greater than my doubt and greater than my fear.
But just like every mountain I faced before
there's bound to be a rough start. What you're about to see is a rough start.
Good morning class. Big day today, our first day of anthropology class. I'm on
roller blades just to get my mind off the fact that I'm looking into a camera,
which just feels really weird to me and I'm scared of it. So anthropology is the study
of all humans and all times in all places. There's a hill up ahead. It's
about 1,200 feet long and so we're going to pretend like it's a 12,000 year
timeline. So here was the plan: anthropology is the study of all humans
in all times in all places. So I wanted to give you a sense of the grand sweep
of human history and where we are today. So the plan was to speed down this hill
on roller blades, getting faster and faster to represent the speed of change.
Then turning around the corner at the bottom of the hill to show the
tremendous population growth after the Industrial Revolution. So my actual path
would look like this. Here's what a slows test run with the drone looked like.
What I had not really accounted for was fear. And so we're going to
pretend like it's a 12,000 year timeline so each foot is going to be... each foot is
going to be 10 years. That I could not move a decimal point one position at the top
of the hill was a bad sign. Something really dramatic happens right about the
time that we cross the 12,000 year mark. Somebody starts planting their own
food. Once they start doing this they no
longer how to move around to get their food. They can start to settle down and
their settlements start to get bigger. So then by 9,000 years ago the first cities
are appearing. As we speed forward 8,000 years ago people no longer have to do the
same thing. They can all do different things.So they start innovating. 6,000 years
ago we have the first cities.
Then after these cities start to grow -Halfway down, the lecture was completely falling
apart. You'll notice - But I was determined to
try to save it. By 2,000 years ago ago and as we head -
as we hit the corner part of history
population explodes!
I gotta go home. You tore up your leg pretty bad. Yeah, oh man.
I'm getting dizzy. The things I'm going to do for this class. Oh god. Morning everybody.
Welcome to the first day of anthropology class. This is Rosemary my assistant I'm
going to go home and clean up. In retrospect, I think the crash might have
been totally appropriate. For some reason I can't breathe. I mean really, what lies
around this curve is a totally different way of life. Before the curve people
depended on family and community. This provided them with a sense of meaning
and purpose. It's not just technology that's different on the other side of
the curve, it's our economy, society, politics, culture, our religion even the
basic questions of life. For the first time along this timeline there are three
questions that very few asked before the turn and now everybody is asking: Who am
I, what am I going to do, am I going to make it? And with global warming,
environmental degradation, global inequality, terrorism, super-bugs, and
nuclear weapons we're faced with three sister questions
as well: who are we, what are we going to do, are we going to make? These are the
questions of anthropology. This is that higher purpose I was talking about
earlier. The signs of human beings, the art of being human has never been more
important.
I do have a beautiful view. I tell you this hurts like hell. Yeah I gotta go bye
bye, I gotta go try again. This is George.
I've learned a from him. That's what you taught me, when you fall down you got to
get back up. Remember when you used to go down the stairs? "If you're not where you
are, if you're not where you want to be, if you don't have what you want to
have, if you're not where you think you should be at this particular place it
has nothing to do with the system but it has everything to do with the fact that
you're not making the sacrifice." And you used to get right back up and keep trying?
"Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be
a part of your prize, a part of your product.
I challenge you to push yourself."
And I did that on one time. Yeah? And then you finally did it.
"Listen to me, you gonna be here one day but you'll never get here you if give
up. If you give in, if you quit, it finally won. You've got to want to
succeed as bad as you wanna breathe." And now you can jump oh and now you can jump down
the stairs yay! All right we're going to try this
again. A human body is kind of amazing. I crashed just like an hour ago,
and here I am again back on my roller blades. I love teaching, but I don't really feel
like a professor. A collared shirt feels like a costume to me, but I love putting
it on because it means I get to go stand in my sacred spot and do what I love
to do. That's Brennan, one of my interns. All right, you want to start recording on
that one? Are we live? Have I told you about how sacred this room is to me? No. So when
I was I suppose your guys's age I would sit right here and the room used to be
this way and this was actually the first place I sat when I came to k-state, it was
my first class ever and I sat here and like this guy went up
on stage he had like this you know white hair white beard and he just started
like blowing my mind with questions I never asked before. And three years
later I was in Papua New Guinea traveling the world and that's how I
became an anthropologist. So like, so I kind of see like this spot as like my sacred
spot and it's kind of amazing that I get to come back here and teach from here
now. So after 20 years of studying anthropology and 12 years of teaching
anthropology, I came to the idea that you could actually organize all of
anthropology into 10 big ideas. Your syllabus is actually organized around
these 10 lessons so I'm just going to play a short clip from the moment that I
kind of thought of these 10 big ideas. This is going to be a scene from
class when we when I actually teach from my sacred spot here. Imagine never
being bored again.That's what college is really all about. It's not just about getting
a job, it's about learning all kinds of stuff
so that the world becomes alive and you might actually purposely not open your
phone every time you have a moment because you just want to be with the
world. Let's put that as the ultimate goal of the class. So you got this
syllabus and the syllabus is a little different. I'm trying to create a journey
for you. It's not just a series of topics, there's a real journey. We study all
these different people around the world and I think wow there are nine big ideas
that I think can change your life and I just want to read the syllabus with you.
People are different. These differences
represent the vast range of human potential and possibility. Our
assumptions, beliefs, values, ideas, ideals, even our abilities are largely a product
of our culture. We might respond to such differences with hate or ignorance, or we
can choose to open up to them and ask questions we have never considered
before. When we open up to such questions we put ourselves in touch with our
higher nature. It was questioning, making connections, and trying new things that
brought us down from the trees and took us to the moon.
It is not easy to see our assumptions. our most basic assumptions are embedded
in the basic elements of our everyday lives. Our language, our routines and
habits, our technologies. We create our tools and then our tools create us.
Most of what we take as reality is a cultural construction, realized through our unseen
unexamined assumptions of what is right, true, or possible. We fail to examine our
assumptions not just because they're hard to see, but also because they are
safe, comfortable, They allow us to live with a flattering illusion that, "I am the
center of the universe and what matters are my immediate needs and desires." Our
failure to move beyond such a view has led to the tragedy of our times: that we
are more connected than ever, yet feel and act more disconnected. Memorizing
these ideas is easy; living them takes a lifetime of practice.
Fortunately, the heroes of all time have walked before us. They show us the path.
They show us that collectively, we make the world. Understanding how we make the world, how
it could be made or understood differently, is the road toward realizing our full human potential.
It is the road to true freedom. So after 12 years of teaching in this class, I
had a revelation that you can't just think your way into a new way of living;
you have to live your way into a new way of thinking. So each of the ten lessons
is paired with a challenge that will allow you to live your way into this new
way of thinking. Talking to strangers, fieldwork of the familiar, trying
something new, word weaving, the un-thing, get uncomfortable, encounter somebody
different from you, find humans that made your stuff, and then find your own inner
hero and write your manifesto. We got a whole team that's going to help you along
the way.
Brennan, Mallory, Rosemary, Carlie, Bailey, and Ashley. And we
got a whole team of other folks traveling the world. My name is Ben and
I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hi my name's Matt and I'm in Barcelona, Spain. I'm Amy
and I'm headed to Samoa.
If you're officially enrolled you have been automatically assigned to one of
these TAs. They'll be your inspiration and guide throughout the course. Go to
Anth 101 to start your own journey. You can follow along with the course, see
what your TAs are up to, and even see what your fellow students are posting.
And when you're ready, take a challenge. The class is organized into ten lessons and
ten challenges. There'll be a new video every day at 3:00 p.m. Here's the lesson
plan for each lesson: on day one, an intro video plus a chapter to be read. The
textbook is free at Anth101.com/book. On day two you'll have a challenge
inspiration video. That will get you excited about doing the challenge and
help you along the way. Day three and onward for the whole
lesson we'll watch great videos together. One new video, some sort of documentary,
or movie every day. And on the last day, you post your challenge. If you're
officially enrolled your quizzes and discussions will be due at midnight the
next business night. Your challenges will be do the day after the last day of the
lesson. See canvas for the exact due dates.
So as for me, I have my own challenge: staring down my fears, making a video a
day for each of the 40 days of class. I'll see you at Anth101.com
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