i was looking at this fish tank...

[mitchymitchy]

upon looking at it you see it for what it is...glass and heavy...you add water and think where do i put this?..now there are tables out there too flimsy to support it's weight...now these tables...the same person that would put the fishtank full of water, weighing their equivalent, on a table that they personally would not even think about sitting on with all their weight...they know it cannot support them...and thinking to myself i came to wonder...how do i "understand" that a table will not support me from just looking at it...where did i learn that certain things will not support my weight?..i would guess it had to be when i was 3 or 4...but it begged the question of how many other things in my life have i just been told to "know"?..without even knowing it was being taught...how much have i taken in my socialization to this mass culture?..and how much have i questioned?..have i truly tried to walk my own path?..i guess the point is that i feel people "know" what they have been taught without even knowing they are being taught, even as they watch their high-tech televisions...instead of metaphorically "finding a new way to the waterfall" they trod down tyhe path taken by every other head in the herd, they do not understand the value of thinking on their own...and it scares me to think that i have done this, or let it be done to me...it's all socialization...but is it right?..should we question why we fall into our stereotypical "male" and "female" roles?..even in groups of equality...it is so ingrained for us to "be the guy" or "be the girl"...i'm not saying that everything is like this...but it's out there...and whether you know it or not you have been taught these things...why is it right that we are compelled to perpetuate these these ideas?..

...god i want to change the world...