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Oct. 5th, 2003 11:11 amIn preschool and first grade we're taught what the world looks like.
We know people don't look like stick figures. We know the sun's not a perfect circle with lines coming out of it. We know a house isn't a one-dimensional box with a triangle roof and a smoking rectangle chimney.
Yet we go with it, because all our peers are drawing this way, because our teachers and parents encourage this. We are too young and inexperienced to stand up and support the truth we know. In fact, we even begin to question if what we see is truth, or if the stick figures we're told are people are the truth.
Some people don't question, and find safety and comfort in being told to color within the lines. A house is a box with a triangle roof. People are stick figures.
Those of us who do question spend our adult lives unlearning. Sweeping out the doctrines forced on us by society as children and young adults.
>;-)
We know people don't look like stick figures. We know the sun's not a perfect circle with lines coming out of it. We know a house isn't a one-dimensional box with a triangle roof and a smoking rectangle chimney.
Yet we go with it, because all our peers are drawing this way, because our teachers and parents encourage this. We are too young and inexperienced to stand up and support the truth we know. In fact, we even begin to question if what we see is truth, or if the stick figures we're told are people are the truth.
Some people don't question, and find safety and comfort in being told to color within the lines. A house is a box with a triangle roof. People are stick figures.
Those of us who do question spend our adult lives unlearning. Sweeping out the doctrines forced on us by society as children and young adults.
>;-)
