Ancient Egypt was a magnificent civilization. Using the chance of having natural boundaries, they developed very organically and also slowly. We must take some of the good examples of Egypt and apply them in our life, but there are other concepts that we should learn and avoid to do it in the future, in the other words, we learn from their mistakes. In this journal I will talk about three important ideas these are, the concept of globalization, the concept of isolation, and also the contrast of those two concepts.
Globalization is defined as the process by which business or other organizations stars operating on a global scale. In the other words, it means that the world is trying to equalize the world so that the globe shares the same ideas, worldviews, can concepts. The goal of globalization is to control everybody mostly through media. One of the examples of globalization from the media is Facebook. Facebook allows us to connect with the all the people around the world to share and express their thought to someone through making the comments. By receiving ideas from the international network we would likely to follow them because of the trends. For the self application, from now on, I will make sure that Facebook are only for socializing, but they are not to change any personality from me. I must stand strong on my conviction.
Isolation is one of the good examples we can follow from the Ancient Egypt civilization. They are isolated by force of the natural boundaries around them. This isolation helps them to develop very organically meaning that it’s not affected by any other culture or civilization. By isolating ourselves we can easily build our own self identity so that other people can’t change my life through their bad comments. For the self application, I will decide that I will make time for me to practice isolation by not opening my Facebook on school days. I will obey whenever my authorities forbid me to hang out with my friends, because I see that my parents are my natural boundaries that will also help me to build my strong identity through isolation.
These two concepts of globalization and isolation contradict each other. The process of globalization is trying to erase our self identity and make us equal with the world, but on the other hand, the process of isolation will help us to build our self identity. We can see that the benefit of having isolation is to become magnificent just like the Ancient Egypt civilization. For the self application, I must spend more time my self rather than being with my friends. I realize that the process of globalization also could affect us through my friends by commenting on us directly rather than from the media of Facebook. I should practice more to be isolated so that I don’t feel bad when I’m isolated.
For the conclusion, having isolation will build us organically, but the process of globalizations is trying to conquer our worldview, ideas, and also concept so that we will blend in with the world today. But by being organically developed, we will become a magnificent person just like the Ancient Egypt that builds their civilization organically. I will try to isolate myself so that I could become a magnificent person.