Echoing the words, of a story or an example.
A girl is placed, since the day of birth in a particular culture. Where she is isolated from all other types of knowledge. She is planted with thoughts that people who are not her family are considered to be outsiders and not needed to be given attention. She is raised by Roman Catholic beliefs. She is not allowed to associate herself with men boys or men. She is taught to always be curteous and polite. She is taught that the women's place is always in the house, never in the working environtment. She is taught to always obey the men and that as a woman girl she is not entitled to to an education.
Then after 25 years of her life in that kind of isolated environment. She is brought out to the 'real' world. Where people do interact with one another. There are more than just one beliefe system. The women fight for their rights. No they are not meant to be the slaves of men, and no others in need of help are not just the ones of the same blood.
Did she adapt to all these changes? Or did she stay with her same attitude and mentality?
I write about this because of late, i rather relate this to what goes around me. Do people really change after being influenced by a particular discourse for so long? All the ideas that have been implanted to them. Do they stay like a the flower in bloom, or do they wither and die and bring forth a new flower. A new idea, a new identity?
Are people sometimes really like the saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"? I have in no mind to believe that people are always in their dumb state of mind ways. They have been blessed with a brain and they can think, for all that is good to them. Yet sadly there is also the group, who prefer their comfort zone and do not wish to think otherwise. They refuse to hear criticism, they refuse to hear other opinions, thoughts and what could be ultimately truth and reality.
So do people just absorb like a sponge what the see and hear throughtout the years? And when they do, do they take everything into account? Or just consider, oh the stuff i learnt before is all good. The stuff I hear about now and see are all bad, bad bad!....
Teach the ol' dog, new stuff.
Once again, cultural studies has over taken my brain (as it should be at least for this year). Stepping into class yet again, we are given the medicine by our lovely lecturers, and the name of the bottle is called..."Where is your brain?".
When I was younger, I actually did stop to wonder as how is it possible that I understand what is being said to me? How is the words that are unseen can actually make sense to me even though they are not before my eyes? Why is it that certain words actually do have different meanings but i can discern which is which and able to put it into application?
Yes.. and then after thinking all that. I go MAD! Because then nothing makes sense.
It is of course another level all together too much for my comprehension.
Naturally, science has to come in to play and guess what it is called cultural science. So they will then find some factual and comprehensive way that states 'oh this is actually how it starts and how it works'. They have to say stuff like this, oh you think this way and behave like that because of the environment you brought up in, the social construct of your society which has all its own cultures..bla, bla, bla...
Then the question becomes "But are you shaped from all that?" Or are you your own person that is able to make your own decision. Is your mind, the place where ideology and all other crap that is instilled to you, an active one or a passive one?
In the end there isn't an answer for that. Because then it becomes a paradox. You can't say that when you listen to something, you disagree with it and therefore you are active or you agree with it therefore you are passive. If it were so simple, you and I wouldn't need a brain. You shall forever be, in some ways my opinion, a combo of active and passive thinking. Probably it is when you stop bothering to make a decision then you can be considered a passive person. But on the other hand you have just made a decision to not make a decision so technically you are also active. See the vicious ridiculous cycle here...and we have to LEARN stuff like this?
So in the end when you actually make a statement from your own opinion, is it really you discerning from everything you have learnt in your whole life, your experiences and what not...Or something else..?
You tell me my active or passive buddy...hehehehe.......
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I don't know why i did that! I'm passively active!