As I cast a storm over your social norms
June 28th 2008 11:36
For most of us, it happens too fast for us to notice it. We get sucked in to the latest list of expectations placed on us by society, expecting them to be holding some truth - if only that the expectations are worth following and abiding by.
After being sucked in, we are swirled around the mouthpiece on the face of society (for the purposes of this article, we'll say its a mannikin), grateful that we've passed the entrance. The teeth didn't close on us this time. Things are a bit claustrophobia-inducing, but everyone's representing the same collective conscience so at least we're on a similar wavelength.
As we touch the tip of the throat, the mannikin of society seems to have some kind of reflux, spewing us forth back to where we came from.
It could be just what the doctor ordered, a flight from those who think in a like mind and forced into the world outside your square. Something experiential. It could also be worth a note that you were dismissed from your square of influence for a reason - a degeneration of the mind from too much repetitivity or negativity perhaps?
As the thought processes and judgements we have developed over time are now in the process of degeneration, it may be time to take a look back and reflect. Why did everything come to nothing?
One grand old example of social norms and what they mean for our society is the question, what attracts the opposite sex? For the men of the guerilla-warfare towns of Colombia, its petrol and guns that bring the women home. For the men and women of Afghanistan, its a plentiful supply of opium and guns. For the more developed countries, it is having a certain level of social capital and some money on the side that brings home the boots.
Social norms are not the same the world over, but the norms set by more influential parts of the world can have a devestating effect on the more powerless people of the earth. The media plays an exceptionally powerful part, for example having recently made half the human race believe it is the Arabian dons who have set the oil price so high. I'm the type to believe it is the greed of Western civilisation that creates such problems, and you would be hard pressed to tell me otherwise. Regardless, the west's social norm of "Mo' money mo' money" is once again upheld as righteous and those in the way as... well, in the way.
So c'mon, shake it off. Everyone on my side of the fence can tell you'd be better off without it.
Who decided all this was normal anyway?
After being sucked in, we are swirled around the mouthpiece on the face of society (for the purposes of this article, we'll say its a mannikin), grateful that we've passed the entrance. The teeth didn't close on us this time. Things are a bit claustrophobia-inducing, but everyone's representing the same collective conscience so at least we're on a similar wavelength.
As we touch the tip of the throat, the mannikin of society seems to have some kind of reflux, spewing us forth back to where we came from.
It could be just what the doctor ordered, a flight from those who think in a like mind and forced into the world outside your square. Something experiential. It could also be worth a note that you were dismissed from your square of influence for a reason - a degeneration of the mind from too much repetitivity or negativity perhaps?
As the thought processes and judgements we have developed over time are now in the process of degeneration, it may be time to take a look back and reflect. Why did everything come to nothing?
One grand old example of social norms and what they mean for our society is the question, what attracts the opposite sex? For the men of the guerilla-warfare towns of Colombia, its petrol and guns that bring the women home. For the men and women of Afghanistan, its a plentiful supply of opium and guns. For the more developed countries, it is having a certain level of social capital and some money on the side that brings home the boots.
Social norms are not the same the world over, but the norms set by more influential parts of the world can have a devestating effect on the more powerless people of the earth. The media plays an exceptionally powerful part, for example having recently made half the human race believe it is the Arabian dons who have set the oil price so high. I'm the type to believe it is the greed of Western civilisation that creates such problems, and you would be hard pressed to tell me otherwise. Regardless, the west's social norm of "Mo' money mo' money" is once again upheld as righteous and those in the way as... well, in the way.
So c'mon, shake it off. Everyone on my side of the fence can tell you'd be better off without it.
Who decided all this was normal anyway?
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