Module 2

Unpacking the Self

 CONTENTS
Lesson 1- My body. My choice
Lesson 2- Let’s talk about Sex
Lesson 3- Forget about the Price Tag
Lesson 4- Do good. Do God.
Lesson 5- My Socio-political Self
Lesson 6- Am I a Cyborg?
Lesson 1
My body. My choice
My body is my own responsibility, a person need not to waste time
on someone else’s property.
Society has been setting standards on what ideal beauty is,
but this is not true at all times, because beauty in it self is subject,
therefore we have varying degrees of beauty. A person may like the
color pink due to its bubbliness, and a person may like the color
black because of its formality and boldness, that’s why we have no
right to judge someone’s body and we have no jurisdiction to
command them so.
That is why it is imperative to point out people that body
shames other people, because this can affect someone’s self-
esteem and may even lead to depression if is progressively faced
with such vindicating slurs.
 Lesson 2
Lets talk about Sex
 Sex is a mode of reproduction for us humans, and
also means of building a healthy relationship to your partner.
Sex has a lot of euphoric effects to one’s body and because of
this, it becomes addicting and eventually intoxicates our
minds, because of this, some teenagers would involve
themselves in these things and is oftentimes doing it unsafe.
In our country alone, there has been a sudden jolt of
teenage pregnancy in the pandemic, this is due to improper
sex practices. Another culprit for this is the poor education of
sex towards the younger generation, what happens is that a
cascade would start, unless the system would start changing it
self from the ground up to aid the younger generation.
Lesson 03
Forget about the
Price Tag
 As I have done the activity, I realized how lucky I was
to have parents that can provide the things that I wanted.
Though I had experienced strokes of poverty, I still got to eat
what I wanted. This experience of mine is indicative of how our
government and business conglomerates manipulate the
minds of the marginalized.
We are opted to work until we slowly degrade our
bodies to exhaustion and this overworking and
overexploitation needs to be addressed, because everyone
deserves the sum of money that their bodies and time paid for.
Though in economics its already been indicated that
there will be never enough opportunities given to an individual,
but this should never be a good reason to keep these
opportunities in bare.
 Lesson 4
Do good. Do God.
I was once a religious person, I attended all church activities and such, though I
have not read the scriptures in a systematic manner, I still understood the doctrines
and implications of said doctrines. I was invigorated that God has stored treasures
for good people.
Yet as I progressed towards living, I sensed a repeating pattern of doubt,
which made me question my existence and God’s existence, the time spent in the
pandemic made me realize things that his omnipotence is not as evenly distributed
as I would presumed it before. The very concept of having God, is that you are
reminded that you are being watched and that you’re actions are accountable not
only this world but also in the other, but in my perspective it’s all to convenient for an
explanation.
In the end I have concluded myself not to be an atheist, I still acknowledge
having an All-seeing being, but I ultimately believe that our existence is meaningless,
that the laws of the physical world would prevail and would eventually lead to
nothingness. That’s why in our lives, we seek the meaning of our selves, of our
existence, despite knowing that the end is always there, that we will eventually be
forgotten in due time.
Lesson 5
My Socio-polotical self
 In the current government, we have seen the shades of inequality
and rampant manipulation of power. Some may say that they are neutral or
with the government, but I refuse to such convenient option, for I have seen
how the people suffered.
A tricycle driver in a good day can acquire at least 300 pesos, but
the current prices of goods does not permit for the full acquisition of their
needs, this also thought still hasn’t included all of their needs. In the back of
your head you may say, “well it’s their fault ending up as low-waged workers”,
this thinking is the very reason of the destabilization of democracy within our
country, because the government should create “safety nets” to people such
as they, because in order to have a functioning society, we need everyone to
work be it a taxing a job or not.
You can utterly see the failure of this government to respond on the
needs of the people, my socio-political self does not permit for such
discrimination. That is why we should seek out the best in the bunch, a leader
who’s empathetic towards the marginalized and has the resolve to create
change, no more empty worded promises, no more heresy, choose someone
capable of improving the lives of everyone
Lesson 6
Am I a Cyborg?
One my slowly sense a dystopian shift within the advancement of
humanity, what have been flooded innumerable unnecessary information,
we are being brainwashed to the trend of society, we are being slowly
manipulated by the puppeteers in the background, and you may ask
yourself, “am I a cyborg?”
Sometime in the future, we can no longer distinguish what is real
and virtual. This world slowly filled with the wonders of technology is now in
a crash course to instability as we’re slowly being replaced by far superior
AIs (Artificial Intelligence) or by advanced cybernetics optimizes everything
without loss.
You may say that the future is hopeless for humanity, but this is
untrue, There are aspects in our lives where no robot can replace you, that
it is unnecessary to be overrun the march of the machines. By keeping
things in the middle, we can continue living as the human beings that we
are and still continue to do the wonders of life.