Good Call on the summaries and realizations of the articles. I felt the same way on many of the points. My question is, is this a bad thing? Also, if it is, then how can we fix it? Can we fix it at all? Or is this as instinctive as breathing and peeing? I mean it is said that children get to know their own identities within a year or two of birth. Everything after they figure out who they are is then compared to them. Anything different is categorized and labeled. For instance, say getting a great grade on a final is like being fat and getting a bad grade on a final is like being skinny. Well your first final/test you have no idea how to quantify a fat test from a skinny test. Call a bad test black and a good one white. Until after you have already had a first test to compare, you have no idea what is black and what is white. But once you get a grasp of knowledge, aka yourself(1st test), then you can perceive the rest to be fat, skinny, black, white, gay, straight, etc.
What I am getting at is maybe trying to rid the world of judgements is like trying to rid us of an instinct that we simply cannot lose. We might be fighting a losing battle. Is judging and naming someone always bad? you see in the gawking, and staring piece that he even characterizes people. He calls the circus twins different names to give us a picture of what they look like. That may simply be what we are doing when we categorize someone based on looks or appearance. Its an image that we fuze into our heads because of instinct.
Good Call on the summaries and realizations of the articles. I felt the same way on many of the points. My question is, is this a bad thing? Also, if it is, then how can we fix it? Can we fix it at all? Or is this as instinctive as breathing and peeing? I mean it is said that children get to know their own identities within a year or two of birth. Everything after they figure out who they are is then compared to them. Anything different is categorized and labeled. For instance, say getting a great grade on a final is like being fat and getting a bad grade on a final is like being skinny. Well your first final/test you have no idea how to quantify a fat test from a skinny test. Call a bad test black and a good one white. Until after you have already had a first test to compare, you have no idea what is black and what is white. But once you get a grasp of knowledge, aka yourself(1st test), then you can perceive the rest to be fat, skinny, black, white, gay, straight, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am getting at is maybe trying to rid the world of judgements is like trying to rid us of an instinct that we simply cannot lose. We might be fighting a losing battle. Is judging and naming someone always bad? you see in the gawking, and staring piece that he even characterizes people. He calls the circus twins different names to give us a picture of what they look like. That may simply be what we are doing when we categorize someone based on looks or appearance. Its an image that we fuze into our heads because of instinct.