The Classica Ion: Griffy The Cooper

The world in which the majority of people live in today is one that for the time being is the summation of many millennia of human thought. Human thought has shaped the world, just as the world shapes human minds. Human intellectual modification of the world throughout time has produced numerous advances for society, but has also produced almost as many challenges for people living in that society. Homo sapiens are just as much animals as any other species present on this planet, yet are distinguishable by their awareness of the world around them and of the other people that they encounter during the course of each of their lives. Empirically, humans exhibit instinctual and physical emotions and drives, but also display the capacity to analyze and critique the world around them as they perceive it. The students in The Secret History delve into the study of the …show more content…
Their studies reveal considerably similar information to the speaker’s comments in “Griffy the Cooper” about what people can and can not fathom about the mysteries of life, humanity, and human …show more content…
The consequence comes when an individual fulfills their need to transcend and breaks the “staves” of their own “tub” that its causal nexus dictates that the resulting events break the “staves” of everyone else’s “tubs” until all that society has built has been unraveled. The students in The Secret History showcase this point to its most literal implementation, as they succeed in releasing themselves from their selves, and that event leads to the unraveling of what they perceive to be their reality, in favor of the illuminating of the the true reality that “Griffy the Cooper” suggests can only be seen by those who