Final Project

My final project is done and was quite contraversal. Most agreed wanting equality, but the means to get there was the debate. Some believe in programs that elevate specific groups, but these same people refuse to see how these programs keep others from succeeding. My goal was to show how people are ingrained with many different identities, but most were stuck on one observation of a small group among a larger group. This is the most valuable thing about this project, I learned that people are not as interested in the merit of what they believe, as they are in holding on to that belief. This project has always been about Identity, however, I was illustrating how identities are forced on us and we should question those. What I learned was that questioning your identity makes people extrememly scared. I think the thought of having to decide what is right and wrong, rather than having it told to them is uncomprehendable to most. If they question their beliefs and discover those beliefs are wrong, then they will no longer fit into a popular comfy group. This could mean losing friends and re-assessing their own values, and this scares the shit out of people, and that is what I learned during classroom discussion of this piece. This complacent attitude is what made genocides and opression possible. If a person can sway enough of a group then the rest will fall into line, as to avoid being different and disliked. Heavy lesson to learn from creating an animation, but there it is. Powerful groups in our society exert economical and social forces on us before we are even born, and if at all, most stumble upon it to late in life, or are tho freightened of the consequences of their discover. Those who "Rock the Boat" by pointing these out, only spotlight the illusions that many have built their life and identiy apon. It is fascinating that people can live their lives in illusion. This is what this piece is trying to convey.