In my book Nicholas Again by Goscinny. There are subtle vibes trying to get us to live the "proper" way that people think is right. Just by the way all the teachers act and punish kids for goofing around is secretly trying to tell us the "right" way to live.
Nicholas and his friends don't try to get in trouble but they just can't help it. THEY'RE JUST SMALL KIDS that like to mess with each other and roughhouse. This way of living has been put upon us by all the adults that run our lives. Teachers, parents, government people. They all have been told that it's proper and the right thing to chew with your mouth closed, or to not put your elbows on the table. And they pass it down to us. This way of living hasn't been around forever, it was created by a group of people at some time in history. Think about it cavemen sure didn't live like this. Native americans didn't live like this. It somehow formed over time and has made it's way all around the world to many families.
But if we didn't have these kids or people that break these rules than there wouldn't be any creativity in the world and today wouldn't be today at all if people like Albert Einstein or Galileo didn't disobey what was said and found all of these scientific facts. We would still think the Earth was flat and that you would fall off if you reach the end. Or we wouldn't know that there was actually a universe of millions of stars and hundreds if not thousands of planets.
Without these people disobeying what was right we wouldn't be nearly as advanced as we are today and everybody would probably being wearing a suit and a tie with no expression on their face and their tear ducts dry. Who knows?
AGREE!
ReplyDeleteyea I definitely think about that a lot. i mean, personalites define us, and sometimes it seems like adults are trying to take that away. What happens is what happens. i am trying to think of a good way to explain how well i understand you, but I think i will only confuse myself.
here is something I feel kind of connects with it though. What you do, is what you do. if einstein wasn't creative the whole world would be different. but he did, and if people don't take initiative, even if it ends up getting in to trouble...did that help? maybe not. im confused now myself.
good post,
dea :)
wow ames, that totally was not what I posted about last week. Though your ideas on a need for those to disobey seems good, a perfect eutopia would not need them because A) it is a eutopia and B) It would not need them
ReplyDeleteAnd then comes the Hipster. No, but I completely and utterly agree with you on how new generations seem to shrug off older customs. It just makes you wonder what would've happened if some people in history hadn't spoken up.
ReplyDeletereally, i don't think the fact that galileo had to chew with his mouth closed made him defy the catholic church. these rules are frustrating yes but i don't think famous people throughout history got their motivation to do what they did because of some basic rules or even nationwide laws. Galileo could just have wanted science to progress, maybe he wasn't some spiteful adult that got a rush from breaking the church's laws.
ReplyDeleteDante I never said anything about Galileo chewing with his mouth closed made him disobey the catholic church
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting discussion. I wish you guys had gone further with it! Ames, here's a question: Is there a difference between etiquette and what's truly "right"? You say that the Native Americans didn't live this way, but Native Americans certainly *did* (and do) have other forms of socially acceptable behavior. And cavemen? Well, our civilization has moved past that way of living, and I don't think many people would want to give up the comforts of society in exchange for living in caves. . . right?
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