Blog #2

When I read and annotated Southan’s text for the second time I realized so many different things that I didn’t catch the first time reading the essay. I noticed many more significant quotes and many of the EA’s ideas and thoughts came to light in the text. The first time around, the essay was slightly confusing and I didn’t quite catch onto the EA’s thinking and ideas. Going back a second time, there were many parts of the essay that made much more sense to me, especially at the beginning of the essay where he is first discussing EA’s and their mission. It is a little confusing when you read it the first time, but the second time around you start to notice how the beginning ties into the whole essay. Reading this essay for the second time also made me realize how radical and unethical the EA’s really are, and how much I do not care for their organization or the message that they send. I picked up on so many more of the EA’s quotes and ideas about how they view art. What also majorly aided in my successful reading of this essay was being able to look up a couple words that I was unsure about. Having looked them up using the dictionary on my phone I was better able to understand what they meant, and the concepts and thoughts of the author and EA’s.