A snoop into Mo

  Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”  This  statement,  especially  in  this  day  and  age,  is  profoundly  true,  and  my  agreement  on  this  transcendence just   my  worldview, it  comes  from  my  personal  experience  as  well.      I personally have seen the application of this firsthand. For me, I was a part of the 2019 Sudanese revolutionary protest when I was younger, which were a set of protests targeted at removing the dictatorship of Omar el-Bashir and removing the corrupt military-led government, and transitioning towards a civilian-led country. The protest itself, from both within and outside the country, was monumental enough to get Bashir to step d...

   I can confidently say most of the students in our school use TikTok and/or instagram, some more than  others. Depending on who you are and how hectic your scheudal is, your screen time on those app’s can vary from 10 minutes to 10 hours, hopefully, not much of the time is spent mindlessly scrolling, but if it is, have you asked your self why?  We rarely stop to ask why we’re scrolling. These social media apps have become our “default setting” similar to what Wallace has explained in his commencement speech “this is water”,  the unconscious belief that life revolves around us, just like how social media encourages us to scroll, post, and compare without ever questioning what we’re actually paying attention it -  Psychologist Jean Twenge’s research on teen screen time supports Wallace’s warning in This Is Water : when we stop choosing how to think, we let technology shape how we feel. She states that  “If we don’t pay attention to how technology is sh...

     Most memorials are attributed to remembrance of an event in the past (obviously), but in our more modern world, in which technologies and lifestyles have changed dramatically in the last 30 - 40 years, memorials have also seen a new architectural style emerging with these times.       Modernism and Minimalism are a new yet criticized design approach. A really good example, which I feel encapsulates what I am saying, is the Peter Eisenman memorial , a cenotaph  to pay homage to the Jews murdered in Europe. The monument itself consists of 2,711 concrete slabs, each with a different height. According too author Yiling Shen, “The project confronts the idea of the memorial as a space for remembering a specific event, instead creating a landscape that begins to take on its own meaning and individual interpretations.” (Shen) What I really like about this monument is that the design approach itself is intentionally used to create unease, and that une...